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superwings-cultural · 2 years

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Natural and Geography: Rafflesia arnoldii - Malaysia:

Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower or giant padma, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. It is native to the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. Although there are some plants with larger flowering organs like the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) and talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), those are technically clusters of many flowers. Rafflesia arnoldii is one of the three national flowers in Indonesia, the other two being the white jasmine (Jasminum sambac) and moon orchid (Phalaenopsis amabilis). It was officially recognized as a national "rare flower" (Indonesian: puspa langka) in Presidential Decree No. 4 in 1993.

The only host plant species of R. arnoldii is Tetrastigma leucostaphylum in West Sumatra. Tetrastigma are themselves parasites of a sort, using the strength and upright growth of other surrounding plants to reach the light. The host plants of the host plants – the trees that Tetrastigma uses to climb up to light, are relatively limited in number of species, although they are generally the closest tree to the vine.

When it is young, at least at the locations studied in West Sumatra, areas of primary forest, the vine climbs on sapling trees and bushes of Laportea stimulans and Coffea canephora in the undergrowth, in the subcanopy a Campnosperma species is the most important, whereas the only large tree the vine grows in is also Laportea stimulans. Tetrastigma often can completely envelop its host at the subcanopy level, choking out the light to such degree that the forest floor below the canopy is completely dark -this is apparently preferred by Rafflesia arnoldii, the most knops are found at the darkest locations in the forest. The most common plant associated with Rafflesia arnoldii is the smallish tree Coffea canephora (the well-known robusta coffee), which is actually not native to the area, but was introduced from Africa. It covers most of the undergrowth, with a Importance Value Index (IVI) of over 100%, and is also the main component of the subcanopy with an IVI of 52.74%. The dominant tall tree in these areas is Toona sureni, which has a canopy IVI of 4.97%.

The buds take many months to develop and the flower lasts for just a few days. The flowers are gonochorous – either male or female, thus both flowers are needed for successful pollination.

When Rafflesia is ready to reproduce, a tiny bud forms outside the root or stem of its host and develops over a period of a year. The cabbage-like head that develops eventually opens to reveal the flower. The stigmas or stamens are attached to a spiked disk inside the flower. A foul smell of rotting meat attracts flies and beetles. To pollinate successfully, the flies and/or beetles must visit both the male and female plants, in that order. The fruit produced are round berries filled with numerous minute seeds.

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fredborges98 · 2 months

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Green fingers.

Por: Fred Borges

Green fingers é sobre a esperança,esperança em recuperação, recuperação da terra, do chão, pelas flores, pelas mãos, mãos que são responsáveis por tirar vidas, mãos que são responsáveis em fazer nascer vidas, mãos que escrevem o próprio destino, mãos que podem esterelizar a terra, mãos que podem fazer brotar o trigo e o pão.

O que é uma flor? Existe alguma flor que é fedorenta? Existe uma flor extremamente pequena?

A flor é um espaço no seu coração, flores da Inglaterra, flores da adversidade, mas também da oportunidade.

Ainda me lembro de um filme chamado : O Jardineiro Fiel, as flores demandam dedicação, entusiasmo, ter um Deus dentro de nós, disciplina, estudo, requer força, habilidade, destreza, competência, sensibilidade, harmonia, composição, textura,tempo das cores,das flores,ainda me lembro das pinturas de Monet.

A planta que mais leva tempo para desabrochar é a corypha umbraculifera, um tipo de palmeira do Sri Lanka, que leva mais de 80 anos para dar flores.

Existem muito mais de 50 mil tipos diferentes de espécies de orquídeas, e só no Brasil temos mais de 3500 tipos diferentes desta flor.

A baunilha é extraída a partir da flor de uma orquídea.É por conta disso que em alguns países ela é chamada de vanilla, que é o gênero desta orquídea.

Foram encontrados fósseis de rosas que têm mais de 25 milhões de anos de idade. Isso quer dizer que as rosas provavelmente são uma espécie muito mais antiga do que a humanidade.

