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The requirements for the development of lampenflora are sufficient (artificial) light and moisture. An increase in nutrient content (e.g. fertilizer usage on land above the cave) or heat (e.g. incandescent lighting) may lead to an increase in lampenflora. The germs, seeds or spores can get brought into the cave by air, water, animals or people. [7]
Morton has bred at least 99 types of lettuce, [5] and his company, Wild Garden Seed, offered seed for 114 lettuce varieties in 2016. [6]On August 10, 2015, 'Outredgeous', a red romaine lettuce bred by Morton in the 1990s, [7] became the first plant variety to be planted, harvested and eaten entirely in space, as a part of Expedition 44 to the International Space Station.
Veronica persica is an annual that reproduces from seed. Its cotyledons are triangular with truncated bases. The short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate with coarsely serrated margins, and measure one to two centimetres (0.4 to 0.8 in) long. The leaves are paired on the lower stem and are alternately arranged on the upper parts.
Former Atomic Gardening Society President Muriel Howorth shows popular garden writer Beverley Nichols a two-foot-high (61 cm) peanut plant grown from an irradiated nut in her own backyard. Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful.
The first product in this line, Dungeon Planner Set 1: Caverns of the Dead, was written by Albie Fiore and Robert Neville, with artwork by Fiore and Neville as well as Gary Chalk. It was published by Games Workshop in 1984 as a boxed set. [1] The following year, Games Workshop released the sequel, Dungeon Planner Set 2: Nightmare in Blackmarsh.
Later there was a move towards more naturalistic cave-like grottoes, [1] sometimes showing the early influence of the Romantic movement. The porch of Scott's Grotto today The first recorded shell grotto in England was at Whitehall Palace ; James I had it built in the undercroft of the Banqueting House in 1624, but it has not survived.
Nick Cave releases his 18th album with The Bad Seeds on 30 August 2024 (Ian Allen) Punk-turned-prophet Nick Cave often describes music as “sacred”. Performance, for him, is an act of communion ...
The fruits are ellipsoid or sub-globose woody capsules. They are green at first, but later turn brown and finally black. The fruits hang on to the trees. It is easily raised through seeds. It grows best on rich deep alluvial loams and prefers warm, humid and moist soils and can withstand water logging. [2]