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Black Rose - A Journey into an Unexplored Territory Black rose has multiple meaning inside it. Black rose is actually a darker shade of purple, maroon or red. It can also be a dyed white rose, made to look black by placing it in black ink or by burning a rose under controlled circumstances.  Black roses are symbols featured in fiction with many different meanings and titles such as Black Jade, Black Velvet Rose, Black Magic, Barkarole, Black Beauty, Tuscany Superb, and Baccara. The color black has always been synonymous with death and mourning. It is thus the color of sadness and farewell. So, many people consider black roses to symbolize bereavement, loss, and mortality. They are often used at funerals. A single black rose might be sent by a close friend and/or loved one leaving for war or on a journey from which he did not expect to return.  But, a more positive meaning does exist for the black rose. It is true that black is the color of death. But death do...

Blue False Indigo- Baptisia Australis Blue False Indigo is a member of the Pea family. Baptisia Australis is standout because of its striking blue flowers. There are newer hybrids of Baptisia with Yellow and Purple flowers.  The flowering plant is native to Central and Eastern America as well as in the Midwest. The flowers are native to American beauty. Botanical name of a plant  is Baptisia Australis and commonly known as Blue False Indigo or Blue Wild Indigo. The Flowers are blue-purple pea-like colored. The blossoms start as plump, tight bunds. Leaves are divided into three leaflets. Leaves have a blue-green coloring and turn silvery grey in fall. A height of the plant is 3-4 feet from woody stem and spread around 3-4 feet. This plant is found in late spring season through early summer. Blue false indigo is an upright and shrubby form perennial easily grown in average dry to medium well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Over time, plants develop slowl...

Rainbow Rose The Original Rainbow Rose has the seven colors of the rainbow and is the most popular rose in this category. The Rainbow rose is a rose that has its petals artificially colored.  However, there are combinations of red-pink, yellow, green and blue. Other color combinations are also possible to make, but black and white color combinations are impossible to make. As they're unnaturally colored, they don't last as long in a vase as regular roses, as the dye affects the plants' ability to photosynthesized and survive. You cannot grow rainbow roses naturally from bulbs are seeds. The colors are so vivid, you may think pictures of the roses are digitally enhanced, but the flowers really are that bright! So, you may be wondering how the colors made and whether the rose bushes that produce these flowers always bloom in color combination. Making Rainbow rose at home is easy. You cannot duplicate the exact effect like an original. You can get a lighter co...

Nervilia Plicata Orchid Nervilia orchid three species found in Kolhapur District of Maharashtra, India. Nervilia Plicata is a single leaf orchid. Botanical name of this plant is Nervilia Plicata belonging to Orchidaceae family (Orchid family). That Orchid has a single leaf. Leaf is appearing after the flowering stem. Color of leaf is dark green, mottled with purplish brown. Stalks are up to 1-2 cm long, blade kidney-shaped or round with heart shaped. The flowering stem is 8-5 cm tall with 1-3 flowers. Bracts are very small, shorter of the pedicle ovary, ovate. Sepals and petals nearly equal, spreading, narrowly lance-shaped, green. Flower blossoms in May-June month.  Lip is ovate when spread out, lower part whitish or rose-colored, embracing the column, with thickened yellow midrib, apex pale violet, minutely emarginated. The column is narrowed in a lower half. Ovary and flower-stalks are ridged. Nervillia Plicata is found in the Himalayas, from Pakis...

Chrysophyllum Cainito It has numerous common names including cainito , caimito, tar apple, star apple, purple star apple, golden leaf tree, abiba , Pomme de lait, Estrella, milk fruit, and aguay. Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is native to the Greater Antilles and the West Indies. It has spread to the lowlands of Central America and is now grown throughout the tropics, including Southeast Asia. It grows rapidly and reaches 20 m in height.  The fruit is globose and typically measures from 2 to 3 inches in diameter. When ripe, it usually has purple-skinned with a faint green area appearing around the calyx. A radiating star pattern is visible in the pulp. Greenish-white and yellow-fruited cultivars are sometimes available. The skin is rich in latex, and both it and the rind are not edible. The flattened seeds  are light brown and hard. It is a seasonal fruit-bear...

Grass-Leaved Bladderwort The rare species are found at Kaas Plateau, Satara in the western Ghat of India. Grass-Leaved Bladderwort is a common name of the species and a botanical name of these species are Utricularia Purpurascens, Utricularia Uliginoides, Utricularia Parviflora.  Grass-Leaved Bladderwort is a medium to large-sized, probably annual carnivorous species that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. Utricularia grows as a terrestrial or sub aquatic plant in marshy grasslands or wet soils over rocks at lower altitudes up to 750 m (2,461 ft). It is also a common weed found in rice fields. Grass-Leaved Bladderwort is an insectivorous aquatic herb. A height of the species is 5-15 cm tall. The root fibers have small bladders. Linear oblong grass like leaves coming out straight from the roots and 6-10mm long. Flowers appear on erect filaments like scapes 5-15 tall. Scapes are 2-6 flowered. Slender sta...

Tiger Jaw orchid Tiger jaw orchid is a rare orchid plant. Tiger jaw orchid is a common name for several orchids  and may refer to Ellen thus, native to the neotropics .  Grammatophyllum speciosum, the world's largest orchid, native to Southeast Asia, Maxillaria is native to the Neotropics . Rossioglossum grande, native to Central America.