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Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) [1] is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness). [contradictory]
The turmeric powder becomes red when mixed with lime juice or lime powder. [4] Unlike red lead and vermilion, these are not poisonous. [4] [5] Modern material being sold as sindoor mainly uses vermilion, an orange-red pigment, the purified and powdered form of cinnabar, which is the chief form in which mercury sulfide naturally occurs. As with ...
Murraya paniculata is a tree that typically grows to a height of 7 m (23 ft) but often flowers and forms fruit as a shrub, and has smooth pale to whitish bark. It has pinnate leaves up to 170 mm (6.7 in) long with up to seven egg-shaped to elliptical or rhombus -shaped.
It is also known as the native orange, [4] native pomegranate, and bumble tree. [5] It is known in the Arrernte language of Central Australia as merne atwakeye , in the Adnyamathanha language of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia as iga [ 6 ] or iga warta , [ 7 ] and in the Gamilaraay language as bambul .
The leaves snap cleanly when bent; this character, stated as diagnostic for red pine in some texts, is however shared by several other pine species. The cones are symmetrical ovoid , 4–6 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long by 2.5 cm (1 in) broad, and purple before maturity, ripening to nut-blue and opening to 4–5 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –2 ...
Pittosporum undulatum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Pittosporaceae Genus: Pittosporum Species: P. undulatum Binomial name Pittosporum undulatum Vent. Pittosporum undulatum is a fast-growing tree in the family Pittosporaceae. It is sometimes also known as sweet pittosporum, native daphne ...
The bark is thick, grayish-brown, and scaly plated at the base of the trunk, and orange-red, thin, and flaking higher on the trunk. The leaves are needle-like, dark green, with two per fascicle, 12–20 centimetres ( 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 –8 inches) long and 0.8–1 millimetre ( 1 ⁄ 32 – 3 ⁄ 64 in) wide, the persistent fascicle sheath 1.5–2 cm ...
Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine (UK), Scotch pine (US), Baltic pine, [2] or European red pine [3] is a species of tree in the pine family Pinaceae that is native to Eurasia.It can readily be identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green leaves and orange-red bark.