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LSU Hilltop Arboretum, the Glossary

The Hilltop Arboretum at Louisiana State University (14 acres) is an arboretum owned by the Louisiana State University.^[1]

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1929 establishments in Louisiana
Arboreta in Louisiana
Botanical gardens in Louisiana
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Protected areas established in 1929

Acer negundo

Acer negundo, the box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple or ash-leaved maple, is a species of maple native to North America.

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Acer palmatum, commonly known as Japanese maple, palmate maple, or smooth Japanese maple (Korean: danpungnamu, 단풍나무, Japanese: irohamomiji,, or momiji, (栴), is a species of woody plant native to Korea, Japan, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their large variety of attractive forms, leaf shapes, and spectacular colors.

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Acer rubrum

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.

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Acer saccharinum

Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, creek maple, silverleaf maple, soft maple, large maple, water maple, swamp maple, or white maple, is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.

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Acer saccharum

Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

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Aesculus

The genus Aesculus, with species called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae.

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Arboretum

An arboretum (arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species.

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Bamboo

Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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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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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Camellia

Camellia (pronounced or) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Clethra

Clethra is a genus of flowering shrubs or small trees described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

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Halesia

Halesia, also known as silverbell or snowdrop tree, is a small genus of four or five species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae.

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Ilex vomitoria

Ilex vomitoria, commonly known as yaupon or yaupon holly, is a species of holly that is native to southeastern North America.

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Illicium

Illicium is a genus of flowering plants treated as part of the family Schisandraceae, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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Ironwood

Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America.

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Justicia (plant)

Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae.

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Lagerstroemia

Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle (also spelled crepe myrtle or crêpe myrtle), is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia, and other parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world.

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Liquidambar

Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (star gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species.

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Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).

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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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Live oak

Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.

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Loquat

The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, Chinese: 枇杷, pipa) is a large evergreen shrub or tree grown commercially for its orange fruit.

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Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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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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Nave

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Osmanthus fragrans

Osmanthus fragrans, variously known as sweet osmanthus, sweet olive, tea olive, and fragrant olive, is a flowering plant species native to Asia from the Himalayas through the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan in China, Taiwan, southern Japan and Southeast Asia as far south as Cambodia and Thailand.

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Oxydendrum

Oxydendrum arboreum, the sourwood or sorrel tree, is the sole species in the genus Oxydendrum, in the family Ericaceae.

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Pecan

The pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a species of hickory native to the southern United States and northern Mexico in the region of the Mississippi River.

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Persimmon

The persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Pinus echinata

The shortleaf pine or Pinus echinata is a species of coniferous tree endemic to the United States.

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Pinus glabra

Pinus glabra, the spruce pine, is a tree found on the coastal plains of the southern United States, from southern South Carolina south to northern Florida and west to southern Louisiana.

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Privet

A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum.

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Prunus caroliniana

Prunus caroliniana, known as the Carolina laurelcherry, Carolina cherry laurel, Carolina cherry, or Cherry laurel, is a small evergreen flowering tree native to the lowlands of Southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and westward to central Texas.

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Quercus nigra

Quercus nigra, the water oak, is an oak in the red oak group (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native to the eastern and south-central United States, found in all the coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, and inland as far as Oklahoma, Kentucky, and southern Missouri.

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References

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

Also known as Hilltop Arboretum at Louisiana State University.

LSU Hilltop Arboretum, the Glossary

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See also

1929 establishments in Louisiana

Arboreta in Louisiana

Botanical gardens in Louisiana

Louisiana State University buildings and structures

Protected areas established in 1929

References