A rosa vermelha é o amor que nasce ou brota no coração, a amarela é a gratidão pelo amor da paixão que passou e restou a amizade.

Durante o seu reinado, Henrique VIII teve a lendária "Mesa Redonda" no Castelo de Winchester - que se acreditava ser genuína - repintada. O novo esquema de pintura incluía uma rosa Tudor no centro. Embora antes disso, seu pai, Henrique VII, construiu uma capela na Abadia de Westminster dedicada a si mesmo (mais tarde foi usada para o local de seu túmulo) e foi decorada principalmente com a rosa Tudor e a ponte levadiça Beaufort - como uma forma de propaganda para definir sua reivindicação ao trono.

Rosas, rosas e rosas, rosa de Hiroshima, Rosa de Saigon, rosas de espinhos e flor.

Um dos maiores exportadores de flores de todos os tempos foi o Egito.Egito do deserto do Saara.

A rosa-do-deserto preta é uma flor originária da África do Sul e faz parte da família Apocynaceae.

A Grécia também cultivava rosas, mas também tinha campos de lírios, jacintos e outras diversas flores.

Entretanto, a flor que os gregos mais amavam era a violeta.

Flores comestíveis: Begônias, rosas, amores-perfeitos, jasmins, petúnias, lavandas, dentes de leão e cravos.

O açafrão é uma espécie de condimento preparado a partir dos estigmas de uma flor de crocus sativus, que é extremamente comum na Europa. Esse tempero é usado em muitos pratos, mas para se fazer um quilo dele são necessárias mais de 150 mil flores.

O maior produtor das flores conhecidas como tulipas é a Holanda. Por mais que esse seja o símbolo do país, a tulipa é uma flor que veio da Turquia e chegou na Holanda apenas no século XVI.

Falando em tulipas, durante a Segunda guerra mundial essa flor foi consumida pelos holandeses por conta da escassez de comida. Isso resultou nas mais diversas receitas, usadas até hoje em dia.

O nome das flores em inglês são diferentes por conta da estrutura da língua inglesa, poucas têm nomes parecidos com os que conhecemos em português, mas algumas são bem parecidas.

Amor-perfeito = pansy

Azaléia = azalea

Anêmona = windflower

Begônia = begonia

Camélia = camellia

Botão de ouro = buttercup

Campânula-branca = snowdrop

Campainha = bluebell

Copo de leite = calla lily, arum lily

Crisântemo = chrysanthemum

Cravo = carnation

Dente de leão = dandelion

Dália – dalia

Gardênia = gardenia

Escovinha = bluebonnet

Girassol = sunflower

Gerânio = geranium

Hortênsia = hydrangea

Goivo amarelo = wallflower

Lavanda = lavender

Jacinto = hyacinth

Magnólia = magnolia

Lírio = lily

Miosótis = forget-me-not

Margarida = daisy

Não-me-esqueças = forget-me-not

Narciso silvestre = daffodil

Rosa = rose

Orquídea = orchid

Tulipa = tulip

Samambaia = fern

Violeta = violet

The rose is red, the violet’s blue,

The honey’s sweet,and so are you.

Thou are my love and I am thine;

I drew thee to my Valentine:

The lot was cast and then I drew,

And Fortune said it shou’d be you.(1590 by Sir Edmund Spense and later in 1784 made famous by Gammer Gurton’s Garland).

Strawberry Fields Forever...como esquecer desta música, desta canção de John Lennon, ele dizia o que sentia, dizemos o que sentimos?, assim John declarou: “Strawberry Fields é um lugar real. Depois que parei de morar em Penny Lane, fui morar com minha tia que morava nos subúrbios ... não o tipo de imagem de favela que era projetada em todas as histórias dos Beatles.

Perto dessa casa ficava Strawberry Fields, uma casa perto de um reformatório masculino onde eu costumava ir a festas no jardim quando criança com meus amigos Nigel e Pete. Sempre nos divertíamos no Strawberry Fields. Então foi daí que tirei o nome."

