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Anthurium scherzerianum, the flamingo flower or pigtail plant, is a species of Anthurium (family Araceae) native to Costa Rica. [2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental houseplant, kept at 15 °C (60 °F) or higher. [3] It is naturally an epiphyte, growing on trees in the rainforest. [4]
Anthurium (/ æ n ˈ θj uː r i ə m /; [3] Schott, 1829) is a genus of about 1,000 [4] [5] species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. [4] General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, [6] pigtail plant, [7] and laceleaf.
Data from Pereira de Andrade 1986, p. 101, Simons 2006, p. 26 General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) Wingspan: 18 m (59 ft 1 in) Wing area: 18 m 2 (190 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 18 Airfoil: Göttingen 539 Empty weight: 205 kg (452 lb) Max takeoff weight: 330 kg (728 lb) Performance Maximum speed: 220 km/h (140 mph, 120 kn) Cruise speed: 104 km/h (64 mph, 56 kn) Maximum glide ...
The greater flamingo is the tallest of the six different species of flamingos, standing at 3.9 to 4.7 feet (1.2 to 1.4 m) with a weight up to 7.7 pounds (3.5 kg), and the shortest flamingo species (the lesser) has a height of 2.6 feet (0.8 m) and weighs 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg).
The genus Phoenicopterus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae to accommodate a single species, the American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber. [1] [2] The genus name is Latin for "flamingo". [3]
It is the largest flamingo in the Andes and is one of the two heaviest living flamingos alongside the taller greater flamingo. [5] Reportedly body mass of the Andean flamingo has ranged from 1.5 to 4.9 kg (3.3 to 10.8 lb), height from 1 to 1.4 m (3 ft 3 in to 4 ft 7 in) and wingspan from 1.4 to 1.6 m (4 ft 7 in to 5 ft 3 in). [5] [6]
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Shiny is a web framework for developing web applications (apps), originally in R and since 2022 in python. It is free and open source. [2] It was announced by Joe Cheng, CTO of Posit, formerly RStudio, in 2012. [3] One of the uses of Shiny has been in fast prototyping. [4] In 2022, a separate implementation Shiny for Python was announced. [5]