m wild plants, especially when travelling abroad. The first step in acquiring such an interest is to procure a book describing the flowers to be found in some place where one is going for a holiday. Such a one is " Flowers of the Mediterranean " by Polunin and Huxley. I choose this because so many people make for that part of Europe and it is a wonderful area in which to start. Armed with such ...

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The present research was conducted to discover antimicrobial compounds in methanolic leaf extracts of Jatropha curcas and Andrographis paniculata and ethanolic leaf extract of Psidium guajava and the effectiveness against microbes on flower preservative solution of cut Mokara Red orchid flowers was evaluated. The leaves were analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. A total of nine, ...

BOTANY AND CIVIC INSECURITY appear, at first glance, incompatible. Most plants are sedentary. Patience distinguishes those who study them. For Kant, flowers embodied the idea of an end in themselves: they exemplified the autonomy of the aesthetic. "Flowers are free beauties of nature," he wrote, classing flowers under the heading pulchritudo vap,a. He meant beauty that eludes utilitarian evalua...

Introduction and objective: Otitis externa, commonly called ear disease, is characterized by inflammation of the external ear canal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of Cassia fistula flowers, leaves and bark extracts against Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis, Escherchia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter sp., and Candida albicans, pathogens caus...

Amongst Chelsea Flower Show's champion blooms last month, a range of diseased specimens helped flag up key plant research goals.

It is well known that adult humans detect snakes as targets more quickly than flowers as the targets and that how rapidly they detect a snake picture does not differ whether the images are in color or gray-scale, whereas they find a flower picture more rapidly when the images are in color than when the images are gray-scale. In the present study, a total of 111 children were presented with 3-by...

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