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Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floral design is found as far back as the culture of ancient Egypt. Floral designs, called arrangements, incorporate the five elements and seven principles of floral design. [1]
Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. [1] A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
A milkweed follicle releasing its seeds.. In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds. [1] It is usually defined as dehiscing by a suture in order to release seeds, [2] for example in Consolida (some of the larkspurs), peony and milkweed (Asclepias).
Redcurrants, a type of berry derived from a simple (one-locule) inferior ovary Kiwifruit, a berry derived from a compound (many carpellate) superior ovary. In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
Fruit Basket Turnover or Fruit Basket Upset, also known as Fruit Salad, Fruit Bowl, Fruits Basket [] and others is a children's game.. Fruit Basket usually refers to a variation in which each fruit is ostensibly associated with only one player, and the player in the centre must call two fruit names.
Flemish arrangements (1600–1750) The baroque arrangements in the Dutch-Flemish style were more compact and proportioned. Their major characteristic was the variety of flowers within the bouquet. French arrangements (1600–1814) During the French Baroque period, a soft, almost fragile appeal became a major characteristic of floral design.