Morango é considerado como o fruto vermelho do morangueiro, da família das rosáceas. É um pseudo- fruto.No entanto, em termos científicos não se pode considerar um fruto já que é constituído pelo receptáculo da flor original, em volta do qual se dispõem os frutos.

O jardineiro fiel, um trabalho ficcional sobre o teste de medicamentos em áreas miseráveis do Quênia, retrata o ocultamento de testes que não dão sustentação ao uso benéfico de uma droga.

O que muita gente não sabe foi que John Le Carré, escritor do livro homônimo e originário do filme, um Orweliano se inspirou numa das competências dos jardineiros; a fidelidade, mas antes da fidelidade, a lealdade, lealdade e fidelidade à verdade e ao amor por uma mulher e sua causa.

A verdade das flores é genuína, as plantas e as flores devolvem em cores e perfume sua dedicação a elas, neste sentido não há lealdade ou fidelidade sem reciprocidade, seja no Quênia ou Ruanda, seja no Brasil as flores exigem liberdade, transparência, lealdade e fidelidade a humanidade, ao humanismo, aos direitos humanos, a liberdade de expressão, a justiça, e tudo que é daninho, ervas daninhas, parasitas, devem morrer, entrar em entropia, em estado de putrefação, e com sorte e Deus no comando ou na missão, servir de adubo e de renovação, contribuindo com ao ciclo ou círculo virtuoso das flores.

Retornando ao início, ao filme, e Green fingers, esse faz jus ao título, dedos verdes, verde das plantas, das flores, das lembranças da infância do Strawberry Fields de John Lennon, de Monet , de Claude Monet em Giverny- França, a pouco mais de uma hora de viagem de Paris.

O grande mestre do Impressionismo morou e pintou nesta casa entre 1883 até sua morte, em 1936.

No início a propriedade era alugada, mas em 1890 foi comprada pelo pintor.

Ao longo desse tempo, Monet cultivou os jardins que apareceriam de maneira recorrente em sua obra. Ou seja: além de inventar um estilo, o grande artista ainda produziu o cenário que queria pintar.

Diante da Green Dollar Bill, do Jardineiro Fiel, escolho o Jardineiro Fiel, as flores, as flores de Green fingers, de Monet, a renovação da vida, o amor pela vida, afinal do pó viemos e ao pó voltaremos, ou "Ele sabe que somos feitos do pó e que logo ao pó voltaremos (Gênesis 2:7; 3:19). Ou

"He knows that we are made of the dust of the ground and that we are fallen and that we will soon return to the dust" (Gen. 2:7; 3:19).

This is The End ou Esse é o Fim!

Mas as rosas não falam, simplesmente as rosas exalam...( Cartola).

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markalberding · 7 months

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Titan Arum

小石川植物園 Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The inflorescence of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, is larger, but it is branched rather than unbranched. A. titanum is endemic to rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Due to its odor, like that of a rotting corpse, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant as translated from the original Indonesian word bunga bangkai (bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion).

Most flower for the first time after 7-10 years and every 7-10 years after that but some flower more frequently, every 2-3 years.

This specimen has some ways to go yet.

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woodxstone · 1 year

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BODHI BEADS

Other names: Pu Ti Zi

From Seeds used for Bodhi beads in China (link below):

Bodhi beads are Buddhist prayer items that have been traditional tools for counting while reciting a mantra, as prayer beads have been used in other world religions. The Bodhi beads are called Pu Ti Zi in Chinese: Pu Ti means Bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa), and Zi means seed; but Bodhi beads are not made of the seeds of a Bodhi tree. ...In modern times, ‘Bodhi seeds’ do not refer to any particular plant but instead refer generally to seeds and the fruits of various plants used to make prayer beads.

