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Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.
Thespesia populnea, commonly known as the portia tree (/ ˈ p ɔːr ʃ ə /), [4] Pacific rosewood, [5] Indian tulip tree, or milo, [6] among other names, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mallow family, Malvaceae.
Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲か爺さん), also called Hanasaka Jijii (花咲か爺), is a Japanese folk tale.. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in Tales of Old Japan (1871), as "The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom". [1]
The Trees and the Bramble is a composite title which covers a number of fables of similar tendency, ultimately deriving from a Western Asian literary tradition of debate poems between two contenders. [1] Other related plant fables include The Oak and the Reed and The Fir and the Bramble.
Leaves. Bursera simaruba is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 30 meters tall, with a diameter of one meter or less at 1.5 meters above ground. [5] The bark is shiny dark red, and the leaves are spirally arranged and pinnate with 7-11 leaflets, each leaflet broad ovate, 4–10 cm long and 2–5 cm broad. [6]
Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (Latin: the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period.
The planting of trees on marginal crop and pasture lands helps to incorporate carbon from atmospheric CO 2 into biomass. [29] [30] For this carbon sequestration process to succeed the carbon must not return to the atmosphere from biomass burning or rotting when the trees die. [31] To this end, land allotted to the trees must not be converted to ...
The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, [1] for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages. It is administered by the English Academy of South Africa, and was named in honour of Sol Plaatje .