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Pseudozizeeria maha, the pale grass blue, [1] [2] is a small butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Parthenium hysterophorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.It is native to the American tropics. [1] Common names include Santa-Maria, [2] Santa Maria feverfew, [3] whitetop weed, [4] and famine weed. [5]
Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary (established in 1979, also known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Bustard Sanctuary of Maharashtra) is a wildlife sanctuary for the great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) at Solapur, Maharashtra, India. The land is drought-prone and semi-arid. [2] It is in the Deccan thorn scrub forests ecoregion. [3]
In the performance of Vedic rituals such as the homa and tarpana, the kusha grass is shaped like a ring and is worn by a priest on the ring finger of his right hand. [2] The auspicious day for uprooting the sacred grass Kusha is the amavasya day of Bhadrapada month in Hinduism called as Kusha Amavasya .
Challan or Chalan is a common Hindi word (चालान, cālān) that has become an Indian English technical word used officially in many professional, ...
Ashwatthama, believing his time had come, invoked the Brahmastra against the Pandavas from a tiny blade of grass to fulfill the oath of killing them. Krishna told Arjuna to fire his own Brahmastra as an anti-weapon against Ashwatthama to defend themselves. Vyasa intervened and prevented the destructive weapons from clashing against each other.
Imperata cylindrica (commonly known as cogongrass / k oʊ ˈ ɡ oʊ n / or kunai grass / ˈ k uː n aɪ / [1] [3]) is a species of perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, Africa, and Southern Europe. It has also been introduced to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Southeastern ...
The optimal soil conditions for marram grass is a soil pH from 4.5 to 9.0, soil temperatures from 10–40 °C (50–104 °F), [17] and salt concentrations of no more than 1.0-1.5%. [18] Marram grass can also be found on alkaline soils with a high pH of around 9.1 and also acidic soils with pH less than 4.5.