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Facts About Pansies
• Pansy is popular amongst the flower enthusiasts as they are very easy-to grow plants. Pansies grown from seed or bedding plants are comparatively disease and pest free. • The pansy is closely related to the viola as it is its ancestor. • Pansy blooms come in three major color patterns.
Facts About Amaranthus
Do you know that • There are two sorts of Amaranthus flowers; they are upright bloom spike, for instance, A. hypochondriacus or long- hanging tassels, for instance, A. caudatus. • Amaranthus hypochondriacus can be commonly called Prince’s Feather. It is native to India and produces lance-like foliage in deep veins. It is remarkable by bi-colored blooms of purple and crimson hues.
Do you know that • In Buddhism the Lotus flower is considered to be a sacred. Being one of the eight fortunate signs of Buddhism.
Some Facts on Lotus Flower
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance found in a number of plants, principally in a member of the Apocynaceae family known as Iboga ( Tabernanthe iboga ). A hallucinogen with both psychedelic and dissociative properties, the substance is banned in some countries; in other countries it is being used to treat addiction to opiates , methamphetamine and other drugs. Derivatives of ibogaine that lack the substance's hallucinogen properties are under development. [ 1 ]
Ibogaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World on the verge of the last great land grab - environment - 14 July 2008 - New Scientist
Forests will be hard hit to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding world population, experts warn. In two reports, they say that booming demand for food, fuel and wood as the world's population surges from 6 to 9 billion will put unprecedented and unsustainable demand on the world's remaining wooded ecosystems. "Arguably, we are on the verge of the last great global land grab," says Andy White, co-author of Seeing People Through the Trees , one of the two reports which are both published by Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a US organisation. White's report said that unless agricultural productivity rises sharply, new land equivalent in size to 12 times the area of Germany will have to be cultivated for crops to meet food and biofuel demand by 2030. "Unless steps are taken, traditional forest owners, and the forests themselves, will be the big losers," says White.
Motuo, the last untouched county in China - Culture China
The virgin forest in Motuo County wreathed in mist. [Photo: Xinhuanet] Motuo, as the only county with no highway link to the outside world among all of China's 2,100 strong counties, is the last county where the Brahmaputra River crosses over in China before it flows to India.
This is the rarest and most mysterious orchid in the world and its vernacular name is the ghost orchid. Now, a specimen has been discovered growing high in an old cypress tree in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples (southwest Florida). The Ghost Orchid (Polyrrhiza lindenii) is also called Palm Polly and White Frog Orchid and got the fame with the non-fiction book "The Orchid Thief" and the movie based on the book, "Adaptation".
The Rarest and Most Mysterious Orchid: the Ghost Orchid - Softpedia
Tree That Owns Itself - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Son of The Tree That Owns Itself in 2005. The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base. The tree, also called the Jackson Oak , is located at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia , United States. The original tree fell in 1942, but a new tree was grown from one of its acorns , and planted in the same location. The current tree is sometimes referred to as the Son of The Tree That Owns Itself .