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The Mount Cook lily (Ranunculus lyallii) is one of New Zealand’s most well known alpine plants. Its flowering image has been used on postcards, stamps and even as a logo on the side of aircraft. Nowhere is it more beautiful though than when seen growing in large numbers on a mountain hillside with its beautiful white flowers and large glossy leaves.
Where is it found?
It grows in sub-alpine to alpine herbfields in the South Island mountains from Marlborough to Stewart Island from 700m to 1500m in altitude. It is well adapted to grow in infertile soils and it favours stream banks and damp locations in scrub and grasslands. Due to its ornamental flowers, the Mount Cook lily has also been cultivated. Plenty of water, good drainage and shade in hot areas are required and it is intolerant of high nutrient levels in soil.
It’s called a lily – but is it?
Although its name implies it is a lily and its large green leaves resemble those of one, it is in fact not a lily at all. It belongs to the buttercup family and is sometimes known as the giant buttercup. When it was first discovered by Dr David Lyall in the mid 1800s he collected only leaves so it wasn’t till a decade later that it was identified as a buttercup when Sir Julius von Haast and Dr Andrew Sinclair collected flowering specimens.
A clever plant
The Mount Cook lily, along with others in the buttercup family, (the Ranunculaceae) has developed a very clever mechanism which aids in its survival in the harsh alpine environment. All plants have stomates in their leaves which let water in and out of the leaves and nearly all plants have their stomates on the cooler, shaded underside of the leaf so they are less prone to drying out. But as the Mount Cook lily often grows among rocks which heat up during the day, the underside of its leaves are often warmer and in response it has evolved to have stomates on both surfaces of its leaves. Automatic controls in the leaves will close the lower stomates when the rocks warm up and open the upper ones where it is cooler to prevent the leaves from losing water. At the end of the day when the rocks cool down again, the stomates on the underside reopen, while the upper ones close.
Mount Cook lily facts
*The Mount Cook lily is truly a giant – it is the world’s largest buttercup. It can grow over a metre tall with leaves larger than the size of your hand. Some leaves have been recorded as big as 40cm across.
*The cup-like leaves will often hold water after a rainfall and trampers sometimes stop to slurp a drink from them.
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Dunedin Botanic Gardens
North Dunedin
South Island
New Zealand
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Kristy Lee Cook from last years American Idol performed a short set of songs at the One Up Elevated Lounge in downdown Albuqerque on Monday November 3rd. This was something that was hosted by KRST radio.
Cook Out (2,838 square feet)
1105 North Military Highway, Norfolk, VA
This location opened in fall 2012.
2018 Round the World Trip - Rarotonga
Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 9.1-91mm f2.8-5.9 Asph
A woman wearing a sun hat and carrying a patterned bag stands on the concrete porch of a post office. She pauses near the blue mail slot while holding her phone. The open doorway reveals a simple interior, and a car is parked just to the side of the building.
Israel’s culinary traditions involve food and cooking method that trace back to a thousand years of history and shaped by influences of Asia, Africa, Europe and other countries,so you can visit Cookinisrael cooking classes to enjoy cooking. visit us for more info www.cookinisrael.com
This was the home of the parents of Captain Cook, British discoverer of Australia. It was moved brick-by-brick to a park in Melbourne and reassembled.
This is not just a man standing against some rocks.
This is Thomas Cook, head of Bede Controls NE, father and grandfather, and Sunderland supporter.
However, I feel he does not have enough respect for Sir Roy Keane.
Original Caption: Cooks' quarters
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-270
From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)
Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896
Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Subjects:
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/524689
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We didn't visit Cairns on our recent trip to Australia but I came across this image of the thirty-two foot concrete Cook while researching the several Cook Statues that we did see and couldn't resist uploading it. One more reason for us to visit Queensland.
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01.10.2019. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. El presidente del Parlamento de Canarias, Gustavo Matos, ha presidido el pleno monográfico sobre la quiebra de Thomas Cook celebrado en la Cámara.
© Pepe Torres
Southern Cookes Range, 2.8 miles southeast of Massacre Peak, 9.7 miles south-southeast of Cookes Peak, 03028 trend plot 5, 32.4197 -107.6394, Luna County, New Mexico, 17 Dec 2012. Tobosa grassland with Amaranthus, Atriplex canescens, Chenopodium, Rhys microphylla, Lomatium nevadense, Chaetopappa ericoides, Flourensia cernua, Gutierrezia microcephala, Microseris lindleyi, Rafinesquia neomexicana, Cryptantha, Lappula occidentalis, Lepidium, Streptanthus carinatus, Tomostima cuneifolia, Cylindropuntia spinosior, Ferocactus wislizeni, Ephedra trifurca, Chamaesyce, Croton pottsii, Dalea formosa, Prosopis glandulosa, Vicia ludoviciana, Erodium cicutarium, Mentzelia albicaulis, Sphaeralcea, Oenothera, Plantago patagonica, Dasyochloa pulchella, Muhlenbergia porteri, Pleuraphis mutica, Eriastrum diffusum, Gilia flavocincta, Linanthus bigelovii, Eriogonum abertianum, Eriogonum trichopes, Eriogonum wrightii, Fallugia paradoxa, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Larrea tridentata, etc.
In the 18th century, Cook was worshipped as a deity. Now (2022) his statues are being defaced across the lands he visited.
In 1785, in a Covent Garden theatre, a spectacle premiered depicting Capt James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific. During the final scene of Omai, or A Trip Around the World, at the words “Cook, ever honour’d, immortal shall live!” an enormous oil painting descended from the ceiling – Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s Apotheosis of Captain Cook, commissioned for the occasion. Cook is carried up to heaven by the angels Britannia and Fame, but his gaze is directed back at the vertiginous earth, where ships and canoes are facing off in Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay. His expression is queasy and his eyes seem to plead: “Don’t drop me!
Written by John O'Keeffe with music by William Shield, it depicted the voyage of Omai, a Tahitian royal, to marry Londina the fictional daughter of Britannia. It was loosely inspired by the real visit of Omai to Europe in the 1770s and the final voyage of the explorer Captain James Cook leading up to his dramatic death in 1779.
The sets were designed by Philip James de Loutherbourg who took great care to try to make his depictions as authentic as possible by studying sketches made on all three of Cook's voyages and consulting with John Webber an artist who had sailed with Cook
The play was produced a year and a half after official Admiralty records of Cook’s final voyage were released and played a major part in the hero-isation of Cook. Although much of its material was intentionally whimsical and inaccurate, it helped shape Western views of the Pacific Ocean and its inhabitants.