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A hungry bumble bee arrives on an uncurling Dandelion – Photo courtesy of George Pilkington– see lots of things you can do to help nature in your garden including George’s great bumblebee nest boxes at https://nurturing-nature.co.uk urn:lcp:florabritannica0000mabe:epub:a7e89a61-e663-4b55-8d31-d050efd0e701 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier florabritannica0000mabe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2m2n10wcfd Invoice 1652 Isbn 1856193772 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9943 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000162 Openlibrary_edition Additionally, there is another classification depending on the original land of the plants; native flora and non-native flora. Of some 2,000 species of fish in India, about one-fifth live in fresh water. Common edible freshwater fish include catfish and several members of the carp family, notably the mahseer, which grows up to 6.5 feet (2 metres) and 200 pounds (90 kg). Sharks are found in India’s coastal waters and sometimes travel inland through major estuaries. Commercially valuable marine shellfish species include shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters, pearl oysters, and conchs. Mabey’s mother signed his paperwork for Oxford University. At 18, in 1959, he applied for biochemistry, unaware of what the degree involved but seduced by the grandeur and scope of the “bio” part. He switched to politics, philosophy and economics, the degree of the modern Westminster politician, after writing a letter to the department on 16 sides of Basildon Bond. He attended the lectures of Isaiah Berlin (“3,000 people crammed in the theatre. He’d direct his words to the top right of the crowd”) and had moral philosophy tutorials under Iris Murdoch, “who was very relaxed and more interested in talking about CND [the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]”.

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Yes, it did,” Mabey says. “I knew I had no escape this time. I can remember very vividly the sort of get-out lines that I had with women before: ‘I just have to let you know I’ve got to look after my mum.’ And I can remember, I had a quite nice fling with [the actress] Liza Goddard for a couple of years, and she said to me, ‘There are two women in your life, Richard, and you’ve got to decide which one.’”

Some of these endemic species have become exceedingly rare. Most of the remaining single-horned Javan rhinoceroses, for example, are now restricted to the Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Java. This nearly extinct species is one of the world’s most highly protected forms of wildlife. Another such endangered species is the orangutan, which is native to Borneo and Sumatra. Several orangutan rehabilitation centres and programs have been established in an effort to prevent the capture and slaughter of the animals and to train those that have been held captive to return to the wild. Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Flora definition & meaning. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved April 26, 2022, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flora#synonyms

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India forms an important segment of what is known as the Oriental, or Sino-Indian, biogeographic region, which extends eastward from India to include mainland and much of insular Southeast Asia. Its fauna are numerous and highly diverse. Mammals It is unique in that it is not a botanical flora but a cultural one - an account of the role of wild plants in social life, arts, custom and landscape. It is also unique in that information has been supplied by the people themselves. Five years of intensive original research have aroused popular interest and 'grassroots' involvement on an exceptional scale. People all over Britain - both rural and urban - have been encouraged to record and celebrate the cultural dimensions of their own flora, and to send their memories and anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge to Flora Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Moss. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/plant/moss-plantRemaining at home, he says, was “pathological”. “Initially, I was worried that if I ventured out by myself, my mum would lose support. But then it became about me losing support, the house I had grown up in. So it was quite neurotic, my staying there, and that’s eventually what made me ill.” There’s another thing there that fascinates me,” he says. “Our dear leader actually uttered this phrase: ‘We must be humble in the face of nature.’ He was publicly declaring, in a way that I don’t think was fully comprehended, that the virus was part of nature. We were being reconnected with it on rather a large scale. We really need to think about what we mean by ‘nature’ much more seriously. It is such a glib word.” Less poetically, as many children have discovered, you can also use it to make a ‘raspberry’ or farting noise. Here are the instructions given by Mabey: ‘‘Take a long stalk of dandelion, remove the head, and split one downwards approximately half an inch. Place the split end inside your mouth and blow gently. A raspberry should be made”. Tropical Rainforest Plant List, Information, Pictures and Facts. Wild. (2019, May 2). Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://www.activewild.com/tropical-rainforest-plants-list/

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Lawnageddon was made for the Fairyland Trust by a team of volunteers. Our thanks go to them and Ben Partridge and his mum Jo for letting us borrow their garden – and Ben’s lawn-mower. c) Pteridophyta: this type is the oldest type of vascular plant. This type can be considered a bryophyte but with a tissue that can be used to conduct water. In this type, the organs that are responsible for reproductivity are unclear. In addition, the embryo of this type is naked. Reptiles are well represented in India. Crocodiles inhabit the country’s rivers, swamps, and lakes. The estuarine crocodile ( Crocodilus porosus)—once attaining a maximum length of 30 feet (9 metres), though specimens exceeding 20 feet (6 metres) are now rare—usually lives on the fish, birds, and crabs of muddy deltaic regions. The long-snouted gavial, or gharial ( Gavialis gangeticus), a species similar to the crocodile, is endemic to northern India; it is found in a number of large rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. Of the nearly 400 species of snakes, one-fifth are venomous. Kraits and cobras are particularly widespread venomous species. King cobras often grow to at least 12 feet (3.6 metres) long. The Indian python frequents marshy areas and grasslands. Lizards also are widespread, and turtles are found throughout India, especially along the eastern coast. Then there’s the more serious depression, which is not so much about me, but about the world, and I think that it’s creative – or at least, I hope it is – because I suppose I’m a bit of a contrarian about the idea that nature is always there to make you well.”Mabey also points out that in Cambridgeshire the poor used to harvest Dandelions on a large scale to sell to chemists who made them into liver and kidney tonic, and that in the C19th they were grown by the gentry for winter salad and against gout caused be excessive drinking of port, as they were good for ‘flushing out the kidneys’. Tropical moist deciduous forests generally occur in areas with 60 to 80 inches (1,500 to 2,000 mm) of rainfall, such as the northern part of the Eastern Ghats, east-central India, and western Karnataka. Dry deciduous forests, which grow in places receiving less than 60 inches (1,500 mm) of precipitation, characterize the subhumid and semiarid regions of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, eastern Rajasthan, central Andhra Pradesh, and western Tamil Nadu. Teak, sal ( Shorea robusta), axle-wood ( Anogeissus latifolia), tendu, ain, and Adina cardifolia are some of the major deciduous species. wait for then to arrive and then do not spray them – start by not cutting your lawn and see what comes up. It might be a lot more than just dandelions – daisies, clover and other wildflowers may also spring up when they get the chance.