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Flora-Bama

The Flora-Bama was originally constructed in 1964, two years after the road (Alabama State Route 182) connecting Orange Beach, AL with Perdido Key, FL was completed.


Aadnya Borkar

She will be busy in Indian Winx On Ice with All 6 Winx Club Girls Bloom,Flora,Layla,Musa,Stella and Tecna with also Italian caroonist Iginio Straffi and cartoonist of Singapore, Joanne Lee in New Delhi.

Avraham Eilat

The contrast between man made geometrical shapes of fishponds and the free flowing of the flora and typical hilly landscape of the Hula Valley area, crystallized his visual language and determined its formal and thematic foundations.

Beelu National Park

The park contains an abundance of native flora including Jarrah, Marri, Zamia, Bull Banksia, Sheoak and Grass tree.

Black Range State Park

In addition to natural flora and fauna, the park protects Aboriginal art and occupation sites of the Jardwadjali people.

Brixton Street Wetlands

Four of the species are classified as Declared Rare Flora, including the Purdie's donkey orchid (Diuris Purdiei).

Cipanas

Locally present fauna include the silvery gibbon, Javan surili and Sunda Thrush, and flora include Elaeocarpus macrocerus, Alstonia spathulata, Mangifera gedebe (a member of the mango family), Stemonurus secundiflorus, and Thoracostachyrum sumatrana (a large sedge).

Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State

The Convention was the result of the 1933 International Conference for the Protection of the Fauna and Flora of Africa, presided over by Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow, then president of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire.

Dagny Tande Lid

She is also represented in several of the popular papers and books by Danish-Canadian botanist Erling Porsild, including Edible plants of the Arctic (1953), Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957), and Rocky Mountain wild flowers (1974).

Dom Flora

Dominick A. "Dom" Flora (born June 12, 1935) is a former American college basketball standout at Washington & Lee University (W&L), located in Lexington, Virginia.

Elizabeth Jill Cowley

Her interests have included the tropical flora of East Africa and the genus Roscoea.

Emory Peak

High-desert flora and fauna including alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), pinyon pine (Pinus cembroides), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.), Mexican Jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi), sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), and Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis) may be seen along the trail.

Emu Heights, New South Wales

Clissold Park is host to great diversity of Australia's fauna and flora and features basketball, netball and children's playground facilities.

Fiddleford

Interesting flora grows in the different seasons, such as holly in the winter, and the Dunce Cap (Conocybe) Mushroom in the autumn.

Flora Bramley

In 1928, she was selected to be a WAMPAS Baby Star (sometimes mis-credited as Flora Bromley), receiving a good amount of publicity.

Flora Thompson

Flora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907.

Galley Down Wood

Although the ground flora largely consists of ivy (Hedera helix) and sanicle (Sanicula europaea), there are several other species present, including three scarce orchids: bird's-nest orchid (Neottia nidus-avis), white helleborine (Cephalanthera damasonium), fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera), greater butterfly orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) and sword-leaved helleborine (Cephalanthera longifolia).

Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka

He wrote Flora silesiaca, and named many plants, notably Quercus petraea.

Hoodia

Hoodia is currently listed in Appendix II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which includes species not currently considered endangered but are at risk if trade is not controlled.

James Francis Macbride

In 1921, Macbride joined the staff of the Department of Botany at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to head the nascent Flora of Peru program.

James Tyson

Enid Moberly Bell (1947:124-126) recounts a chance meeting between Tyson and Flora Shaw on a long train journey: although vastly different in background, they had "a fundamental agreement on values - indifference to wealth, delight in adventure, satisfaction in work accomplished ..." - see E.M.Bell (1947) Flora Shaw: Lady Lugard, D.B.E. Constable.

Job Edward Lousley

He died in 1976 at Streatham Common and his herbarium was donated to the University of Reading, and some of his notebooks, photos, papers, letters and the manuscript of the flora of Scilly are held in the archives of the Isles of Scilly Museum.

Johannes Lid

After his retirement in 1956 he made indepth studies of the flora of the Canary Islands.

Kon Ka Kinh National Park

Besides the biological diversity of the flora and fauna here, Kon Ka Kinh plays an important role in the protection of the upstream of the Ba River and the Dak Pne River, which supply water for tens of square kilometres of crops areas of Gia Lai Province and Kon Tum Province.

Lady Flora Hastings

The unmarried Lady Flora was alleged to have had an affair with John Conroy, the "favourite" and also suspected lover of the Duchess of Kent.

Laverstock and Ford

Cockey Down, a grassy hill to the east of Laverstock, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a protected area that has interesting flora and fauna.

