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unusual facts about Lilac-crowned Parrot



1104 Syringa

It was named after Syringa (Lilac), the genus of flowering woody plants in the olive family (Oleaceae).

Barbara Angell

On stage she starred again for the Tivoli in Lilac Time with John Larsen and in The Wizard of Oz as Glinda the Good Witch opposite Reg Livermore's Wicked Witch.

Cape lilac

Melia azedarach, native to Australasia and commonly referred to as "cape lilac" in Australia

Charles Wellington Furse

Such are the Diana of the Uplands, the Lord Roberts and The Return from the Ride at the Tate Gallery; the four children in the Cubbing with the York and Ainsty, The Lilac Gown, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fishing and the portraits of Lord Charles Beresford and William Johnson Cory.

Colross

To the north of the mansion was located a garden, purportedly well known for its boxwoods, lilacs, and roses.

Edition Lilac

Edition Lilac is an independent record label formed in 2004.

Elizabeth Triegaardt

She received the Nederburg Prize for her contribution to ballet and her role as the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty.

Gavan Naden

Gavan Naden is an award winning journalist and co-author of Frances: The Remarkable Story Of Princess Diana's Mother, and The Lilac Days. Both books were written in collaboration with Maxine Riddington.

Golden Acre Park

The gardens contain the National Plant Collections of Lilac, Deutzia, Hosta and Hemerocallis.

Inna Zubkovskaya

She danced many major roles of the classical repertory, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Kitri in Don Quixote, the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and the title role of La Esmeralda.

Lilac Domino

A film version was released in the UK in 1937 and in the U.S. in 1940, starring Michael Bartlett as Count Anatole and June Knight as Shari, the Lilac Domino.

Entitled The Lilac Domino, with an English libretto by Harry B. Smith, lyrics by Robert B. Smith, and additional songs by Howard Carr and Donovan Parsons, it opened on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre on October 28, 1914, produced by Andreas Dippel.

Lilac rabbit

In 1917, a Gouda, Holland breeder named C.H. Spruty crossed Blue Beverens with Havanas to create a larger lilac rabbit called the Gouda or Gowenaar.

Lilac Time

Das Dreimäderlhaus, a 1922 operetta also produced under the name Lilac Time

Lilac Wine

The Argentinian alternative rock band Panza has also covered "Lilac Wine" on their 2007 album Pequeños Fracasos (Little Failures).

Lilac witches'-broom

Certain cultivars of lilacs appear to be more susceptible, notably those of the Preston Lilac Series developed at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa Canada.

Mary Ellen Solt

Her work was most notably poems in the shape of flowers such as "Forsythia", "Lilac", and "Geranium".

Maxine Riddington

The Lilac Days is the story of a secret love affair between the grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, Lord Fermoy, and an American woman, Edith Travis.

Maxine Riddington, commonly known as "Max Riddington", is a journalist and co-author of The Lilac Days and Frances: The Remarkable Story Of Princess Diana's Mother. Both books were written in collaboration with Gavan Naden.

Minnesota State Highway 100

The Golden Valley Garden Club supported efforts to plant lilacs along the highway, and the Minneapolis Journal coined the name "Lilac Way".

Nick Duffy

In 1989, Nick formed Bait after The Lilac Time's idea for a double album was rejected by their label Fontana.

Otto Finsch

Some species of parrot bear his name, including the Lilac-crowned Parrot Amazona finschi and the Grey-headed Parakeet Psittacula finschii.

Pride of India

:* Melia azedarach - Also known as chinaberry, Persian lilac, white cedar, Texas umbrella, bead-tree, Cape lilac, Ceylon cedar, bead-tree or Cape lilac

Queen Victoria Lilac and Green Issue

The colours were used because the authorities were concerned that the existing stamps were being soaked off envelopes and reused, and they wished to use fugitive inks that would wash away if immersed in water; the only fugitive ink colours available at the time were lilac and green.

Skylands

In 1966 the entire estate was bought by the State of New Jersey to form a State Botanical Garden whose settings include a Lilac Garden, Magnolia Walk, the Wild Flower Garden, the Crab Apple Vista, an allée of 166 trees extending almost a half-mile, and the Perennial Garden.

Syringa vulgaris

--no italics for hybrid symbol ×-->, the finer, smaller "Persian lilac", now considered a natural hybrid — were introduced into European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century, from Ottoman gardens, not through botanists exploring the Balkan habitats of S. vulgaris.

The Lilac Time

I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1991 tribute CD w/The Lilac Time's cover of "Bird on a Wire")

The Locusts

Robert Lasher also describes a clapboard outhouse he and his siblings knew as the "Lilac House", from the surrounding bushes, from his childhood visits in the 1920s.

Verdugo Mountains

Among the shrub species that characterize this community, prominent in the Verdugos are laurel sumac (Malosma laurina), toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum), chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) and two species of California-lilac (Ceanothus crassifolius and C. oliganthus).

Walter Hunnewell Arboretum

The collection of specimen trees and shrubs include towering American White and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese Golden Larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries and rhododendrons.

William, It Was Really Nothing

The original artwork depicted comes from an early 1980s advertisement for A.D.S. speakers (the object on the bed is a speaker), however due to legal reasons later pressings were produced with new artwork, a lilac-tinted still of Billie Whitelaw from the film Charlie Bubbles, directed by Albert Finney.


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