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Seven "debate" topics are known from the Sumerian literature, falling in the category of 'disputations'; some examples are: the debate between sheep and grain; the debate between bird and fish; the tree and the reed; and the dispute between silver and copper, etc. [2] These topics came some centuries after writing was established in Sumerian Mesopotamia.
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory trees, including official trees of the following of the states, of the federal district, and of the territories. State federal district
For the 1928 publication (Ilyustrirovannaya Rossiya, No.17, April 21) re-titled (Pyotr Petrovich's Story, Рассказ Петра Петровича). In the God's Tree compilation the original title was retrieved. Snowdrop (Podsnezhnik, Подснежник). Perezvony, 1927, No.27, December. Loopy Ears. The story is based on Bunin's ...
In these forests, winter is a time of dormancy for plants, [8] when broadleaf deciduous trees conserve energy and prevent water loss, and many animal species hibernate or migrate. [1] Preceding winter is fruit-bearing autumn, a time when leaves change color to various shades of red, yellow, and orange as chlorophyll breakdown gives rise to ...
The yellow-green flowers are small and appear in early spring, with staminate flowers in clusters on slender pedicels and pistillate flowers on drooping racemes 10–20 cm (4–8 in) long. The fruit is a schizocarp of two single-seeded, winged samaras on drooping racemes.
The Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils. [5] In Maugham's foreword, he writes that the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation."
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In the spring of 1875, Harvard botanist Asa Gray embarked on a trip to the panhandle of Florida, to "make a pious pilgrimage to the secluded native haunts of that rarest of trees, the Torreya taxifolia". The trees observed by Gray during that trip grew up to a meter in circumference and 20 meters tall. Pertaining to its common name, he wrote: