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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost successfully soft-lands on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. At the Academy Awards , Anora wins five awards, including Best Picture .
Parkinsonia florida, the blue palo verde (syn. Cercidium floridum), is a species of palo verde native to the Sonoran Deserts in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its name means "green pole or stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk and branches, that perform photosynthesis .
The ecoregion's natural vegetation is humid evergreen rain forests. The forest types include alluvial rain forest on lowland plains, hill forests at the foot of the mountains, montane forests above 1000 meters, upper montane forests, and high mountain forests below the tree line.
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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
The African forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), also known as the dwarf buffalo or the Congo buffalo, is the smallest subspecies of the African buffalo. [1] It is related to the Cape buffalo ( Syncerus caffer caffer ), the Sudan buffalo ( Syncerus caffer brachyceros ), and the Nile buffalo ( Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis ).
Saffron threads from Iran Stigmas (i.e., flower threads) from saffron crocus are plucked, piled, and dried. Plants. Byzantine meadow saffron (Colchicum × byzantinum) is a hybrid flowering plant. Cape saffron (Cassine peragua) is a flowering tree with saffron-coloured bark. Cobra saffron (Mesua ferrea) is a tree found in southern Asia.
The forest also has vines, epiphytes, and climbers. Open grasslands, ranging up to 2.4 m (8 ft) in height, occupy one-fourth of the land area; they are man- made, the aftermath of the slash-and-burn agricultural system, and most contain tropical savanna grasses that are nonnutritious and difficult to eradicate. The diverse flora includes 8,000 ...