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Crotalaria cunninghamii - this form has distinctive green flowers in axillary clusters.. Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green bird flower, bird flower ratulpo, parrot pea, or regal bird flower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae, [1] named Crotalaria after the Greek word for rattle because their seeds rattle, and cunninghamii after early 19th-century botanist Allan Cunningham.
The flowers of Schizanthus are available in a wide range of colors and sizes, and are delicately spotted and blotched like the smaller butterflies. The blooms on a well-grown plant are produced in such profusion as to completely cover it. For the garden the dwarfed varieties should be chosen as the tall sorts grow rather slender and crooked.
The female's throat is rather violet blue, mixed with gray buff, and the belly is paler than the male's. The immature looks like the female adult as it has duller colors. This characteristic more pronounced in the female juvenile. As most hummingbird species, the blue-throated goldentail is primarily nectarivorous. [7]
Its long proboscis (25–28 mm (1.0–1.1 in)) [9] and its hovering behavior, accompanied by an audible humming noise, make it look remarkably like a hummingbird while feeding on flowers. Like hummingbirds, it feeds on flowers which have tube-shaped corollae. [9] It should not be confused with the moths called hummingbird moths in North America ...
The smallest dinosaur ever found – a bird-like creature weighing less than a tenth of an ounce – has been discovered inside a drop of amber, where it was preserved for 99 million years.
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Song Sung Blue is an upcoming American musical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Craig Brewer based on the 2008 documentary by Greg Kohs. It stars Hugh Jackman , Kate Hudson , Michael Imperioli , Fisher Stevens , Jim Belushi , Ella Anderson , King Princess , Mustafa Shakir , and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.
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