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The flowers are prickly and pink to purple in color. The flower heads are about 2 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide, surrounded by a cluster of bracts . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The outer bracts end in hooks causing a hook-and-loop effect after the flower head dries, when the bracts will attach to humans and animals to transport the seedhead.
Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. [2] The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes .
Rheum nobile, the Sikkim rhubarb [1] or noble rhubarb (पदमचाल), is a giant herbaceous plant native to the Himalaya, from northeastern Afghanistan, east through northern Pakistan and India (in Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to Myanmar, occurring in the alpine zone at 4000–4800 m altitude.
Wild rhubarb may refer to several different plants: Arctium minus, native to Europe, in family Asteraceae; Ipomoea pandurata, herbaceous perennial vine named to North America, in family Convolvulaceae; Heracleum mantegazzianum, a toxic plant native to central Asia, in family Apiaceae; Rumex hymenosepalus, native to North America, in family ...
The series is animated in a deliberately rough style, using marker pens and a very sketchy drawing technique, so that the pictures are constantly "shaking". This effect, known to animators as "boiling", gives an energetic character to the show, and was a contrast to the slick, smooth colouring of the American Hanna-Barbera shows that were being ...
Place the rhubarb in a large bowl and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and the cornstarch. Toss to combine. Place the rhubarb in the prepared pan pink side down, trimming the pieces ...
Gunnera tinctoria, known as giant rhubarb, [2] Chilean rhubarb, or nalca, is a flowering plant species native to southern Chile and neighboring zones in Argentina. It is unrelated to rhubarb , as the two plants belong to different orders , but looks similar from a distance and has similar culinary uses.
Rheum rhabarbarum was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [3] Linnaeus also described R. undulatum, but this is now considered to be the same species. [1]The name rha barbarum, Latin for 'foreign rha', was first used in the writings of Celsus, who uses the word to describe a valued medicinal root imported from the east.