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2. Styphnolobium - Wikipedia

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   Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott, the pagoda tree (Chinese Scholar, Japanese pagodatree; syn. Sophora japonica), is native to eastern Asia (mainly China; despite the name, it is introduced in Japan), is a popular ornamental tree in Europe, North America and South Africa, grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

3. Amber - Wikipedia

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   Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, [1] and worked as a gemstone since antiquity. [2] Amber is used in jewelry and as a healing agent in folk medicine. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents.

4. Jade - Wikipedia

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   Main jade producing countries. Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.Jade is often referred to by either of two different silicate mineral names: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of minerals), or jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminum in the pyroxene group of minerals). [1]

5. Marie Louise Diadem - Wikipedia

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   It was with these new stones that the diadem was put on display in the Louvre in 1962, alongside the necklace, earrings and comb tiara from the original parure, as part of the 'Dix Siecles de Joaillerie Francaise' exhibition, celebrating French jewelry from the past millennium. The Louvre went on to purchase the necklace and earrings from their ...

6. Jet (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   Jet has been used in Britain since the Neolithic period [26] It continued in use in Britain through the Bronze Age where it was used for necklace beads. [26] Jet necklaces following the plate and spacer design may have been based on Gold lunula. [27] During the Iron Age jet went out of fashion until the early 3rd century AD in Roman Britain.

7. Abrus precatorius - Wikipedia

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   Abrus precatorius is commonly known as jequirity, [3] Crab's eye, [3] or rosary pea, [3] paternoster pea, [4] love pea, [4] precatory pea or bean, [3] prayer bead, [4] John Crow Bead, [5] coral bead, [4] red-bead vine, [4] country licorice, [4] Indian licorice, [3] wild licorice, [4] Jamaica wild licorice, [4] olinda (In Sri Lanka/Sinhala), [6] kundumani (in Tamil), [7] coondrimany, [4] gidee ...