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There is generally a crown of wide leaf blades which in wild species are often variegated with silver and green coloration. The inflorescence bears unisexual flowers in a spadix, with a short zone of female flowers near the base and a wider zone of male flowers nearer the tip. The fruit is a fleshy berry that ripens red. The fruit is a thin ...
Schistostega pennata, also called goblin gold, [1] Dragon's gold, [2] luminous moss [1] or luminescent moss, [3] is a haplolepideous moss known for its glowing appearance in dark places. It is the only member of the family Schistostegaceae .
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
There are two varieties of red buckeye trees: The red-flowered red buckeye tree (Aesculus pavia var. pavia) and a rare variety of red buckeye tree that has yellow flowers (Aesculus pavia var ...
Cephalanthera rubra, known as red helleborine, [2] is an orchid found in Europe, North Africa and southwest Asia. Although reasonably common in parts of its range, this Cephalanthera has always been one of the rarest orchids in Britain .
A balsam, Impatiens psittacina, or parrot flower, is a very rare impatiens species discovered in the Shan States of Upper Burma by Arthur Hedding Hildebrand, a British official. Seeds of it were presented to the Royal Gardens (Kew) in 1899 and it flowered in 1900 and a description was published in 1901 by Joseph Dalton Hooker who gave the ...
In Arabic, the flower is known as "دم المسيح" (dam al-Massiah), meaning "blood of the Messiah"/"blood of Christ". In Hebrew, it is known as "blood of the Maccabees" (Hebrew: דם המכבים, dam hamakabim). The name is derived from a legend saying that in every spot where the flower grows, a drop of blood has spilled on the earth. [1]
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