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The Dutch, or common hyacinth, of house and garden culture (H. orientalis, native to Southwest Asia) was so popular in the 18th century that over 2,000 cultivars were grown in the Netherlands, its chief commercial producer. This hyacinth has a single dense spike of fragrant flowers in shades of red, blue, white, orange, pink, violet or yellow.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta is a perennial plant that grows from a bulb. [8] It produces 3–6 linear leaves, all growing from the base of the plant, and each 7–16 millimetres (0.28–0.63 in) wide. [11] An inflorescence of 5–12 (exceptionally 3–32) flowers is borne on a stem up to 500 mm (20 in) tall, which droops towards the tip; [2] the ...
Hyacinthus orientalis, the common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Palestine. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century.
Jacinto is a Spanish and Portuguese given name meaning Hyacinth, [1] which can refer to Saint Hyacinth, a Roman martyr (Hyacinth and Protus), or the Hyacinth flower itself. Common English nicknames for "Jacinto" are "Jack", "Chinto" and "Jesse". Jacinto has only a few equivalents in other languages such as the Polish "Jacek" and "Jacenty", the ...
Muscari. Mill. (L.) Mill. Muscari is a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of dense, most commonly blue, urn-shaped flowers resembling bunches of grapes in the spring. The common name for the genus is grape hyacinth (a name which is also used for the related genera Leopoldia and Pseudomuscari, which were ...
January 19. (2015-01-19) –. August 28, 2015. (2015-08-28) FlordeLiza is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by ABS-CBN. Based on a 1981 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Wenn V. Deramas, it stars Ashley Sarmiento, Rhed Bustamante, Jolina Magdangal, Marvin Agustin and Desiree del Valle.
Buenos Aires. Language. Spanish. Genre. Gaucho literature. Hilario Ascasubi (1807 – November 17, 1875) was an Argentine poet, politician and diplomat. He played an active role in the resistance to the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. [1] Ascasubi was also a prominent figure in gaucho literature. [1][2]
Manuel N. Flores. Manuel Flores (Jose Manuel Nepomunceno Paublino Flores; ca. 1801–1868) served as a volunteer in the Texas army in 1835–1838. Fighting and commanding, he rose through the ranks to reach sergeant status during the fight for Texas independence and was commissioned a captain during the Republic years.