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unusual facts about Nettle-leaved bellflower



1712 Huilliche rebellion

In retrospective Huilliches considered the abuses of José de Andrade detonant of the rebellion and one of his abuses in particular: the whipping of Martín Antucan an Indian he tied to an apple tree and to then flog his genitals with nettles to be then covered in tow and set afire.

Autographa ampla

They prefer willow and poplar, but have also been recorded on alder, birch, blueberry, Shepherdia canadensis, cherry, elder, raspberry, Amelanchier species, stinging nettle and Viburnum species

BeOS API

The Network kit provides either a rudimentary (BeOS R5 and lower) or almost complete (BeOS Dano and higher) implementation of Berkeley sockets and BIND as well as "native" functions based on the Nettle C++ networking library.

Brose

Other ingredients, such as nettle tops, kale, and swede may be added to the basic brose (Davidson op.cit.).

Diachrysia chrysitis

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, such as nettle, Lamium, thistles and oregano.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Eustache Deschamps wrote a ballade on the great translator and called himself a "nettle in Chaucer's garden of poetry".

HMS Nettle

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nettle, after the stinging nettle, a species of flowering plants.

House Finch

They primarily eat grains, seeds and berries, being voracious consumers of weed seeds such as nettle and dandelion; included are incidental small insects such as aphids.

Macdunnoughia confusa

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants such as Lamium, nettle, Artemisia absinthium and chamomile.

Mount Bozgush

Tulips are cultivated on the rich volcanic soil of Mount Bozgush, and medicinal herbs such as pennyroyal, thyme, borage, nettle and liquorice grow wild on the mountain's slopes.

Naval Station Sangley Point

The Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard Ship Nettle played a vital role in search-and-rescue operations and in the maintenance of remote long-range aid-to navigation (LORAN) stations located throughout the Philippines.

Nettle soup

In Maeve Binchy's posthumously published, final novel, A Week in Winter (2012, Orion), Irish native Frank Hanratty takes an American visitor he has befriended, an actor masquerading as "John", to visit "an old film director", who serves them nettle soup (Chapter 5, page 63).

Ongaonga

Urtica incisa, a dwarf bush nettle native to Australia and New Zealand

Ortiguera

The name Ortiguera comes from the word "ortiga", which is nettle in Spanish.

P. lepida

Parasa lepida, the nettle caterpillar or blue-striped nettle grub, a moth species found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia

Salish weaving

The other types of material used to weave were Indian hemp, nettle fibre, milkweed fibre, rushes and reeds, willow bark and more recently, domesticated sheep wool.

Stonehill Down Nature Reserve

In early summer, Common spotted, Early purple and Bee orchid may be seen, whilst in late summer and early autumn, Autumn Lady's-tresses, Autumn gentian (or Felwort) and Nettle-leaved bellflower are in bloom.

Tread softly

Cnidoscolus stimulosus (Spurge Nettle), a plant of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae)

Urziceni

Founded by Romanian shepherds, its name is derived from the word "urzică" (nettle).


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