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The flowers are 2 to 4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, typically a rich blue color and bottle shaped with fused petals (sympetalous) and closed mouths. [6] [7] The flowers are clustered at the top of the plant or in the axis of the top leaves. The stems are 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) long, lax in habit, producing sprawling plants with ...
The blue ant (Diamma bicolor), also known as the blue-ant or bluebottle, is a species of flower wasp in the family Thynnidae. [1] It is the sole member of the genus Diamma and of the subfamily Diamminae. Despite its common name and wingless body, it is not an ant but rather a species of large, solitary, parasitic wasp. [2]
The flowers have more recently been used in a color-changing gin and absinthe. Blue in the bottle, it turns pink when mixed with a carbonated mixer such as tonic water due to the change in pH. [22] As organic colours are not permanent, this type of gin is recommended to be stored in a dark place to maintain the effect. [23]
Blue bottle (chemical reaction) The Blue Bottle Coffee House, Vienna, founded in 1686; Blue Bottle Coffee, roaster based in Oakland, California, US; Bluebottle (character), in The Goon Show; Bluebottle OS, computer operating system; Fizzy Blue Bottles, a type of sour sweets; A slang term for a police officer
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Sailors' superstitions are superstitions particular to sailors or mariners, and which traditionally have been common around the world. Some of these beliefs are popular superstitions, while others are better described as traditions, stories, folklore, tropes, myths, or legends.
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Protophormia terraenovae is commonly called northern blowfly, blue-bottle fly or blue-assed fly (blue-arsed fly in British English).It is distinguished by its deep blue coloration and large size and is an important species throughout the Northern Hemisphere.