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Interrail 2007 - Eastern Europe
Day: 17
Image: 17C
Place: Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam.
Title : The spiral of life
"The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is one of the oldest botanic gardens in the world. Located in the city centre of the Dutch capital, the garden is a beautiful and intimate place with an unique collection of plants. In the midst of busy city the Hortus offers an oasis of tranquillity, a flowery relief in the urban busyness."
The photo was taken on a windy and rainy evening. You can see the movement of the trees due to the storm.
想送好友捷克菠丹妮的香皂，不過我自己有點心虛，因為之前人家已給我好幾塊瑰柏翠。果然拿出來就被打槍。香皂太多啦。我也很不好意思，因為家裡沒像樣的東西可以餽贈。BTY我發現這次我買的菠丹妮都是比較偏男性的味道，以這塊為例，就是椰子加海藻（老天！我還不曉得海藻是什麼香味）。我喜歡菠丹妮是因為它的自然，反觀義大利的蕾莉歐，充滿矯情且煽情的味道，我在義大利旅行時經過北義眾大城連逛都不想逛進去，就算超多臺灣網友部落客都推薦Florenc必買有的沒的...我欠缺貴氣後天談吐也噴不出什麼氣，免了。
The old name of the Post, Telephone and Telegraph company. Post has become PostNL and Telephone has become KPN.
Echinocactus grusonii Hildm.
Cactaceae
Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
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The Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków is respected for having the oldest collection of cycads (20 species) in Poland, and one of the oldest such collections in the world. A few of the aged specimen in the collection, including Palma de la Virgen (Dioon edule), were bought for the Garden in 1848 - they've been cultivated for more than 150 years.
Cycads (Cycadophyta), which were dominant vegetation at the time of the dinosaurs, are found across much of the subtropical and tropical parts of the world. The sporophyte is very much like a fern with a thick stem and long compound leaves called fronds. As the stem grows vertically in most species, they resemble tree ferns or palms (at least superficially). Common names reflect this (eg. sago palm).
There are three families of cycads, Cycadaceae, Stangeriaceae, and Zamiaceae. Though they are a minor component of the plant kingdom today, during the Jurassic period they were extremely common. They have changed little since the Jurassic, compared to some major evolutionary changes in other plant divisions. The cycad fossil record dates to the early Permian, 280 mya (million years ago). There is controversy over older cycad fossils that date to the late Carboniferous period, 300–325 mya.
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