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The Crosby Arboretum is located in Picayune, Mississippi, United States, and is affiliated with Mississippi State University.[1]

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  1. 27 relations: AIA Gold Medal, Beech, Bog, Catahoula Creek, Coreopsis, Drainage basin, E. Fay Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hancock County, Mississippi, Hardwood, Holly, List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States, Longleaf pine, Macranthera, Magnolia, Magnolia virginiana, Mississippi State University, Orchid, Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), Persea palustris, Picayune, Mississippi, Pitcher plant, Populus, Savanna, Taxodium distichum, Tupelo (tree), United States.

  2. Arboreta in Mississippi
  3. Botanical gardens in Mississippi
  4. Mississippi State University
  5. Nature reserves in Mississippi

AIA Gold Medal

The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Institute's highest award.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

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Catahoula Creek

Catahoula Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Coreopsis

Coreopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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E. Fay Jones

Euine Fay Jones (January 31, 1921 – August 30, 2004) was an American architect and designer.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

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Hancock County, Mississippi

Hancock County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of Mississippi and is named for Founding Father John Hancock.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Holly

Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States

This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.

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Longleaf pine

The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is a pine species native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida.

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Macranthera

Macranthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.

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Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus Magnolia depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up.

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Magnolia virginiana

Magnolia virginiana, most commonly known as sweetbay magnolia, or merely sweetbay (also laurel magnolia, swampbay, swamp magnolia, white bay, or beaver tree), is a member of the magnolia family, Magnoliaceae.

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Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university in Mississippi State, Mississippi.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana)

The Pearl River is a river in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana.

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Persea palustris

Persea palustris, also known as swamp bay or swampbay, is a small tree or shrub found throughout the Southeastern United States and the Bahamas, with much of its range overlapping with that of its relative Persea borbonia.

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Picayune, Mississippi

Picayune is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States.

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Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants that have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum (baldcypress, bald-cypress, bald cypress, swamp cypress; cyprès chauve; cipre in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae.

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Tupelo (tree)

Tupelo, genus Nyssa, is a small genus of deciduous trees with alternate, simple leaves.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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See also

Arboreta in Mississippi

Botanical gardens in Mississippi

Mississippi State University

Nature reserves in Mississippi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby_Arboretum