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Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
Crocus sativus, commonly known as saffron crocus or autumn crocus, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae. A cormous autumn-flowering cultivated perennial , unknown in the wild, [ 2 ] it is best known for the culinary use of its floral stigmas as the spice saffron .
Some crocus species, known as "autumn crocus", flower in late summer and autumn, during (autumnal) rains, after summer's heat and drought. The name autumn crocus is also often used as a common name for Colchicum , [ 68 ] which is not a true crocus but in its own family ( Colchicaceae ) in the lily order Liliales .
Eucomis autumnalis, the autumn pineapple flower, or autumn pineapple lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to Malawi, Zimbabwe and southern Africa. It is a mid to late summer flowering deciduous bulbous perennial.
The chrysanthemum is the official flower of the city of Salinas, California. [44] The chrysanthemum is the official flower of several fraternities and sororities, including Chi Phi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, [45] Lambda Kappa Sigma, [46] Sigma Alpha, and Triangle Fraternity.
One of his most celebrated works, [2] Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn consists of a pair of two-folded byōbu folding screens painted with ink and color on silver and gold-foiled paper, measuring 416.6 by 461.8 centimetres (164.0 in × 181.8 in) each.
The plants begin to flower and fruit from 3 years old. The highly aromatic flowers , produced in clusters of one to three, are 1 cm long with a four-lobed creamy yellow calyx; they appear in early summer and are followed by clusters of fruit , a small cherry-like drupe 1–1.7 cm ( 3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, orange-red covered in silvery scales.
Elaeagnus umbellata is known as Japanese silverberry, [2] umbellata oleaster, [3] autumn olive, [2] [4] autumn elaeagnus, [4] spreading oleaster, [4] autumnberry, or autumn berry. The species is indigenous to eastern Asia and ranges from the Himalayas eastwards to Japan .