Poppy
People urged to be urban beekeepers
Paul Monaghan, head of social goals at the Co-operative, said: "Nature's number one pollinating machine appears to be breaking down and no one knows for sure why. Urban...
Spring is at gardeners' desks and on their minds
...propagating coleus inside. She's feeding the birds, chasing squirrels away from her birdfeeders and working on plans for the master gardener plant sale in May. It all helps make the...
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Poppy
...and soldier, John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields". The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is the state flower of California. In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer,...
Coins of the Canadian dollar
...- Souvenir". While some countries' mints have produced colourized coins for market to collectors, this is the first colourized coin in general circulation in the world. The Mint states...
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Quarter (Canadian coin)
This resulted in a bizarre international incident, in which American contractors unfamiliar with the coin's design believed these coins were outfitted with nanotechnology designed for...
Papaver rhoeas
...magazine on December 8, 1915. In Persian literature, red poppies, especially red corn poppy flowers, are considered the flower of love. They are often called the eternal lover flower.
Papaveraceae
...opium poppy and corn poppy are symbols, respectively, of sleep and death. In Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Australia the corn poppy is worn in remembrance of World War I.
Forget-me-not
...have adopted the Flanders Poppy as well. Freemasons use the Forget Me Not to remember those masons who were victimized by the Nazi regime Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mouse-ear...
"I'm sorry: could I try one of those banana-nut muffins?" In ten minutes, the coffee table before us was a muffin graveyard. When it came time for the question-and-answer period, I asked, "If I have to take a drug test and I show up positive for opium, can you call them and explain that it was the poppy-seed muffin?" The guy lolled at my question, though I don't know if he thought it was funny. Maybe he was a "Seinfeld"
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Programmed cell death
...self) pollen. The researchers, Steven G. Thomas and Veronica E. Franklin-Tong, also found that the response involves rapid inhibition of pollen-tube growth, followed by PCD. The social...
Coquelicot
.... It is the color of flowers of Papaver rhoeas, the corn poppy. In French , coquelicot is a vernacular name of this poppy. Claude Monet painted "Les Coquelicots" or "Poppies Blooming" in...
Cannon Fodder
The Royal British Legion reacted strongly against the usage of the Remembrance Day poppy, since they claimed it could induce buyers in error, believing the game was endorsed by them.
Papaver
...rhoeadine is derived from the flowers of the Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas). This is used as mild sedative. The stems contain a latex or milky sap. This may cause skin irritation, and...
