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  2. Taraxacum officinale - Wikipedia

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    Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, [6] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae. The common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruits that disperse in the wind. These balls are called "clocks" in both British and American ...

  3. Pappus (botany) - Wikipedia

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    The pappus-clad fruits that make up the familiar "dandelion clock" being dispersed by the wind (family Asteraceae) Bidens frondosa achenes with barbed pappusIn Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, [1] the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower.

  4. Taraxacum ceratophorum - Wikipedia

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    Taraxacum ceratophorum, also known as the horned dandelion, is a species of flowering plant within the genus Taraxacum and family Asteraceae. [1] This alpine species has a preference for mountainous habitat, where it can be found growing at elevations up to 3000 meters above sea level. [ 2 ]

  5. Taraxacum - Wikipedia

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    Dandelion bilobed stigma bearing pollen. Taraxacum (/ t ə ˈ r æ k s ə k ə m /) [3] is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions.

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  7. Taraxacum kok-saghyz - Wikipedia

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    Taraxacum kok-saghyz, often abbreviated as TKS and commonly referred to as the Kazakh dandelion, rubber root, or Russian dandelion, [1] [2] is a species of dandelion native to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, notable for its production of high-quality rubber. [3]

  8. World clock - Wikipedia

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    A world clock is a clock which displays the time for various cities around the world. The display can take various forms: The display can take various forms: The clock face can incorporate multiple round analogue clocks with moving hands or multiple digital clocks with numeric readouts, with each clock being labelled with the name of a major ...

  9. Roman timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The daytime canonical hours of the Catholic Church take their names from the Roman clock: the prime, terce, sext and none occur during the first (prīma) = 6 am, third (tertia) = 9 am, sixth (sexta) = 12 pm, and ninth (nōna) = 3 pm, hours of the day. The English term noon is also derived from the ninth hour.