Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
All three were chosen on World Environment Day in 1990, [13] and enforced by law through Presidential Decree (Keputusan Presiden) No. 4 1993, [14] On the other occasion, bunga bangkai was also added as puspa langka together with rafflesia.
Flag of Malaysia – Jalur Gemilang (Stripes of Glory). The national flag of Malaysia, also known as the Stripes of Glory (Jalur Gemilang), [8] is composed of a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan (Federal Star).
Shield: Equal divisions of four topped by single row of five krises, sided by a Pinang palm along with the Penang Bridge to the left and a Malacca tree to the right, and based on divisions containing the state arms of Sabah and Sarawak and a hibiscus (bunga raya) Supporters: Two rampant tigers proper.
The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps.He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on the Indonesian island of Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
Bunga bunga, an erotic entertainment; Bunga mas, a tribute sent to the king of Siam by vassal states in the Malay Peninsula; Bunga River, northeastern Nigeria; Bunga bangkai, a common name in Indonesia for Amorphophallus titanum, the so-called "carrion flower" Bunga raya, the Malay name for Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, the national flower of Malaysia
The jasmine image was reduced in size and moved to the upper part, while the lettering "BUNGA MELATI" ("JASMINE FLOWER") was capitalized and placed below the "RUPIAH" lettering. Coins of this design were minted until 2003 and weighed 5.34 g (0.188 oz), had a diameter of 24 mm (0.94 in), were 1.83 mm (0.072 in) thick, and had a smooth edge.
This genus was named after the human clitoris, for the flowers bear a resemblance to the vulva.The first reference to the genus, which includes an illustration of the plant, was made in 1678 by Jakób Breyne, a Polish naturalist, who described it as Flos clitoridis ternatensibus, meaning 'Ternatean flower of the clitoris'.