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Anthurium scherzerianum, the flamingo flower or pigtail plant, is a species of Anthurium (family Araceae) native to Costa Rica. [2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental houseplant, kept at 15 °C (60 °F) or higher. [3] It is naturally an epiphyte, growing on trees in the rainforest. [4]
Anthurium (/ æ n ˈ θj uː r i ə m /; [3] Schott, 1829) is a genus of about 1,000 [4] [5] species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. [4] General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, [6] pigtail plant, [7] and laceleaf.
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, published in 1985, is the fourth volume of collected essays from evolutionary biologist and well-known science writer Stephen Jay Gould. [ 1 ] The essays were culled from his monthly column The View of Life in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for more than two decades.
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The genus Phoenicopterus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae to accommodate a single species, the American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber. [1] [2] The genus name is Latin for "flamingo". [3]
Data from Pereira de Andrade 1986, p. 101, Simons 2006, p. 26 General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) Wingspan: 18 m (59 ft 1 in) Wing area: 18 m 2 (190 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 18 Airfoil: Göttingen 539 Empty weight: 205 kg (452 lb) Max takeoff weight: 330 kg (728 lb) Performance Maximum speed: 220 km/h (140 mph, 120 kn) Cruise speed: 104 km/h (64 mph, 56 kn) Maximum glide ...
It is the largest flamingo in the Andes and is one of the two heaviest living flamingos alongside the taller greater flamingo. [5] Reportedly body mass of the Andean flamingo has ranged from 1.5 to 4.9 kg (3.3 to 10.8 lb), height from 1 to 1.4 m (3 ft 3 in to 4 ft 7 in) and wingspan from 1.4 to 1.6 m (4 ft 7 in to 5 ft 3 in). [5] [6]