Bodhi beads have an important position in Tibetan Buddhism and are very popular in Tibet (the Xizang Tibetan Autonomous Region). The culture of Bodhi beads spread throughout Tibet and other provinces of China, and there are dozens to hundreds of Bodhi beads with different meanings. Recently, people have begun to wear Bodhi beads as a kind of praying or blessing ornament, in addition to functioning as a prayer bead.

Bodhi seed prayer beads. From Wikimedia Commons by Аркадий Зарубин.

Most seeds of a particular species can produce only one type of Bodhi bead. However, different degrees of processing of Corypha umbraculifera, Daemonorops jenkinsiana, and Elaeis guineensis can be used to make different types of Bodhi bead. The seeds with 2-, 3- or 4-loculed drupes of Ziziphus abyssinica can be used to make ‘Phoenix eye’, ‘Dragon eye’, and ‘Kylin eye’, respectively. Chinese names of most Bodhi beads are according to the morphological characteristics of their respective seeds; for example, the beads called ‘Moon and Stars’ usually have an ivory surface with small holes (moons) and tiny black dots (stars). Seeds of Caesalpinia bonduc are grayish, shiny, ovoid to globose, and look like the moon; therefore, the name of the corresponding Bodhi bead is ‘Moon seed’.

The occurrence frequencies of four types of Bodhi beads reached at least 50%, including ‘King Kong’, ‘Moon and star’, ‘Bodhi root’, and ‘Phoenix eye’. These were the most popular Bodhi beads in the markets.

The most common Bodhi bead, ‘King Kong’, is made from the fruit of Elaeocarpus angustifolius. ‘Two-furrowed King Kong’ is made from the fruit of Elaeocarpus hainanensis. ‘King Kong’ may have been the earliest form of prayer bead in India, named ‘Rudraksha’ in the local language, meaning ‘eye of Shiva’.

Rudraksha mala at Pasupati region kathmandu, Nepal. From Wikimedia Commons by Janak Bhatta.

‘Moon and stars’ is a very popular and traditional Bodhi bead in Chinese Buddhism and is the hard and dense seed of Daemonorops jenkinsiana. The ‘Moon and stars’ name reflects the small holes (moon) and tiny black dots (stars) covering the seed’s surface.

Moon and stars bodhi beads. From Wikimedia Commons by pack372sd.

Seeds of Corypha umbraculifera are used to make ‘Bodhi root’ beads. In India, it is also called ‘vegetable ivory’ and is a traditional tool for carving Buddhist Sutras, such as the famous ‘tale palm’ or ‘tad-patri’ because the leaves are flexible and soft when dry.

‘Phoenix eye’ and ‘Small phoenix eye’ are made from the fruits of Ziziphus abyssinica and Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa, respectively. The name ‘Phoenix eye’ refers to the eye-like shape that appears on the hard endocarp.

A "Phoenix Eye" mala. The beads are made from the polished seeds of the Ziziphus budhensis tree, known locally as Buddhacita, which are endemic to the Timal region of Kavreplanchok and at Namobuddha in Central Nepal. From Wikimedia Commons by Christopher J. Lynn.

🟤 Seeds used for Bodhi beads in China (ncbi.nml.nih.gov)

🟤 Rudraksha - Wikipedia

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dddots · 4 years

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Palm-leaf Book Models

Despite being extremely busy with commissions, I make it a point to keep doing personal work, self-exploration and loads of readings about books and their structures. Making palm-leaf books has been always been on my mind. Though I did forget about it for a while until recently, I was encouraged by some friends to really try it.

I was very grateful that my brother, Kenneth, was able to visit the San Francisco Center For The Book last year to look at the Turning Over An Old Leaf exhibition about palm-leaf manuscripts. He managed to buy a copy of the catalogue, as well as took tons of photographs for me.

Palm-leaf manuscripts were mainly made from two types of palms: the palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer) or the talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera). I did toy with the idea of making my own palm-leaf paper, but after watching a video about how they are made, decided that I should not attempt to steal a leaf from the palms in the parks nearby. So I made my models using materials that I could find in my studio (and of course, Louis’ studio).

