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Cyphostemma Currorii
''Cyphostemma currorii'' is a succulent tree belonging to the family Vitaceae, also known as Koba or Butter-tree. They grow and reach a height of 6 meters or more. ''Cyphostemma currorii'' is found in hot, arid rocky places, and has been seen from southern Angola to Namibia and is common on the Brandberg. Description ''Cyphostemma currorii'' looks like a big succulent that grows up to be a tree, belonging to the Vitaceae family. ''Cyphostemma currorii'' grows up to be a tree, with creamy, papery peeling bark. The trunk has a yellowish to orange bark, peeling off in a paper-like flakes to expose a greenish underbark. They have very long trunks, they have mid vein with branches. The leaves are at the tip of the branches, arranged in groups of threes. The leaves are fairly large and fleshy, the edges of the leaves are not smooth, they are dentated. The leaves are dentated so they can preserve water so the tree can survive the extra hot seasons. Distribution ''Cyphostemma curror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Biography Early years Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgow University, taking an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.D. in 1839. This degree qualified him for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaceae
The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species, including common plants such as grapevines (''Vitis'' spp.) and Virginia creeper (''Parthenocissus quinquefolia''). The family name is derived from the genus ''Vitis''. Most ''Vitis'' species have 38 chromosomes (n=19), but 40 (n=20) in subgenus ''Muscadinia'', while ''Ampelocissus'', ''Parthenocissus'', and '' Ampelopsis'' also have 40 chromosomes (n=20) and ''Cissus'' has 24 chromosomes (n=12). The family is economically important as the berries of ''Vitis'' species, commonly known as grapes, are an important fruit crop and, when fermented, produce wine. Species of the genus ''Tetrastigma'' serve as hosts to parasitic plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. Taxonomy The name sometimes appears as Vitidaceae, but Vitaceae is a conserved name and therefore has priority over both Vitidaceae and another name sometimes found in the older literature, Ampelidaceae. In the APG III system (2009) onw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angola
, national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Portuguese , languages2_type = National languages , languages2 = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_ref = , ethnic_groups_year = 2000 , demonym = , government_type = Unitary dominant-party presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = João Lourenço , leader_title2 = Vice President , leader_name2 = Esperança da CostaInvestidura do Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although Kazungula, it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi, Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San people, San, Damara people, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigration, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandberg Mountain
The Brandberg (Damara (people), Damara: Dâures; hz, Omukuruvaro) is Namibia's highest mountain. Location and extent Brandberg Mountain is located in former Damaraland, now Erongo, in the northwestern Namib Desert, near the coast, and covers an area of approximately 650 km2.landsat.usgs.gov With its highest point, the Königstein ''(German language, German for 'King's Stone')'', standing at above sea level and located on the flat Namib gravel plains, on a clear day 'The Brandberg' can be seen from a great distance. There are various routes to the summit, the easiest (also steepest) being up the Ga'aseb river valley, but other routes include the Hungurob and Tsisab river valleys. The nearest settlement is Uis, roughly 30 km from the mountain. The core area of was declared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Waterwitch
HMS ''Waterwitch'' has been the name of several Royal Navy vessels: * , a brig-sloop purchased in 1834 and sold in 1861; Joseph White of Cowes built the brig in 1832 for Lord Belfast. * , an iron hydraulic gunboat launched in 1866 and sold in 1890 * , a hydrographic survey vessel originally called ''Lancashire Witch'' and purchased in 1893 and sunk in 1912 after being accidentally rammed by a launch belonging to the governor of Singapore. * , a despatch vessel Dispatch boats were small boats, and sometimes large ships, tasked to carry military dispatches from ship to ship or from ship to shore or, in some cases from shore to shore. Dispatch boats were employed when other means of transmitting a message w ... launched on 17 October 1914 at the Fairfield Shipyard in Glasgow. Originally ordered by the Turkish Government as ''Rechid Pasha'' the vessel was purchased by the Royal Navy on completion in 1915. She served at Gallipoli ferrying soldiers, then at Salonika 1916-17 and Istanb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curroria
''Cryptolepis'' is a plant genus in the family ''Apocynaceae''. It includes some 42 species. Selected species *'' Cryptolepis africana'' (Bullock) Venter & R.L.Verh. *'' Cryptolepis albicans'' Jum. & H.Perrier *'' Cryptolepis angolensis'' Welw. ex Hiern *'' Cryptolepis apiculata'' K.Schum. *'' Cryptolepis arbuscula'' (Radcl.-Sm.) Venter *'' Cryptolepis baumii'' N.E.Br. *'' Cryptolepis brazzaei'' Baill. *'' Cryptolepis buchanani'' *'' Cryptolepis buxifolia'' Chiov. *'' Cryptolepis capensis'' Schltr. *'' Cryptolepis cryptolepioides'' (Schltr.) Bullock *''Cryptolepis dubia'' (Burm.f.) M.R.Almeida *''Cryptolepis hypoglauca'' *'' Cryptolepis oblongifolia'' (Meisn.) Schltr. *'' Cryptolepis obtusa'' *''Cryptolepis ruspolii'' Chiov. *''Cryptolepis sanguinolenta'' (Lindl.) Schltr. *''Cryptolepis sinensis'' (Lour.) Merr. *''Cryptolepis sizenandii'' Rolfe *''Cryptolepis socotrana'' (Balf.f.) Venter *''Cryptolepis somaliensis'' Venter & Thulin *''Cryptolepis stefianinii'' Chiov. *''Cryptole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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