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Ornamental

Ornamental plant, a plant that is grown for its ornamental qualities


927 Fifth Avenue

The co-op became well-known when Pale Male, a Red-tailed Hawk that nests on ornamental stonework above a 12th-floor window, was featured an episode of the PBS series Nature.

A. gigantea

Aristolochia gigantea, the Brazilian Dutchman's pipe or giant pelican flower, an ornamental plant species

A. nigrum

Allium nigrum, the black garlic, broadleaf garlic, an ornamental plant species

Allan Williams

He named the venue the Jacaranda, after an exotic species of ornamental flowering tree, jacaranda mimosifolia.

Anhydrite

A peculiar variety occurring as contorted concretionary masses is known as tripe-stone, and a scaly granular variety, from Volpino, near Bergamo, in Lombardy, as vulpinite; the latter is cut and polished for ornamental purposes.

Arthropodium cirratum

Often grown as an ornamental, but occurs naturally north of Greymouth and Kaikoura near the sea and, as the name suggests usually on rocks.

Ausmultiplikation

Ausmultiplikation (literally, "multiplying-out") is a German term used by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen to describe a technique in which a long note is replaced by shorter, "melodic configurations internally animated around central tones", resembling the ornamental technique of divisions (also called "diminutions") in Renaissance music.

Bachelor's buttons

Centaurea montana, native to Europe, excluding the British Isles, and cultivated as a perennial ornamental plant

Bedgebury National Pinetum

whose Colepeper heirs, financed by mining clay-ironstone on the estate, were resident until at the time of the restoration of Charles II, and who created an ornamental park on the Bedgebury estate.

Black-throated Mango

-- the redirect to crista-galli is in error --> or Stifftia chrysantha; certain ornamental Bignoniaceae like Fountain Tree (Spathodea campanulata) seem more to this bird's liking.

Camelops

Workers digging a hole for an ornamental citrus tree found the bones of two (juvenile and infant) animals that may have lived about 10,000 years ago.

Cannon Hill Park

A scale model of the Elan Valley Reservoirs, in the form of ornamental ponds, is located in a Japanese garden near the mac.

Castle in Hagley Park

The building of the castle (and another folly called the rotunda), was started in 1747 while Sir Thomas Lyttelton was still alive (he died in 1751) so he was not opposed to the modernisation of his park with suitable fashionable ornamental follies, but the credit for its creation is usually given to his son and heir Gorge Lyttelton (the future 1st Lord Lyttelton).

Ceramics of Jalisco

The Tonalá tradition became known as “Tonalá ware” “Polished ornamental ware” or “Guadalajara polychrome.” A number of these pieces were exported Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, mostly to Spain but examples reached Italy and other areas.

Chaenostoma cordatum

Chaenostoma cordatum also known by the name Sutera cordata, Bacopa or Ornamental Bacopa (not to be confused with the genus of that name) is one of 52 species in the genus Chaenostoma (Scrophulariaceae), and is best known in its cultivated forms.

Duponchelia fovealis

Hosts include a wide range of mostly herbaceous ornamental plants and field crops, such as Anemone, Anthurium, Begonia, Cyclamen, Euphorbia, Gerbera, Kalanchoe, Limonium, Rosa, certain aquatic plants, corn, cucumbers, peppers, pomegranate, tomatoes, and certain herbs.

East Lancashire Railway 1844–59

In the end the ELR won its bid, but had to landscape its embankment (which later became the dividing line between Avenham and Miller Parks), make an ornamental arch for carriages and pedestrians crossing under the railway, and build a footbridge on the river viaduct.

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

It is a very popular ornamental and street tree, Ferntree gully road in Melbourne has an avenue of Muggas planted.

F. rubra

Filipendula rubra, the queen-of-the-prairie, a medicinal and ornamental plant species native to the United States

Flag and seal of Virginia

The ornamental border on both sides of the seal consists of sprigs of Parthenocissus quinquefolia, or commonly, Virginia Creeper.

