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1958 NSWRFL season

The developing Western Suburbs side which would become such a force at the beginning of the 1960s, was already building around the class of internationals Keith "Yappy" Holman, Harry "Dealer" Wells, Kel "Twigs" O'Shea along with their hard men Neville "Boxhead" Charlton, Mark Patch and fiery 19-year-old Peter Dimond.

Alnus rubra

Twigs and buds of alder are only fair browse for wildlife, though deer and elk do browse the twigs in fall and twigs and buds in the winter and spring.

Autosticha pelodes

The larvae have been found beneath dead leaf sheaths of sugarcane, in fibrous material at the bases of palm fronds, in old Ipomoea capsules and in dead twigs and sticks of Araucaria, Lantana and Ricinus species.

Baccharis sarothroides

The Seri refer to desert broom as cascol caaco, and make a decoction by cooking the twigs.

Black Heron

The nest of the Black Heron is constructed of twigs placed over water in trees, bushes, and reed beds, forming a solid structure.

Blue spruce

Nymphs of the pineapple gall adelgid form galls at the base of twigs which resemble miniature pineapples and those of the Cooley's spruce gall adelgid cause cone-shaped galls at the tips of branches.

Crocidosema lantana

It also feeds in the stem of litchi and in the terminal twigs of Tecoma stans.

Dihydrochalcone

Dihydrochalcones (3′,5′-dihydroxy-2′,4′,6′-trimethoxydihydrochalcone, methyl linderone, 5-hydroxy-6,7,8-trimethoxyflavone (alnetin) and 2′-hydroxy-3′,4′,5′,6′-tetramethoxydihydrochalcone (dihydrokanakugiol) can be found in twigs of Lindera lucida.

Flemingia strobilifera

It is an essential part of the Bihu (গৰু বিহু) festival, during which the cattle are washed and gently beaten with twigs of this plant.

Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin

In 1901 and 1902, Brooke and Hewett asked Sultan Hashim to cede Belait and Tutong to them but Sultan Hashim refused and said, “What would happen to me, my chiefs and my descendants? I should be left like a tree, stripped of branches and twigs.”

Hernandiaceae

The Stem bark, root bark, twigs, stalks and seeds of the plant are used as hypotensive, non-cholinergic, relaxant smooth musculature, vasopressive, sympathicomimetic for inflammation and irritation of the upper respiratory system and the gastrointestinal tract.

Juniperus communis

According to the old tradition, on Easter Monday Kashubian (Northern Poland) boys chase girls whipping their legs gently with juniper twigs.

Limnoperdon

The species was originally discovered floating in petri dishes that contained submerged hardwood twigs previously collected from a marsh next to a playground on the south shore of Lake Union in Seattle, Washington.

Northern collared lemming

It feeds on grasses, sedges and other green vegetation in summer, and twigs of willow, aspen and birches in winter.

Scorias spongiosa

This aphid is found only on one host plant, the American beech tree, Fagus grandifolia, where it congregates on branches and twigs, creating copious amounts of honeydew that drip onto vegetation below.

Teas

Tea, a traditional beverage made from steeping the processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush (Camellia sinensis) in water.

Willow Ptarmigan

In Alaska, the main dietary item of the adults at all times of year is willows such as the Alaska willow Salix alaxensis, with leaves being eaten in summer and buds, twigs and catkins supplying the birds' main nutritional needs in winter and early spring.

Ziziphus mauritiana

Mites forms scale-like galls on twigs retarding growth and reducing the fruit crop.Lesser pests include a small caterpillar, Meridarches scyrodes, that bores into the fruit.


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