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A support organization, Friends of the UCR Botanic Gardens, was established in 1980. A popular bi-annual Botanic Gardens Plant Sale provides greater visibility and community support for the gardens. Collections organized by species. Alder Canyon – California native riparian trees, including azaleas, camellias, hydrangeas and ferns
The history of the University of California, Riverside, or UCR, started in 1907 when UCR was the University's Citrus Experiment Station.By the 1950s, the University had established a teaching-focused liberal arts curriculum at the site, in the spirit of a small liberal arts college, but California's rapidly growing population made it necessary for the Riverside campus to become a full-fledged ...
ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
Cherokee grave found on Bussell Island, Tennessee containing a skeleton and three pottery vessels. Cherokee funeral rites comprise a broad set of ceremonies and traditions centred around the burial of a deceased person which were, and partially continue to be, practiced by the Cherokee peoples.
Navajo song ceremonial complex. The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the lives of the people. One half of the ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way, while the other half is the Enemy Way ( Anaʼí Ndááʼ ).
The 40 acres of the UCR Botanic Gardens is visible from Box Spring Mountain. UCR's academic colleges administer significant museum collections in the arts and sciences. The Citrus Variety Collection constitutes 1,800 trees representing two of each of the 640 types of citrus and 28 other related genera in the family Rutaceae , the largest such ...
The great blue lobelia is a delight in the mid- to late-summer garden. The bright blue flowers of Lobelia siphilitica brighten many perennial beds from July to late September or early October ...
Márohu. God of the moon and of rain, rainstorms, and floods; Boinayel's twin brother. Maketaori Guayaba. The god of Coaybay or Coabey, the land of the dead. Opiyel Guabiron. A dog-shaped god that watched over the dead; often associated with the Greek Cerberus .