Tropical Horticulture: Overview 1 Lecture 39 Lecture 39 Overview Overview Salubrious and balmy vs. Hot and steamy There are dramatically apposing attitudes towards the tropics, both anti- and pro-tropic sentiments Cruise ships, waving palms vs. Poisonous snakes & crocs
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Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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Lecture 39Lecture 39OverviewOverview
Salubrious and balmy vs. Hot and steamy
There are dramatically apposing attitudes towards the tropics, both anti- and pro-tropic sentiments
Cruise ships, waving palms vs. Poisonous snakes & crocs
Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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Resorts & retirement havens vs. Slums & shacks
Birth of civilization vs. Uncivilized
Green and bountiful vs. Starvation & malnutrition
Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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Rich in flora vs. Monotonously green
Tea
Cacao
Coffee
Beverage Crops
Avocado
Date
Citrus Banana & Plantain
Papaya Pineapple
Fruits and Nuts
Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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Cassava
Taro Yam
Sweetpotato
Starchy Vegetables
CoconutRubber tree
Industrial Crops
Rice Sugarcane
Grasses
Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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Ginger
Nutmeg
Clove PepperVanilla
Cinnamon
Spices
Bougenvillia
Orchids
Philodendron
Plumeria Poinsettia
Streletzia
Ornamentals
Revolution is the movement of the earth in an elliptical orbit around the sun whose average distance is 93 million miles away. The time to travel 1 orbit = 1 year. During this time there are 365.25 rotations of the earth.
Theory of the Tropics
Celestial Mechanics
Tropical Horticulture: Overview
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ET, tundraEF, icecap
Warmest month below 10°C (50°F)
PolarE
Da, humid continental, warm summerDaw, with dry winterDaf, with no dry season