Linny Pacillo Parking Garage

The art in the garage, under the 1 Percent for Art Program, includes art inspired by Alaska flora and fauna on each garage level, a piece in the main elevator lobby that tells the Parking Fairies story, and a mural over the Seventh Avenue exit titled "Focus on Statehood" that features four men instrumental in Alaska's becoming a state: Bob Atwood, Bill Egan, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening.

Louisa Stevenson

Louisa was one of a large family including her fellow-campaigner and sister Flora, the architect John James Stevenson, and MP James Cochran Stevenson.

Malshej Ghat

The site is home to hundreds of different kinds of flora and fauna especially the avian population such as quails, rails, crakes, flamingos and cuckoos.

Martin Milmore

By his 20th birthday Milmore received a commission for three giant figures ("Ceres", "Flora" and "Pomona") for the front of the Horticultural Hall in Boston; the restored versions are now on display at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.

Mehan Garden

For his publications on Philippine flora, Vidal not only collected specimens, but also studied Malesian flora held in European herbaria, such as the Kew herbarium.

Mount Lofty Botanic Garden

Amongst the native Australian flora there are tree ferns, as well as exotic cultivated plants from cool climates including Rhododendron and Magnolia and the National Species Rose Collection.

Nahal Poleg

Flora in the reserve includes a coastal variety of Boxthorn, Ephedra aphylla, Calicotome villosa, the endemic Rumex rothschildianus, Iris atropurpurea, Lupin, and Tulipa agenensis sharonensis.

Netarhat Residential School

Netarhat (23°28'48"N 84°16'11"E) is located at an elevation of 1250 meters and is renowned for spectacular sunrises, sunsets, waterfalls, and beautiful flora and fauna.

Northeast Cape Fear River

The river and its valley are home to a variety of interesting and uncommon flora and fauna, including the palmetto, cypress, alligator, pileated woodpecker and bowfin.

Oleaceae

Relict forests retain endemic fauna and flora in communities of great value in inferring the palaeontological succession and climate change that followed the breakups of the supercontinents.

Oman Botanic Garden

Although the country is mostly arid, the seasonal rainforest of Dhofar, in the south of Oman, is lush during the summer monsoon or Khareef (July – September) and is home to most of the country’s endemic flora.

One Lucky Elephant

The film focuses on the extraordinary human-animal bond between Circus Flora founder, Ivor David Balding, and Flora an endangered African elephant, and their journey to find her a permanent home that leads them to The Elephant Sanctuary (Hohenwald).

Otto Wilhelm Thomé

Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840–1925) was a German botanist and botanical artist from Cologne best known for his compendium of botanical illustrations Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Wort und Bild für Schule und Haus (Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Word and Picture for School and Home) first of 4 volumes with a total of 572 botanical illustrations, published in 1885 in Gera, Germany.

Petaluma River

Endangered flora include Soft Bird’s-Beak (Cordylanthus mollis ssp. mollis), Baker’s Stickyseed (Blennosperma bakeri), Burke’s Goldfields (Lasthenia burkei), Showy Indian clover (Trifolium amoenum), Sebastopol meadowfoam (Limnanthes vinculans).

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

In addition to its primary flora exhibits, the sophisticated glass and metalwork of the Lord & Burnham conservatory offers an interesting example of Victorian greenhouse architecture.

Quercus alnifolia

Quercus alnifolia belongs to the endemic flora of the island and it is confined to the igneous geological complex of the Troodos Mountains.

Radermachera

The genus is named after Jacob Cornelis Matthieu Radermacher, the 18th century Dutch naturalist who cataloged much of the flora of Java and Sumatra.

Ransol

The Ransol valley is particularly noted for the diversity of its flora and fauna.

Simón de Roxas Clemente y Rubio

For almost two years he travelled about the Granada, Jeréz de la Frontera and Sanlúcar areas collecting samples of wild and cultivated plants, observing agricultural practices, noting soil characteristics, micro-climates, and the adaptation of the flora to their natural environment.

Skiing in Victoria, Australia

The Australian High Country is populated by unique flora and fauna including wombats, wallabies, echidnas, and the Snow Gum.

South Exmoor SSSI

The most abundant tree species is Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea), the shrub layer is very sparse and the ground flora includes Bracken, Bilberry and a variety of mosses.

Swakop River

In the arid lower reaches there is a more limited flora on the Swakop River valley itself, with the typical gallery vegetation from Ana Trees (Faidherbia albida), tamarisk (Tamarix), camel thorn (Acacia erioloba), Salvadora, various fig species, Euclea and also tobacco (Nicotiana spp.), Jimsonweed (Datura) and mesquite (Prosopis spp.) as invasive species.

Walter Crane

Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers had lithographic reproductions of Crane's line drawings washed in with watercolour; he also decorated in colour The Wonder Book of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Deland's Old Garden.

West Thurrock

Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ.


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