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The genus Clivia, was named after the Duchess of Northumberland, Lady Charlotte Clive, who first cultivated the plant in England and provided the flowers for the type specimen. The Latin specific epithet miniata means “ cinnabar ", the color of red lead, referring to the flowers.
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, also known as the cinnabar polypore, is a saprophytic, white-rot decomposer. Its fruit body is a bright orange shelf fungus. It is common in many areas and is widely distributed throughout the world. It is inedible. [2] It produces cinnabarinic acid to protect itself from bacteria. [3]
Cinnabar is the common bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide. Cinnabar may also refer to: Cinnabar, the color of the mineral; Cinnabar, Queensland, a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia; Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae), a brightly coloured arctiid moth; Cinnabar Theater, a theater in Petaluma, California, USA
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Monophagous species, such as the cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae), are scarce. Although abundant, few species in this subfamily are of economic importance. Even the fall webworm , an abundant and highly polyphagous tree-feeding species that has spread from North America to Asia and Europe, does not do lasting damage to healthy hosts.
Cinnabar moths are about 20 mm (0.79 in) long and have a wingspan of 32–42 mm (1.3–1.7 in). Cinnabar moths are day-flying insects with distinctive pinkish-red and black wings. There is little variation in patterning, although on rare occasions the red markings may be replaced with yellow, or the forewing is entirely red with a black border ...
Americans spend more than $3 billion on flowers and plants alone for Mother's Day. 5. Mother's Day makes up 26 percent of all holiday purchases for flower shops and florists.
Cantharellus cinnabarinus, the red chanterelle, is a fungus native to eastern North America. [1] It is a member of the genus Cantharellus along with other chanterelles.Its distinctive red color is imparted by the carotenoid canthaxanthin.