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Catkin. A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind - pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in Salix). They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem that is often drooping. They are found in many plant families ...
Performance Food Group Company (PFG) is an American company that was founded in 1885 in Richmond, Virginia, by food peddler James Capers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Headquartered in Goochland County, Virginia (just outside Richmond), the company distributes a range of food products, and has more than 22,000 employees.
The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate fad diet devised by Robert Atkins in the 1970s, marketed with claims that carbohydrate restriction is crucial to weight loss and that the diet offered "a high calorie way to stay thin forever". [2][1] The diet became popular in the early 2000s, with Atkins' book becoming one of the top 50 best-selling books ...
It is a deciduous tree growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall with a broad crown. The leaves are alternate, simple, 10–22 centimetres (4– 8⁄ in) long and 4.5–8 cm (1⁄ – 3⁄ in) broad, with a toothed margin. The flowers are produced in catkins 4–20 cm (1⁄ – 7⁄ in) long, with the female flowers at the base of the catkin and males ...
Food groups were a public health education concept invented to teach people eating very restricted, unvaried diets how to avoid becoming deficient in specific nutrients. They have since been adapted to also address diseases of affluence related to diet, such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease. [2]
Amentotaxus is a genus of conifers (catkin-yews) comprising five species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. The genus is endemic to subtropical Southeast Asia, from Taiwan west across southern China to Assam in the eastern Himalaya , and south to Vietnam .
Corythucha elegans, the willow lace bug, is a bug species in the family Tingidae found on willows in North America. Rhabdophaga rosaria is a type of gall found on willows. Rust, caused by fungi of genus Melampsora, is known to damage leaves of willows, covering them with orange spots.
Taxaceoxylon (fossil wood) Synonyms. Austrotaxaceae Neger 1907. Cephalotaxaceae Kudo & Yamamoto 1931. Taxaceae (/ tækˈseɪsi.iː, - ˌaɪ /), commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.