Saturday, January 10, 2009

Bee and Meyer lemon flowers

Bee and Meyer lemon flowers


DescriptionEnglish: Bee and Meyer lemon flowers
Date9 January 2009
Sourcehttp://www.public-domain-image.com/animals/insects/bee/slides/bees-really-like-pollinating-my-myer-lemon-tree.html
AuthorJon Sullivan
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Graphium sarpedon on Lantana camara

Graphium sarpedon (청띠제비나비)


DescriptionName: Graphium sarpedon on Lantana camara
Family: Papilionidae
English: Common bluebottle
Korean: 청띠제비나비
Date13 August 2008
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AuthorLaitche
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Grass of Parnassus


Grass of Parnassus


DescriptionJåblom - Grass-of-Parnassus - Parnassia palustris
Date11 August 2008, 14:18
SourceGrass-of-Parnassus 1
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AuthorRandi Hausken from Bærum, Norway
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Yellow Roses in a Ginger Jar

Yellow Roses in a Ginger Jar


AuthorL. Prang & Co. (publisher)
TitleYellow Roses in a Ginger Jar
DescriptionEnglish: File name: 07_11_001310
Date1861-1897 (approximate)
Mediumpainting
SourceFlickr: Yellow Roses in a Ginger Jar
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Oak of the Golden Dream

Oak of the Golden Dream





DescriptionEnglish: Oak of the Golden Dream, Placerita Canyon State Park, California, USA.
Date20 May 2008
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Canna

Canna

Alternative Names (異名):
Canna


Canna (or Canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of approximately twenty species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc.

Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae. Such a family has almost universally been recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998) also recognizes the family, and assigns it to the order Zingiberales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots.

The species have large, attractive foliage and horticulturists have turned it into a large-flowered, brash, bright and sometimes gaudy, garden plant. In addition, it is one of the world's richest starch sources, and is an agricultural plant.

Although a plant of the tropics, most cultivars have been developed in temperate climates and are easy to grow in most countries of the world as long as they can enjoy about 6 hours average sunlight during the summer. See the Canna cultivar gallery for photographs of Canna cultivars.

The name Canna originates from the Celtic word for a cane or reed.


Cannaceae | Crops | Gardening | Plants and pollinators | Root vegetables | Tropical agriculture | Underutilized crops

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Campanula

Campanula

Campanula (pronounced /kæmˈpænjuːlə/ Cam-pá-nu-la) is one of several genera in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. It takes its name from their bell-shaped flowers—campanula is Latin for "little bell".

The genus includes about 300 species and several subspecies, distributed across the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region east to the Caucasus.

The species include annual, biennial and perennial plants, and vary in habit from dwarf arctic and alpine species under 5 cm high, to large temperate grassland and woodland species growing to 2 m tall.


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