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Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston, Lincolnshire: historic market town and port on the River Witham (the Haven) in the Fens. Medieval England's leading wool port after London, home of the Boston Stump, Pilgrim Fathers link, and the Boston Barrier flood defense.
Bostrichidae
Bostrichidae (false powderpost beetles, auger beetles), family Latreille 1802 of Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea; cylindrical wood-boring beetles 2–15 mm with concealed heads; includes lesser and larger grain borers, major pests of stored grain and timber.
Bostrychia
Bostrychia is a genus name shared by two organisms: Bostrychia Montagne, 1842, a red alga in Rhodomelaceae, and Bostrychia Gray, 1847, an African ibis genus in Threskiornithidae with five species; the names are parahomonyms.
Boswell Energy Center
Boswell Energy Center, also known as the Clay Boswell Plant, is a coal-fired power station on the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, operated by Minnesota Power.
Boswellia
Boswellia (frankincense genus), Burseraceae trees of Africa, Arabia, and India; 25 species; resin contains boswellic acids (AKBA, KBA) inhibiting 5-LOX; studied for osteoarthritis; many species endangered.
Boswellia sacra
Boswellia sacra (Arabian frankincense tree, olibanum) is a 1.5–8 m Burseraceae tree of Somalia, Yemen, and Oman's Dhofar, source of frankincense resin traded since at least 2000 BC; Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
Boswellia serrata
Boswellia serrata (Indian frankincense, Shallaki) is an Indian resin-yielding tree whose boswellic acids, especially AKBA, underpin supplements studied mainly for knee osteoarthritis; evidence is modest and industry-funded.
Boszorkány Dorsa
Boszorkány Dorsa (Boszorkany Dorsa), a 550 km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 19.5°S, 105°E, IAU-approved 2003, named for the Hungarian folklore witch who flies across the sky.
Bot lakhon
Bot lakhon (บทละคร) is the written text of a Thai drama, the script of dialogue and staging conventions behind genres including khon, lakon nai, nang talung, and likay.
Bota Bio (Enhe Bio)
Bota Bio (恩和生物), later Enhe (恩和科技), is a synthetic biology startup founded in Hangzhou, China, in 2019, which raised over $100 million in 2021 and makes enzymes and bio-preservatives.
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, the Glorioso, is a Rio de Janeiro multi-sport club formed 8 December 1942 by merging Club de Regatas Botafogo (1894) and Botafogo Football Club (1904); Brasileirão champion 1968, 1995, 2024 and Libertadores winner 2024, now run as a SAF under John Textor.
Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk
Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk is a Japanese manga series by Hey. It was published since 2019 and its anime adaptation aired 12 episodes in 2026.
Botanic Garden Meise
Botanic Garden Meise (Plantentuin Meise, Agentschap Plantentuin Meise) is a Flemish-managed botanical garden and research institution in Meise, Belgium, founded 1797 in Brussels, moved to its 92-hectare estate in 1938, with a 3-million-specimen herbarium and Belgium's only standard seed bank.
Botanic Garden of University of Valencia
Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia (Jardí Botànic de la Universitat de València), founded 1567 as a medicinal-plant garden, moved to the Huerto de Tramoyeres in 1802; about 4,500 species, 1862 iron greenhouse, BIC since 2006.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), founded 1987, is a UK charity and membership network linking over 1,000 botanic gardens in 100+ countries for plant conservation, leading the Global Tree Assessment and GSPC implementation.
Botanical Building (United States)
Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego: 1915 redwood lath and steel plant exhibit hall by Carleton Winslow under Bertram Goodhue; 250 by 75 by 60 feet; one of four permanent 1915 Exposition structures; restored and reopened December 2024.
Botanical Culture Center
A botanical culture center, often called a visitor education center, is an educational facility at a botanical garden offering indoor exhibits, lectures, and programs on plant science.
Botanical garden
Ботанічний сад (botanical garden): an institution holding documented living plant collections for research, conservation, display, and education; 1,775 gardens in 148 countries, descended from 16th-century Italian physic gardens.
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Orto Botanico di Padova, the University of Padua's botanical garden founded in 1545 as a medicinal "garden of simples"; the world's oldest university botanical garden on its original site, UNESCO-listed since 1997.
Botanical Garden and Parks of Crete
The Botanical Garden and Parks of Crete are living plant collections on the Greek island of Crete, centered on the Botanical Park & Gardens of Crete near Chania.
Botanical Garden Augsburg
Botanical Garden Augsburg (Botanischer Garten Augsburg): municipal botanical garden at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10, founded 1936, about 3,000 plant species on roughly 10 hectares, 250,000 visitors yearly, Japanese garden from 1985.
Botanical garden Carsiana
Giardino Botanico Carsiana, a botanical garden in Sgonico near Trieste, Italy, founded 1964 by Gianfranco Gioitti; 5,000 m2 dolina site with about 600 Karst plant species, region-owned since 2016, managed by Rogos Cooperative.
Botanical Garden FEBRAS
Botanical Garden FEBRAS (Ботанический сад-институт ДВО РАН) is a Vladivostok research institute and botanic garden founded 24 February 1949, with 169.5 ha including 155 ha of protected forest, over 5,000 plant taxa, Amur and Sakhalin branches, and the journal Botanica Pacifica.
Botanical Garden Fribourg
Botanical Garden Fribourg, the university botanical garden of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, was founded in 1937 and presents more than 5,000 plant species on 1.8 hectares.
Botanical garden herbarium
Botanical garden herbarium: a dried, pressed plant specimen collection (hortus siccus) maintained by a botanical garden, registered in Index Herbariorum; documents living collections and regional flora, from Luca Ghini's 1540s herbaria to Kew and NYBG.
Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg
Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg (Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg), Munich's main botanical garden, opened 1914 near Nymphenburg Palace; 21.2 hectares, 16,240 species, 350,000 annual visitors, SNSB member.
Botanical Garden named after Fyodor Rusanov
Tashkent Botanical Garden named after academician F.N. Rusanov (Akademik F.N. Rusanov nomidagi Toshkent botanika bogʻi), a 65-hectare research botanical garden of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences' Institute of Botany in Yunusabad, Tashkent, founded 1950, holding over 4,500 introduced plant taxa.
Botanical Garden of Hokkaido University
Botanical Garden of Hokkaido University (北海道大学植物園), a 13.3-hectare botanical garden in central Sapporo founded in 1886, Japan's first modern botanical garden, holding about 4,000 plant species, historic museum buildings, and Ainu collections.
Botanical Garden of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Botanical Garden of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ботанічний сад ЛНУ ім. І. Франка), founded 1852 by Hiacynth Łobarzewski; two Lviv sites (2 ha and 16.5 ha), ~5,000 taxa, tropical collection of national-heritage status.
Botanical Garden of Naples
The Botanical Garden of Naples (Orto Botanico di Napoli) is the University of Naples Federico II's botanical garden, founded in 1807 and covering almost 12 hectares.