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  2. Crocus - Wikipedia

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    The showy, salver to cup-shaped, single or clustered actinomorphic flowers taper off into a narrow tube; the flowers emerge from the ground, and can be white, yellow, lilac to dark purple, or variegated in cultivars. The flower tube is long, cylindrical and slender, expanding apically. The floral tube is long and narrow with 6 lobes in 2 whorls.

  3. The House of the Seven Gables - Wikipedia

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    [7] The House of the Seven Gables was released in the second week of April 1851. [8] Two printings were issued in the first month, a third in May, and a fourth in September 1851, totaling 6,710 copies in its first year (slightly more than The Scarlet Letter in its first year). Hawthorne earned 15% in royalties from the $1.00 cover price. [9]

  4. Rappaccini's Daughter - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in Padua, Italy, in a distant and unspecified past, possibly in the sixteenth century, after the Paduan Botanical Garden had been founded. [1]Giovanni Guasconti, a young student recently arrived from Naples, Southern Italy, to study at the University of Padua, is renting a room in an ancient building that still exhibits the Coat of Arms of the once-great, long since extinct ...

  5. Amaryllis belladonna - Wikipedia

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    The flower has a long-tubed, pale perianth, which fully expands at night. This flower will then release a sweet fragrance, that contains acyclic terpenoid alcohol, linalool and abundant nectar, that attracts pollinators to it. [10] A. belladonna seeds are soft and fleshy, and appear white or pinkish.

  6. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  7. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers List of national flowersflowers that represent specific geographic areas Plants in culture – uses of plants by humans Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

  8. Category:Lists of flowers - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of flowers. Lists of flowering plants belong in Category:Lists of plants. ... This page was last edited on 7 August 2024, at 06:28 (UTC).

  9. Gazania rigens - Wikipedia

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    Gazania rigens (syn. G. splendens), sometimes called treasure flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to coastal areas of southern Africa. It is naturalised elsewhere and is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant .