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  2. Flora Scales - Wikipedia

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    In 1919, Scales's father, George Herbert Scales, announced he was going to divorce Gertrude Maynard Snow (Scales's mother) and marry his secretary. Scales, her mother and sister, moved to Whakatū Nelson where Scales worked in various jobs (such as domestic servant, and in a canning factory) to help support the family.

  3. Black rose symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The flowers commonly called black roses do not really exist in said color, instead they actually have a dark shade, such as the "Black Magic", "Barkarole", "Black Beauty" and "Baccara" varieties. They can be artificially colored as well. [1] [2] In the language of flowers, roses have many different meanings. Black roses symbolize ideas such as ...

  4. List of pests and diseases of roses - Wikipedia

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    Cottony cushion scale (order Hemiptera: family Coccoidea) Icerya purchasi – This scale infests twigs and branches. The mature female is oval in shape, reddish brown with black hairs, 5 mm long. When mature the insect remains stationary and produces an egg sac in grooves, by extrusion, in the body which encases hundreds of red eggs.

  5. Scale (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    In zoology, a scale (Ancient Greek: λεπίς, romanized: lepís; Latin: squāma) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection. In lepidopterans ( butterflies and moths ), scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing , and provide coloration.

  6. Rosaceae - Wikipedia

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    For example, Cotoneaster contains between 70 and 300 species, Rosa around 100 (including the taxonomically complex dog roses), Sorbus 100 to 200 species, Crataegus between 200 and 1,000, Alchemilla around 300 species, Potentilla roughly 500, and Rubus hundreds, or possibly even thousands of species.

  7. Scroll (art) - Wikipedia

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    Scroll-forms containing animals or human figures are said to be "inhabited"; more often than not the figures are wildly out of scale with the plant forms. [7] Frequently, especially in spreading designs, an upright element imitating the main stem or flower-stalk of the plant appears as a central element protruding vertically from the base ...

  8. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers List of national flowersflowers that represent specific geographic areas Plants in culture – uses of plants by humans Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

  9. Insect scale - Wikipedia

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    Photographic and light microscopic images: Zoomed-out view of an Aglais io. Closeup of the scales of the same specimen. High magnification of the coloured scales (probably a different species). Electron microscopic images: A patch of wing: Scales close up: A single scale: Microstructure of a scale: Magnification: Approx. ×50 Approx. ×200 × ...