Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The flowers are prickly and pink to purple in color. The flower heads are about 2 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide, surrounded by a cluster of bracts . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The outer bracts end in hooks causing a hook-and-loop effect after the flower head dries, when the bracts will attach to humans and animals to transport the seedhead.
Rheum ribes, the Syrian rhubarb or currant-fruited rhubarb, [2] or warty-leaved rhubarb, [3] is an edible wild rhubarb species in the genus Rheum.It grows between 1000 and 4000 m on dunite rocks, among stones and slopes, and is now distributed in the temperate and subtropical regions of the world, chiefly in Western Asia (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia) to Afghanistan ...
Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. [2] The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes .
Rheum nobile, the Sikkim rhubarb [1] or noble rhubarb (पदमचाल), is a giant herbaceous plant native to the Himalaya, from northeastern Afghanistan, east through northern Pakistan and India (in Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to Myanmar, occurring in the alpine zone at 4000–4800 m altitude.
Wild rhubarb may refer to several different plants: Arctium minus, native to Europe, in family Asteraceae; Ipomoea pandurata, herbaceous perennial vine named to North America, in family Convolvulaceae; Heracleum mantegazzianum, a toxic plant native to central Asia, in family Apiaceae; Rumex hymenosepalus, native to North America, in family ...
Darmera peltata, the Indian rhubarb or umbrella plant, is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae. [2] It is a slowly spreading rhizomatous perennial native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (western Oregon to northwestern California), growing to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall by 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide.
The series is animated in a deliberately rough style, using marker pens and a very sketchy drawing technique, so that the pictures are constantly "shaking". This effect, known to animators as "boiling", gives an energetic character to the show, and was a contrast to the slick, smooth colouring of the American Hanna-Barbera shows that were being ...
Rheum rhabarbarum was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [3] Linnaeus also described R. undulatum, but this is now considered to be the same species. [1]The name rha barbarum, Latin for 'foreign rha', was first used in the writings of Celsus, who uses the word to describe a valued medicinal root imported from the east.