Botany

Botany is a very important branch of bioligy, which

studies the plants and the inhabitants that inhabit it.

This is only a small part of what we will talk about in

this essay, we will also talk about some of its branches

and about some luaries where we can find it in

Honduras.

First, where does the botanical word come from? The botanical word comes from the

Greek (Botane) which means grass, grass or fodder. The first botanist was the Persian legislator,

Zoroaster, of the VI b.C.

Botany is the science that deals with the study of plants, under all its aspects, which

includes: description, classification, distribution, identification, and the study of their

reproduction. There are also two types of botanica: Pure Botany, whose object is to expand the

knowledge of nature; Applied Botany, Whose research is at the service of agricultural, forestry

and pharmaceutical technology.

Botany is a discipline studied by biologists, but also by pharmacists, agronomists,

foresters, environmental scientists, among others.

Because of its breadth of study areas botany is developed in different branches with

different applications and several methods of study. Among them we can find:

Histology, which is responsible for the study of the anatomy of cells and tissues of plants and

animals.

Fitopalogia, is the scientific study of diseases in plants caused by pathogens or also

known as infectious organisms and environmental conditions.

 Phytogeography, deals with all aspects of the distribution of plants, from controls on the

distribution of individual species, to the factors that govern the composition of entire

communities and floras.

Geobotany, analyzes the living conditions under which various taxa and plant

communities grow, how individual organisms adapt to local conditions and the type of survival

strategies they pursue.

In Honduras exite the Lancetilla Botanical Park, is

a Botanical Garden located on the coast of the Caribbean

Sea, in the north of the Republic of Honduras, about 7 km

southeast of the city of Tela.

For a long time it was the only botanical garden in

Lancetilla
Honduras, until in 2005 the botanical garden of the UNAH

was opened, which is one of the largest in all of Latin America.

The botanical garden has an extension of 1681 hectares, of which 1261 are from a nature

reserve, 350 are from plantations and 70 have an Arboretum. Which consists of the

predominance of trees or woody plants. Some interesting facts about the botanical park is the

habitat of about 250 species of different birds in which we can opposite the Ramphastos

sulfuratus or Toucan with rays, which is the danger of extinction.

Finally, botany is a very important branch of biology, not only because it studies the

plants, also by the micro organism that we can find in them and also how they reproduce and the

habitat in which they live. This is also linked to the habitat of animals and how men can

positively or negatively affect these habitats and therefore the very existence of humanity.
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