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2 unusual facts about Grass


Broom-Grass

In tropical Asia it refers to Thysanchaena maxima of the family Poaceae; a tall, <3m, grass which is indeed used for making brooms.

Wild grass

Wild Grass, the English-language title of Les Herbes folles, a 2009 film directed by Alain Resnais.


2007 Caribou Hills fire

In addition to the dry grass in the area, the Kenai Peninsula was still recovering from an infestation of spruce bark beetles that had killed thousands of acres of trees during the late 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in an enormous "tinder box" in the largely unpopulated area of Caribou Hills.

Al Rosas

Nicknamed and trademarked as The Organic Chef, he runs the Rosas Farms in Marion County, which produces and sells all grass-fed and organic foods.

Alloteropsis semialata

Alloteropsis semialata, known commonly as black seed grass, cockatoo grass, donkersaad gras, swartsaadgras, tweevingergras, and isi quinti, is a perennial grass distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of Africa, Asia and Australasia, including Pacific Islands and Madagascar.

Artificial turf

In just 13 years, between 1992 and 2005, the National League went from having half of its teams using artificial turf to all of them playing on natural grass.

Burkholderia bannensis

Burkholderia bannensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from highly acidic swamps from torpedo grass (Panicum repens) in Thailand.

Chiswick Eyot

Chiswick Eyot was used during the industrial revolution mostly for the growing of grass and osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, cart-making, as well as cattle fodder).

Chrysopogon aciculatus

Common names include amorseco (Spanish, "dry love") (not to be confused with the amor seco tree, Alchornea glandulosa), lesser spear grass, Mackie's pest, pilipiliula, and grama-amorosa (Brazilian Portuguese).

Cis-3-Hexenal

cis-3-Hexenal, also known as (Z)-3-hexenal and leaf aldehyde, is colorless liquid and an aroma compound with an intense grassy-green odor of freshly cut green grass and leaves.

Clothed male, naked female

Édouard Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass"), in which a nude woman is depicted having lunch with two fully clothed men, is another famous painting whose themes were controversial when it was first displayed in 1863.

Cortaderia selloana

A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area.

Curvularia protuberata

The mutualism allows the grass to thrive in soil that is 65°C in Yellowstone National Park.

Cynegetis impunctata

Adults and larvae are vegetarian and polyphagous, on grasses such as couch-grass (Elymus repens), false oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius) and reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea).

Desmostachya

Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf (commonly known variously as, Kusha grass, Kusa grass, or Darbha Grass )

Eagle Creek Golf Club

Eagle Creek Golf Club was the first golf course in Florida to use Mini Verde Grass on its greens, and the first course in central Florida to offer PrecedentGolf Cars made by Club Car.

Erechthias kerri

The larvae feed on dead plant material of bunch grass, Eragrostis and Nicotiana species.

F. rubra

Festuca rubra, the red fescue, a grass species found worldwide

Fangcaoxin

Fangcaoxin (芳草心 "Fangfang, heart of grass") is a 1983 Chinese-language western-style opera or musical, and 1986 film.

Foundation of Melbourne

As the land he travelled through was mostly treeless, and covered in dense swards of Kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra), it was, he wrote, "Land of the best description, equal to any in the world... the most beautiful sheep pasturage I ever saw in my life."

Frank Oberle, Sr.

Later, he fled the Red Army advance, surviving on grass and stolen eggs while walking 800 kilometres to his home village in the Black Forest.

Gene St. Leon

On February 7, 1976, St. Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Grass Range, Montana

Thomas Siebel, corporate officer and owner of two ranches in the Grass Range area.

Grass Yellow

Eurema hecabe, a species in this genus usually called the Common Grass Yellow or Large Grass Yellow

Grassella Oliphant

His 1968 release The Grass Is Greener featured John Patton on organ, Grant Green on guitar, and Clark Terry on trumpet, in addition to Ousley and Holley again.

Hardington Mandeville

The rare French oat-grass is very abundant on the site and the fields are home to a wide variety of plant species, most notably adder's tongue, corky-fruited water-dropwort and large numbers of green-winged orchid.

Ingham, Lincolnshire

Ingham consisted of three grass runways, and three Polish Squadrons (including No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron) from 1st Polish Wing were based here, joined later by No. 199 Squadron RAF.

Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss

Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss is the third album by American band Hayseed Dixie, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music).

KNCO

KNCO-FM, a radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Grass Valley, California, United States

Lerkendal Stadion

The pitch has Desso GrassMaster, a natural grass pitch with artificial fibers sown in for increase strength.

Linda Finch

Finch came upon it stored in a hangar at a small grass strip airport near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin where it had been sitting for years; the wings were off, the engines had been sold and various other parts were missing.

Linda Willis

Willis stated to assassination researcher and author Richard Trask (“Pictures of the Pain” 1994) that after the assassination she and her sister Rosemary also saw someone find a piece of the president's head that had landed in the grass located at least twenty-two feet to the left of the president.

Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse

The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing.

Meramec River

Grass-roots opposition forced politicians originally in favor of the project to reconsider.

Michael Peter Woroniecki

"The grass and goalposts were the same but I was changed" says Woroniecki, adding that he found significance in the recently painted Touchdown Jesus on the library mural right in front of him.

Modern competitive archery

Most targets in competitive archery use some kind of stalks of grain or grass and may be constructed of marsh grass woven into a rope then wrapped around into a target.

Neville Hiscock

Neville and his younger brother Dave Hiscock grew up in Stokes Valley, a suburb near Wellington, where they both rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks, and later perfected their skills on the infamous Rimutaka hill climb nearby north of Upper Hutt.

Omocestus viridulus

O. viridulus feeds on grass from the genera Dactylis, Agrostis, Anthoxanthum, Lolium and Holcus.

Ottawa Soccer Stadium

The field would have had a natural grass surface built to MLS and FIFA specifications.

Phalaris angusta

Calves that eat the grass develop neurological signs such as tremors and convulsions and gross examination of their brain tissue reveals large blue-green lesions.

Raskovnik

While razkovniche and raskovnik are the customary names in Bulgarian and Serbian respectively and the root is also preserved in the Leskovac dialect as raskov, in some parts of Macedonia it is known as ež trava ("hedgehog grass").

Samson Option

In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.

Sea Drift

Sea-Drift, a section of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass

Silbury Hill

The hill's vegetation is species-rich chalk grassland, dominated by Upright Brome and False Oat-grass, but with many species characteristic of this habitat, including a strong population of the rare Knapweed Broomrape.

TACA Airlines

The plane landed without further damage on a grass levee at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.

Telus Field

surface = FieldTurf (infield) 2005 to present
Astroturf (infield) 1995 to 2004

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Meeting at Telgte

Theodore Ziolkowski wrote in The New York Times that "Grass has chosen his historical analogy with brilliant precision" and that "the book is diverting as a history of 17th-century German literature, liberally sprinkled with quotations from the works and poetic treatises of the period".

Union Hill, California

The Union Hill School District, established in 1868, continues to operate in Grass Valley.

Verdigris

This degradation is to blame for the brown or bronze color of grass or foliage in many old paintings, although not typically those of the "Flemish primitive" painters such as Jan van Eyck, who often used normal verdigris.

Volo Bog State Natural Area

The entire state park displays a microcosm of plant succession, from bog, through wetland, to sedge-grass meadow.

Windlesham

In 1911 the village was due to the heath, see Surrey Heath, described as almost entirely modern, in much the same way as Wentworth, Surrey's landscape was tamed approximately at the turn of the 20th century, being naturally heather, gorse and fern and ideal for grass and laid out evergreen trees.


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