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Tara
Tara is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species of trees and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from northern Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean, and western South America to Bolivia and Central Chile. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and semi-arid thorn scrub. It belongs to tribe Caesalpinieae of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Anatomy of Plants (Vol. 2)
Nehemiah Grew · 1682 · p.412
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.541
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.130
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.59
Garden of Health
1507 · p.483
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.209
Selected Illustrations of Plants Collected in Japan
Engelbert Kaempfer · 1712 · p.87
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.842
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica
Willem Piso · 1658 · p.285
New Genera of Plants
Pier Antonio Micheli · 1729 · p.323
In the stacks
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Every page naming Tara in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 768538.