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Bulbophyllum nocturnu is the first night-flowering amazing orchid discovered by specialist Ed de Vogel in New Britain island, near Papua New Guinea, during one of his usual trips. His finding proves that biodiversity should never be considered a closed chapter, as experts deal with several unknown species of plants a... |
22 November 2011
11:37 GMT |
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Scientists at the Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Cape Town said in a research published yesterday that the high frequency of fires in the Cretaceous Period, some 120 to 65 million years ago, is responsible for the birth and spread of the first flowering plants.Apparently, flowers evolved d... |
8 September 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Fans of the work of Tolkien who are more interested in re-living the experiences described in his books via videogames rather than watching them translated into moving pictures will apparently have to wait quite some time before getting to play Bilbo as he gets his hands on the Ring, which will then feature prominent... |
12 June 2009
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Sony Ericsson has come up with a special edition of its S500i handset, created in collaboration with Jemma Kid, a well-known make-up artist from London, who is also a countess and the sister of the famous English supermodel Jodie Kidd. The new Sony Ericsson phone has a white case with a floral pattern on it and it&... |
3 June 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Sex toys may be made not only of plastic; and only by humans. Nature has got its own. For humans, many flowers have an erotic symbolism, like the rose in the Western World (and this, since the ancient Greeks and Romans, who identified the rose with their goddesses of love - Aphrodite, respectively Venus), but also th... |
14 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In time, flowers generated thousands of legends and myths. These legends speak about their powers and magical virtues. No wonder flowers have their secret languages. The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma year old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) were found. The oldest known hu... |
2 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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You may have heard about breadfruit trees. This is the sausage tree, to complete the hot dog. When thinking about the trees of the African savanna, baobabs, acacias and eventually mopane trees come into your mind. But one of the most original trees of the African savanna is the Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana), a tree... |
25 March 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Lizards wandered the world along with the dinosaurs. And even if small, they proved tougher, as they survived into the era of the mammals. A 130-million-year-old fossil found in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan and described by the journal "Paleontology" is the oldest found plant-eating lizard, a discovery with impli... |
25 March 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Sea can be as deceptive as a mermaid. There are sea anemones or sea cucumbers, and none of them are plants. There are even sea lilies, only that these "flowers" are related to starfish, sea urchins and... sea cucumbers. Crinoids or sea lilies amaze us through their diversified shapes and colors. Sea lilies are amongs... |
13 March 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Over 50 tropical and subtropical areas (20, only in Africa) are infested today by the beautiful water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), originating in the Amazon basin. The conquered areas go from Africa (except Sahara and Namib deserts and southern tip of South Africa) to India, Indochina, eastern China, Japonia, New ... |
11 March 2008
11:22 GMT |
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The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma years old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) have been found. The oldest known human representation of a flower is that of a rose. It appears on a silver medal found in a tomb from the Altay Mountains region (southern Siberia) and it seems t... |
29 February 2008
09:46 GMT |
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An ancient Egyptian belief said the lotus flower gave life to the Pharaonic Egypt. At the beginning of the world, on the dark waters, a lotus flower floated with closed petals. The petals opened and out of the flower the Sun God Ra raised, creating the world. In the evening, the Sun went to sleep in the lotus flower,... |
13 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Everyone likes pictures, right? They like taking them, they like watching them, but most of all, they like showing them off. And since it is quite common to simply place them in an 'artistic' frame and put them on the fireplace, maybe you should consider adjusting your photos a little bit - not much, just t... |
31 January 2008
12:05 GMT |
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1.Even if it looks like a tree, the bamboo is just woody perennial evergreen grass, related to cereals like wheat, corn or rice. 2.The bamboo is the plant with the fastest growth rhythm: 2-3 cm per hour, up to one meter (3.3 ft) in one day. In 5-6 weeks, a bamboo reaches the height of 18-20 m (60-66 ft). For short pe... |
