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In India, the shape is associated more with a mango than with a pine cone, and is called ambi, of or pertaining to amba, Sanskrit for mango. Via Kashmir shawls it spread to Europe at least in the 19th century, where patterns using it are known since 1960s as paisleys , as Paisley, Renfrewshire in Scotland was a major centre imitating them.
Download QR code; Print/export ... 337 and snake fruit, as well as in the pattern of scales in pine cones, ... Patterns from nature (as art) Edmaier, Bernard.
Winged genii co-existed with numerous other mythological hybrids in the Early Iron Age art of Assyria and Asia Minor. They influenced Archaic Greece during its " orientalizing period ", resulting in the hybrid creatures of Greek mythology such as the Chimera , the Griffin or Pegasus and, in the case of the "winged man", Talos .
Paisley or paisley pattern is an ornamental textile design using the boteh (Persian: بته) or buta, a teardrop-shaped motif with a curved upper end. Of Persian origin, paisley designs became popular in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, following imports of post- Mughal Empire versions of the design from India, especially in the form of ...
The Fontana della Pigna or simply Pigna (, "pinecone") is a former Roman fountain which now decorates a vast niche in the wall of the Vatican facing the Cortile della Pigna, located in Vatican City, in Rome, Italy.
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A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone A young female cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads.
Amanita ravenelii, commonly known as the pinecone lepidella, is a species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae. The whitish fruit bodies are medium to large, with caps up to 17 centimetres ( 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) wide, and stems up to 25 cm (10 in) long.