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July 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM. It's sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In ...
Roblox (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.
Phloxus St.-Lag. (1880), orth. var. Phlox ( / ˈflɒks /; Ancient Greek: φλόξ "flame"; plural "phlox" or "phloxes", Ancient Greek: φλόγες phlóges) is a genus of 68 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. They are found mostly in North America (one in Siberia) in diverse habitats from alpine tundra to open ...
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae ). Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower. These petals attract pollinators, and reproductive organs that produce gametophytes, which in ...
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L. 19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ; / ˌkɒnvəˈleɪriə məˈdʒeɪlɪs / ), [ 2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [ 3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in ...
The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes 20–40 cm (8–16 in) long, each flower 4–7 cm (1 + 5 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) diameter with five yellow petals of equal size and shape. The fruit is a legume , 30–60 cm (12–24 in) long and 1.5–2.5 cm ( 9 ⁄ 16 –1 in) broad, with a pungent odor and containing several seeds.
The chrysanthemum is one of the " Four Gentlemen " ( 四君子) of China (the others being the plum blossom, the orchid, and bamboo ). The chrysanthemum is said to have been favored by Tao Qian, an influential Chinese poet, and is symbolic of nobility. It is also one of the four symbolic seasonal flowers.