27 December 2007
10:32 GMT |
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In the scorching deserts of southern and eastern Africa and Arabia, where rainfall is a miracle, grows a jewel: the Desert-rose (Adenium obesum), also called Sabi Star or Kudu. It is closely related to the oleander from the Mediterranean area. With a delicate shape and contorted branches, this evergreen succulent shr... |
21 December 2007
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1.Costa Rica is a small country from Central America having 4 million inhabitants and is slightly larger than Switzerland. The land was discovered in 1502 by Columbus, who was taken by surprise with his whole fleet by a storm in the waters off the neighboring Honduras. Columbus navigated along the shores of present-d... |
27 November 2007
08:26 GMT |
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We call them yuccas, but in their native areas of Central America, they are rather known under the names of itabo, izote or daguillo. Their closest relative is the famous Agave from which tequila is made. There are about 40 species of yucca (in the genus Yucca), from southwestern US and Mexico to South America and th... |
24 November 2007
02:06 GMT |
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Except for sea food and fish, all you eat comes directly or indirectly (through chicken, pork and beef) from flowering plants. But how they appeared is a big puzzle for the researchers. A new research made by a team at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and published in Nature comes with new data on the issue. New 3-D non... |
23 November 2007
03:28 GMT |
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You may not like flowers, but if you like vanilla, you actually like ... orchids. Vanilla is the only comestible orchid and the vanilla stick is nothing else than the fermented and blackened pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia that is to be found in Mexico. (in fact "vanilla" means "little pod" in Spanish). Did you ... |
17 November 2007
04:02 GMT |
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Plants can be compared to nice human bodies: their colors reflect the plant's health. A plant's main pigments are of two types: caretonoids, the 'precursors' of the vitamin A that give yellow-orange-red hues and anthocyanins that create blue-red hues. A new research has made a crucial advance in ... |
3 October 2007
05:41 GMT |
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We do not know if dino lover boys used them to impress their girls, but dinosaurs surely enjoyed orchids before their demise, as revealed by a newfound fossil. A block of amber (fossil resin) encasing an extinct, stingless bee (Proplebeia dominicana) carrying a clump of orchid pollen on its back shows that these "mas... |
30 August 2007
04:25 GMT |
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You get fat by only drinking water, but bats can burn sugar faster than top-class athletes, having the fastest sugar-burning metabolism amongst all mammals on Earth. This is the result of a research made on American nectar-feeding bats (encountered in tropical America): within minutes of stopping for sugar-rich flowe... |
9 August 2007
05:19 GMT |
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This week we have a nice game. It's one of those games that only look like Luxor in the Zuma style, but actually they are not. If you're tired of swapping gems in rotating puzzles, but still like that genre, this could be your salvation.Lotus Deluxe is the game that brings a twist in the whole game-play. So... |
27 July 2007
08:05 GMT |
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Orchids are renowned exactly for their beauty and scent. But amongst 30,000 known species, some break this rule. The most recently discovered orchid, endemic to Yosemite National Park, spreads a foul scent. It was exactly the stinky smell that attracted the attention of its re-discoverers, as the plant was first coll... |
18 July 2007
05:18 GMT |
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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 Orc... |
13 July 2007
04:28 GMT |
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When first European explorers crossed the jungles of Sumatra in the 19th century, they were amazed to discover flowers as big as a wheel, lying apparently on the ground. The flower with the fleshy juicy petals had a vivid red color, crossed by fine brown-yellow networks. On the upper part of the floral cup the reprod... |
21 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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In the field of sex, nature got very imaginative with the plants. Sexual organs of the plants, or flowers, are extremely diversely organized: they can be male or female, or have a hermaphrodite structure. Depending on species, an individual can carry hermaphrodite flowers, or only males, or only females, or a combina... |
1 May 2007
10:13 GMT |
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Would you like to enjoy tulips in October?Or eating cherries in September?For this to be done, scientists had to know what triggers flowering on plants. A new research discovered it: a protein that works like a long-distance messenger from leaf to shoot-tip signaling the moment when the plant must flower. The investi... |
19 April 2007
06:49 GMT |
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