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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.
Rhododendron cinnabarinum (朱砂杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to eastern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, southeastern Tibet, and southwest China, where it grows at altitudes of 1,900–4,000 m (6,200–13,100 ft).
Cinnabar generally occurs as a vein-filling mineral associated with volcanic activity and alkaline hot springs. The mineral resembles quartz in symmetry and it exhibits birefringence. Cinnabar has a mean refractive index near 3.2, a hardness between 2.0 and 2.5, and a specific gravity of approximately 8.1.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
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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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]
Passiflora cinnabarina is a glabrous climber or scrambler with slender stems up to 4 m (13 ft) long and with simple tendrils in the leaf axils. The leaves are up to 10 cm (3.9 in) long and wide with three lobes, on a petiole 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) long with narrow lance-shaped stipules 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long at the base.