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The Callaway Gardens is a 13,000 acre garden complex located near Pine Mountain, Georgia. Pine Mountain is a town located in Harris County, Georgia. ...


It was founded in 1952 by Cason Callaway to promote and protect native azalea species. It now has a wide variety of recreational features including large enclosed butterfly habitat and the John Sibley Horticultural Center, which are famous for their wide variety of cultivars and their populations of native plants. The native palm Sabal minor maintains one of its northernmost populations in the area. Azaleas are flowering shrubs making up part of the genus Rhododendron. ... A cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant species. ... Look up Palm on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word Palm has several meanings: The central region of the human hand and an ancient unit of length based thereon. ... Binomial name Sabal minor (Jacq. ...



 
 

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