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2. Victoria amazonica - Wikipedia

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   Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the second largest in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. It is called Vitória-Régia or Iaupê-Jaçanã ("the lilytrotter's waterlily") in Brazil and Atun Sisac ("great flower") in Inca (Quechua). Its native region is tropical South America, specifically Guyana and the Amazon Basin.

3. Justicia brandegeeana - Wikipedia

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   Justicia brandegeeana, the Mexican shrimp plant, shrimp plant or false hop, [2] is an evergreen shrub in the genus Justicia of the acanthus family Acanthaceae, native to Mexico, [1] and also naturalized in Florida. It grows to 1 m tall (rarely more) with spindly limbs. The leaves are oval, green, 3–7.5 cm long.

4. Icicle - Wikipedia

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   Impurities in the water can lead to ripples on the surface of the icicles. [1] Icicles elongate by the growth of ice as a tube into the pendant drop. The wall of this ice tube is about 0.1 mm (0.004 in) and the width 5 mm (0.2 in). As a result of this growth process, the interior of a growing icicle is liquid water.

5. Ice spike - Wikipedia

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   An ice spike is an ice formation, often in the shape of an inverted icicle, that projects upwards from the surface of a body of frozen water. Ice spikes created by natural processes on the surface of small bodies of frozen water have been reported for many decades, although their occurrence is quite rare.

6. Myriophyllum spicatum - Wikipedia

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   Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil [3] or spiked water-milfoil) is a submerged perennial aquatic plant which grows in still or slow-moving water. It is native to Europe , Asia , and North Africa , but has a wide geographic and climatic distribution among some 57 countries, extending from northern Canada to South Africa . [ 4 ]

7. Cactus - Wikipedia

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   CAM uses water much more efficiently at the price of limiting the amount of carbon fixed from the atmosphere and thus available for growth. [23] CAM-cycling is a less water-efficient system whereby stomata open in the day, just as in plants using the C 3 mechanism. At night, or when the plant is short of water, the stomata close and the CAM ...