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The song "American Beauty Rose" was written in 1950 and popularized by Frank Sinatra . In the musical "Funny Girl", protagonist Fanny Brice humorously refers to herself as an "American beauty rose / with an American beauty nose / and ten American beauty toes" in the song " I'm the Greatest Star ." In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged ...
Rosa abyssinica var. microphylla Crép. Rosa abyssinica [1] is the only rose native to Africa. Europeans first learned of the rose in the writings of 19th-century Scottish botanist Robert Brown. [2] Rosa abyssinica is included in the genus Rosa, and the family Rosaceae. [3] No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
Rosa Mystica. The Blessed Virgin Mary featuring three swords, or three roses in red, white and yellow. Rosa Mystica (or Mystical Rose) is a poetic title of Mary. One form of Marian devotion is invoking Virgin Mary's prayers by calling upon her using a litany of diverse titles, and the title 'Mystical Rose' is found in the Litany of Loreto.
Rosa × damascena ( Latin for damascene rose ), more commonly known as the Damask rose, [ 1][ 2] or sometimes as the Iranian Rose, Bulgarian rose, Taif rose, Ispahan rose and Castile rose, is a rose hybrid, derived from Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. [ 3] DNA analysis has shown that a third species, Rosa fedtschenkoana, has made some genetic ...
Rosa banksiae Rosa persica. There are currently four subgenera in Rosa, although there has been some disputes over the years. [3] The four subgenera are: Hulthemia (formerly Simplicifoliae, meaning "with single leaves") containing one or two species from Southwest Asia, R. persica and R. berberifolia (syn. R. persica var. berberifolia) which are the only species without compound leaves or ...
Mo Li Hua. " Mo Li Hua " ( Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā or Mòlihuā [a] [ 1]; lit. 'Jasmine Flower' [b]) is a Chinese folk song of the "xiaoqu" ("short song") tune type genre, hailing from the Jiangnan region which encompasses the lower banks of the Yangtze river around Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou. [ 2][ 3] The song has been ...
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...
The national flower of Nicaragua is known as the sacuanjoche (plumeria rubra). The sacuanjoche flower (Plumeria) grows on a conical tree that flowers around May. Sacuanjoche flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators.