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Mosquito plant. Mosquito plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Azolla species (duckweed ferns) Agastache cana (Texas hummingbird mint) Pelargonium 'citrosum' (Citrosa geranium, citronella plant) Verbena officinalis (Common vervain) Category:
The mosquito life cycle consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Eggs are laid on the water surface; they hatch into motile larvae that feed on aquatic algae and organic material. These larvae are important food sources for many freshwater animals, such as dragonfly nymphs, many fish, and some birds.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. [6] [7] [3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1] [8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.
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The word rhubarb is likely to have derived in the 14th century from the Old French rubarbe, which came from the Latin rheubarbarum and Greek rha barbaron, meaning 'foreign rhubarb'. The Greek physician Dioscorides used the Greek word ῥᾶ (rha), whereas Galen later used ῥῆον (rhēon), Latin rheum. These in turn derive from a Persian name for species o...
Rhubarb is grown widely, and with greenhouse production it is available throughout much of the year. It needs rainfall and an annual cold period of up to 7–9 weeks at 3 °C (37 °F), known as 'cold units', to grow well. The plant develops a substantial underground storage organ (rhubarb crowns) and this can be used for early production by transferrin...
The advocate of organic gardening Lawrence D. Hillslisted his favourite rhubarb varieties for flavour as 'Hawke's Champagne', 'Victoria', 'Timperley Early', and 'Early Albert', also recommending 'Gaskin's Perpetual' for having the lowest level of oxalic acid, allowing it to be harvested over a much longer period of the growing season without develo...
Rhubarb is grown primarily for its fleshy leafstalks, technically known as petioles. The use of rhubarb stalks as food is a relatively recent innovation. This usage was first recorded in 18th- to 19th-century England after affordable sugarbecame more widely available. Commonly, it is stewed with sugar or used in pies and desserts, but it can also b...
The roots and stems contain anthraquinones, such as emodin and rhein. Emodin "represents a genotoxic risk for humans" while rhein is "a compound devoid of genotoxic capabilities." The anthraquinones have been separated from powdered rhubarb root for purposes in traditional medicine, although long-term consumption of anthraquinones has been associat...
Rhubarb is a host to the rhubarb curculio, Lixus concavus, which is a weevil. Damage is mainly visible on leaves and stalks, with gummosisand oval or circular feeding and egg-laying sites. Hungry wildlife may dig up and eat rhubarb roots in the spring, as stored starches are turned to sugars for new foliage growth.
Rhubarb displayed for sale at a marketA 19th-century apothecaryjar for rhubarbDried strawberry-flavoured rhubarb1804 illustration of a rhubarb seller in LondonThompson, Fed S. Rhubarb or Pie Plant Culture, 1894. (1894)Morse, J. E. The New Rhubarb Culture, 1901. (1901) (1903) (1909)Bland, Reginald. Winter rhubarb, culture and marketing, 1915.Foust, Clifford M. (1992). Rhubarb: the wondrous drug. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08747-4.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rhubarb" . Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.Rhubarb at CurlieRhubarb Info from the Rhubarb CompendiumThere are about 1080 species of Acacia accepted by Plants of the World Online as at November 2023, with species native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Hawaii and the Mascarene Islands, and introduced to other countries. [1]
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
Photosynthesis ( / ˌfoʊtəˈsɪnθəsɪs / FOH-tə-SINTH-ə-sis) [1] is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their activities.
