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H. matronalis foliage. Hesperis matronalis is an herbaceous flowering plant species in the family Brassicaceae.It has numerous common names, including dame's rocket, damask-violet, dame's-violet, dames-wort, dame's gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen's gilliflower, rogue's gilliflower, sweet rocket, and mother-of-the-evening.
It is quite common in captivity, although not as common as its nearest relative, the violet turaco. Zoo diets often consist of "oranges, apples, mangoes, pears, papayas, bananas, and softbill diet pellets." [8] These birds do quite well in captivity as they prefer to climb over flight, thus requiring less aviary space. They are hardy birds and ...
The damson (/ ˈ d æ m z ə n /) or damson plum (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, or sometimes Prunus insititia), [1] also archaically called the "damascene", [2] is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree.
Violets, symbol of Sapphic love. Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women. [27] [28] [29] The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets.
The violet 405 nm laser (whether constructed directly from GaN or frequency-doubled GaAs laser diodes) is not in fact blue, but appears to the eye as violet, a color for which a human eye has a very limited sensitivity.
The blue jay is the provincial bird of the province of Prince Edward Island in Canada. [43] The blue jay is also the official mascot for Johns Hopkins University, Elmhurst University, and Creighton University. The blue jay was adopted as the team symbol of the Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball team, as well as some of their minor league ...
Hue refers to color as we normally use the term. Transparent gemstones occur in the pure spectral hues of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. [25] In nature, there are rarely pure hues, so when speaking of the hue of a gemstone, we speak of primary and secondary and sometimes tertiary hues. Ruby is defined to be red.
Streptocarpus ionanthus flowers. Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia is a section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella [1] consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa.