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Paris quadrifolia, the herb Paris [3] or true lover's knot, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in temperate and cool areas throughout Eurasia, from Spain to Yakutia, and from Iceland to Mongolia. [1] It prefers calcareous soils and lives in damp and shady places, especially old established woods and stream banks.
A group of artists made Herbiers, books with detailed illustrations of each new plant, and the plants of the collection were carefully studied for their possible medical or culinary uses. [4] One example was the group of coffee plants brought from Java to Paris, which were raised and studied by Antoine de Jussieu for their possible medical and ...
Lalbagh Botanical Garden or simply Lalbagh (lit. ' red garden ' ), is a botanical garden in Bangalore , India , with an over 200-year history. First planned and laid out during the dalavaiship of King Hyder Ali , the garden was later managed under numerous British superintendents before Indian Independence.
Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi is a place where India’s many cultures live together.
Fruit in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. The tree is called the "tree of sorrow" because the foliage becomes droopy as blooming flowers fall off during early morning. [8] The Latin specific epithet arbor-tristis means "sad tree". [8]
In the 1760s and 1770s, botany became increasingly popular in Britain because of the translation of Linnaeus's works into English. One of the most prominent books about botany was William Withering's Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain (1776), which used Linnaeus's system for classifying plants ...
Having started as a botanical garden, the park currently houses more than 300 species of trees, herbs and shrubs. Plant exhibits include a nursery for medicinal plants, an orchid house, a fern house, a glass house, and a rose garden. [2] The park also includes an aquarium which is the largest revenue generator after the general admission fee.
Trichosanthes dioica, also known as pointed gourd, is a tropical perennial cucurbit plant with its origin in the Indian subcontinent.The plant propagated vegetatively and grows with training on a support system (e.g., trellis) as pencil-thick vines (creepers) with dark-green cordate (heart-shaped) simple leaves.