The first model I made was with paper and binder’s board, and I used a black cotton thread to sew up the book. It is modelled after the Balinese style palm-leaf book as seen in the catalogue. Machine-made paper has a very different structure and texture to palm-leaf, which I assume will have a very strong grain. Therefore for the second model, I made use of wood veneers in various wood types to make a model similar to the Burmese palm-leaf books seen in the catalogue.

#Bookbinding #Bookbinder #Book Arts #Palm Leaf Books #Palm Leaf Book Models #Palm Leaf Manuscript #Palm-leaf Books #dddots #dddots Fine Books #Experimentation #Self-study #Singapore Bookbinder #Singapore Bookbinding #Book Arts Study #Medieval Asian Books #Asian Books #South Asian Books #Southeast Asian Books

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umitaygun58 · 7 years

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#Sakarya #Fidancılık #Üretim #sahalarimiz #pyrus #calleryana #chanticleer, #prunus #serrulata #kanzan, #prunus #subhirtella #autumnalis, #prunus #royal #burgundy, #Prunus #cerasifera #pissardi #nigra, #Acer #platanoides #globosum, #magnolia #kobus, #cercis #siliquastrum #acer #platanoides #prunus #eminens #umbraculifera #pyrus #salicifolia #pendula #Quercus #robur vb. Q18-20cm Q20-25cm Q25-30cm Q30-35cm Q35-40cm Q40-60cm (Sakarya Botanik)

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robiniapseudoacaciatreed-blog · 5 years

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Robinia Pseudoacacia Tree

The Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly called black locust, is quick growing, medium sized, suckering, deciduous tree that typically grows to 30-50’ (less frequently to 80’) tall. Although originally native to the Allegheny Mountains, it has escaped gardens and naturalized over time to cover much of the United States and southern Canada plus parts of Europe, Asia and South America. At its best, it will grow as a broadly columnar single trunk tree with a narrow oblong crown. It also will grow in suckering thickets. Young growth on this tree has thorns.

This is a good plant for difficult sites, transplants well, and tends to reseed. It develops shoots from roots. It is also a legume, fixes its own nitrogen and is moderately salt tolerant.

False acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) is still common in cultivation, but most of these plants belong to one of the numerous modern cultivars and are distinct from typical plants present in naturalised populations. The modern cultivars are generally less invasive than the typical form of this species and the two most popular of these are golden locust (Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia'), with yellowish-green leaves, and mop top robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia 'Umbraculifera'). Other cultivars include 'Hillieri', 'Inermis', 'Lace Lady', 'Decaisneana' and 'Purple Robe'. Some of these cultivars are spineless (e.g. 'Inermis'), while others have pink or purplish flowers (e.g. 'Purple Robe').

Black locust is a large deciduous tree and sometimes a shrub, growing up to 25 m tall.[1] Narrow brittle branches form a round or oblong head.[2] Older trees have furrowed dark brown bark with flat topped ridges.[3] Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound and have 7 to 21 leaflets.[4] The thin leaflets are elliptic or rounded with a mucronate tip, and are dark green above, pale beneath. Fragrant white flowers have a yellow blotch on the uppermost petal, and are born in drooping racemes. The glabrous pods are 5 to 10 cm long, and contain four to eight seeds.[3] Seedlings and sprouts exhibit juvenile growth characterized by rapid growth and heavy thorns.[5] More description is provided in Fernald (1950)[1], Stephens (1973)[3], and Barnes and Wagner (1981)[4].

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Amorphophallus Titanium, one of the largest flowers in the world. It blooms once every 40 years only for 4 days! Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The inflorescence of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, is larger, but it is branched rather than unbranched. A. titanum is endemic to Sumatra. Due to its odor, like that of a rotting corpse, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant (Indonesian: bunga bangkai—bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion). The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 3 m (10 ft) in height. Image Source: Wikipedia https://www.instagram.com/p/CchlhtAr3qN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=