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A floral diagram is a schematic cross-section through a young flower. [1] It may be also defined as “projection of the flower perpendicular to its axis”. [3] It usually shows the number of floral parts, [Note 2] their sizes, relative positions and fusion.
The flower is bisexual, it contains 5 stamens, the pistil is fused of five carpels, and the ovary is inferior. A floral formula is a notation for representing the structure of particular types of flowers .
Flower production and trade supports developing economies through their availability as a fair trade product. [140] View of the Tampere Central Square during the Tampere Floral Festival in July 2007. Flowers provide less food than other major plant parts (seeds, fruits, roots, stems and leaves), but still provide several important vegetables ...
The Flower-class corvette [1] [2] [3] (also referred to as the Gladiolus class after the lead ship) [4] was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Pasargadae (/pə'sɑrgədi/; [a] Persian: پاسارگاد, romanized: Pāsārgād) was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great (559–530 BC). Today it is an archaeological site located just north of the town of Madar-e-Soleyman and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the northeast of the modern city of Shiraz.
Totora made artificial floating islands of the Uru peoples, as traditional settlements, in Lake Titicaca where Totora grows Aymara Totora Reed Boat on display at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC
The first modern depiction of the tomb, published by James Justinian Morier in 1811, entitled the "Tomb of Madre Suleiman". The tomb was renamed to as the Tomb of Suleiman's Mother (referring either to Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik or the biblical Bathsheba, mother of Solomon) after the Muslim conquest of Persia and the subsequent fall of Sasanian Empire in order to save it from the ...
Flag Date Use Description 1929–1945 [1]: National flag, civil and state ensign : Three equal horizontal bands in the pan-Slavic colors, blue (top), white, and red.: 1945–1946 [2]