Flowering almond

Prunus tenella, Dwarf Russian Almond, grown as an ornamental plant

Francesco De Lorenzi

Francesco De Lorenzi (Varese, 1827- Campomorone, June 16, 1900) was an Italian painter, mainly of ornamental fresco decoration.

Glenveagh

The network of mainly informal gardens displays a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from as far afield as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania, all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.

Hubcap

Hubcaps were immortalized in the Art Deco styling near the top of one rung of setbacks (ornamental frieze) incorporates ncorporates a band of hubcaps on the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan.

Hugo Palma-Ibarra

Palma-Ibarra later spent 1960-1977 in Italy where he attended and studied medicine at the University of Florence, studied painting at the School of Ornamental Arts in San Giacomo, Rome, and took art and history courses at the Academy of San Marcos.

Illogan

It was part of an ornamental garden for the old Rectory now called Maningham - now a private house - built of bath stone in 1783 for the Rev John Basset, brother of Lord De ­Dunstanville whose monument is seen on Carn Brea.

Jali

A jali or jaali, (Gujarati: જાળી) is the term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, usually with an ornamental pattern constructed through the use of calligraphy and geometry.

Joseph Breck

In 1856, he published The Flower Garden, a book about the cultivation of ornamental plants such as perennials, annuals, shrubs and evergreen trees.

Justicia umbrosa

Justicia umbrosa (Brazilian plume, Yellow Jacobinia; syn. Adhatoda umbrosa Ness, and Justicia aurea Schltdl.) is an ornamental shrub native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.

Kildangan

Kildangan is home to the world famous Kildangan Stud, which was founded by the More O'Ferrells, on the site of Kildangan Castle, and the grounds of which contain a variety of rare ornamental trees and shrubs, and an abundance of woodland.

Korean cherry

Prunus japonica is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree or shrub

Lizard's tail

Saururus cernuus, also known as Water-dragon or Swamp Root, a medicinal and ornamental plant native to eastern North America

Louis-Jules André

His best-known work is probably the Museum of Natural History (now the Gallery of Evolution) in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, a transitional work combining classical rhythms and ornamental details with cast-iron structure and a glass roof.

Malanga

Xanthosoma, also known as Malanga, a tropical and sub-tropical edible or ornamental plant

McLean's Mansion

The ornamental chairs were fitted with regency brocade fabrics while a Persian carpet was a striking feature of the room.

Miller v. Schoene

The State entomologist in Virginia acting under the Cedar Rust Act of Virginia ordered the plaintiffs' ornamental red cedar trees growing on the plaintiffs' property to be removed to prevent the spread of rust disease to nearby apple orchards.

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

Along the way, he stopped to work on the ornamental façade of the Château de la Mosson at Juvignac, near Montpellier, spending 18 months on the project.

Ochna serrulata

Ochna serrulata (commonly known as the mall-leaved plane, carnival ochna, Bird's Eye Bush or Mickey Mouse bush due to the plant's bright-red sepals, which resemble the face of Mickey Mouse) is an ornamental garden plant of the Ochnaceae family which is indigenous to South Africa.

Pethia padamya

This fish is also known as the ornamental fish species "Odessa barb" because it was said to have first appeared in pet enthusiast’s circles in Odessa, Ukraine in the early 1970s.

Sim's Park, Coonoor

The garden as some rare economic trees like Rudraksh- bead tree, Cinnamomum, Queensland karry pine, a handsome ornamental tree and graceful trees like Araucaria, Quercus, Phoenix, Magnolia, Pine, Turpentine, Tree ferns, Camellia this is all are as many attractions in this park.

Spartium

It is one of the most common ornamental plants, often seen growing along sidewalks in La Paz.

Taphrina wiesneri

It is an important pest species of the ornamental cherry Cerasus X yedoensis in Japan.

Tibetan prayer wheel

The cylinders of fixed prayer wheels are often inscribed with the formula “Om mani padme hum” (meaning “jewel in the lotus”) in ornamental Lantsa (Ranjana) letters.

Tomato mosaic virus

Besides Solanaceous plants, ToMV affects a wide range of other crop and ornamental plants.


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