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unusual facts about rosette



Beaver hat

Emperor Norton I wore a beaver hat decorated with a peacock feather and rosette.

Camissoniopsis luciae

It is a hairy annual herb producing an erect stem up to half a meter tall from a basal rosette.

Chrysolius

The rosette in the façade of the church of Saint-Vaast at Wambrechies depicts Chrysolius, along with saints Hubert, Benedict, and Bernard.

Dichanthelium

Dichanthelium koolauense (H.St.John & Hosaka) C.A.Clark & Gould – Koolau rosette grass

Galanthus nivalis

pleniflorus 'Walrus' — a curious double, its outers resemble narrow, tubular, greenish "tusks" up to 2.5 cm long, the inners usually form a neat, widely splayed rosette; the long foliose spathe may sometimes split, as in 'Scharlockii'; selected at Maidwell, Northamptonshire in the 1960s

Gaston d'Illiers

Some are winners of jumping: Idylle, Bulletin rose, Rosette XIV...

Klemperer rosette

In Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, the Puppeteers' "Fleet of Worlds" is arranged in such a configuration (5 planets spaced at the points of a pentagon) which Niven calls a "Kemplerer rosette"; this (possibly intentional) misspelling (and misuse) is one possible source of this confusion.

Lois Meredith

Le Secret de Rosette Lambert (also known as The Secret of Rosette Lambert) (1920) as Rosette Lambert

Masao Takahashi

In 2002 he was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette, in recognition of his service to improving the status of Japanese-Canadians through his lifelong commitment to the promotion and development of Judo in Canada.

New Guinea Highlands

The alpine habitat above 4,000 metres consists of compact rosette and cushion herbs, such as Ranunculus, Potentilla, Gentiana, and Epilobium, grasses (Poa and Deschampsia), bryophytes, and lichens.

Onopordum

In most of these countries, these thistles are considered noxious weeds, especially in Australia where a biological control program has been set up (using the Rosette Crown Weevil, Trichosirocalus briesei).

Palfuria helichrysorum

The species name is derived from the rosette bearing Asteraceae Helichrysum, which serves as a retreat for night active spiders.

Princess Rosette

Italo Calvino included an orally collected tale, The King of the Peacocks, in his Italian Folktales, but observed in the notes that it was clearly a variant on Princess Rosette.

Rosette Nebula

Photographically the Rosette Nebula is easier to record and it is the only way to record the red color which is not seen visually.

Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento

The huge, stained glass windows, including the rosette on the facade, were executed by Jacques and Gerard Degusseau of Orléans, France, according to cartons of the artist Maurice Rocher of Paris.

Wolfgang Klemperer

He is probably best known for his work on Properties of Rosette Configurations of Gravitating Bodies in Homographic Equilibrium, which have been named after him as Klemperer rosettes.


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