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This species produces white, funnel-shaped flowers that bloom at night and last until midday, with bent-back flower bracts. The flowers are about 10 centimeters long. Its spherical to elongated fruits are white, yellowish green, to red or dark purple, up to 5 centimeters in diameter, and covered with thorns that shed when ripe. The flesh is red ...
Native Americans used the fruit as a food source—raw, roasted, or dried and ground into meal. [9] They also used the plant leaves as a fiber in basketry, cloth, mats, ropes, and sandals. [ 9 ] [ 6 ] The roots were used as a red pattern element in Apache baskets.
Agrotis ipsilon, dark sword-grass — immigrant; Agrotis herzogi, Spalding's dart — rare immigrant; Agrotis puta, shuttle-shaped dart; Agrotis puta puta — south & central; Agrotis puta insula — Isles of Scilly; Agrotis ripae, sand dart — south, central & north-east (Nationally Scarce B) Agrotis crassa, great dart — immigrant (formerly ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States issued sanctions against a Russian judge on Tuesday for her role in the detention of human-rights activist Alexei Gorinov over his opposition to Russia's ...
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries.
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made (進化の実 ～知らないうちに勝ち組人生～, Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Miku and illustrated by U35 (spelled "Umiko").
The smeared dagger moth adult has a wingspan of 3.6–5.4 centimetres (1.4–2.1 in). [1] The forewings have a mottled gray appearance, with orbicular and reniform spots on each dorsal surface that are incompletely outlined and indistinct. [1] Smeared-appearing dark wedge spots are present along the postmedial line with their apices pointed ...
A kris (from Kawi kris 'dagger') [6] [a] is a Javanese asymmetrical dagger with a distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and nickelous iron (pamor). [8] The kris is famous for its distinctive wavy blade, although many have straight blades as well, and is one of the weapons commonly used in the pencak silat ...