Posts tagged ‘flowers’
Ecological price of a bunch of flowers
A recent study on the impact of imported flowers market on the carbon footprint of our planet revealed shocking results. The bunch […]
02/12/2013. Category: nature. Tags: flowers
Only some countries have national flowers
Only some nations have adopted national flowers: Egypt has the lotus; England, the rose; France, the iris, or fleur-de-lis; Ireland, the shamrock; […]
08/02/2010. Category: trivia. Tags: emblems, flowers
World’s largest flower
The largest flower in the world, the rafflesia arnoldi, weighs 7 kg (15 pounds) and grows only on the Sumatra and Borneo […]
02/06/2010. Category: nature. Tags: flowers, rafflesia
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