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Prostrating before the great Stupa, ( a symbol of fully enlightened mind), this vajrayana monk places his hands above his head offering his body, then at the throat area offering his speech, then heart area to offer his mind. The practitioner aspires to, (through cultivation of appropriate skilful means and loving-kindness), dissolve their habitual clouds, (of naive views of reality and conflicting emotions), in order to reveal/realize the sun, (of already existing, full and permanent enlightenment - Buddhahood), so that they might effect the benefit of all sentient beings in the way most appropriate to each one, bringing them too toward that same realization.
The Buddha taught that, from the relative perspective, wisdom and ignorance are co-emergent and have arisen for sentient beings in that manner since, literally, beginningless time. Although this ignorance has always been with us and is therefore exceedingly, habitually tenacious there is the possibility of an end to it. We can wake up.
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.
This is an illuminated and illustrated Timurid copy of the Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), completed in 886 AH / 1481 CE. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in red. Illuminated headings written in a foliated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in white ink on a blue background with polychrome decoration introduce the poems of the Khamsah (fols. 26b, 97a, 146b, and 202b). (The beginning of Makhzan al-asrār is now missing). There are sixty illustrations. The reddish brown leather binding dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. Khusraw prostrates before his father, Hurmuz, and begs for pardon.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Prostrate shrub with white flowers. Width: to ca 40 cm. Height: to ca 4 cm. Flowers Oct - Nov.
The fruit or seed cases and seed are shown here. They fall off the plant easily and blow away or are taken by insects as they do not remain near the plants.
Named for it's strawberry plant like leaves.
There are few scattered populations with low numbers of plants. 2 in one up to 129 in another. The populations are monitored to check their health on a regular basis.
Photo: Jean Dec 2012
A June day at Kew Gardens ...
From Wikipedia -
Dryas octopetala (common names include Mountain Avens, White Dryas, and White Dryad) is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae.
It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies. The specific epithet octopetala derives from the Greek octo (eight) and petalon (petal), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However, flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally.
The style is persistent on the fruit with white feathery hairs, functioning as a wind-dispersal agent. The feathery hairs of the seed head first appear twisted together and glossy before spreading out to an expanded ball which the wind quickly disperses.
Dryas octopetala has a widespread occurrence throughout mountainous areas where it is generally restricted to limestone outcrops. These include the entire Arctic, as well as the mountains of Scandinavia, Iceland, the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere. In Great Britain it occurs in the Pennines (northern England), at two locations in Snowdonia (north Wales), and more widely in the Scottish Highlands; in Ireland it occurs on The Burren and a few other sites. In North America it is found in Alaska, most frequently on previously glaciated terrain, reaching as far south as Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
It grows in dry localities where snow melts early, on gravel and rocky barrens, forming a distinct heath community on calcareous soils.
It is the official territorial flower of the Northwest Territories, and the national flower of Iceland.
The leaves are occasionally used as a herbal tea.
The Younger Dryas, Older Dryas and Oldest Dryas stadials are named after Dryas octopetala, because of the great quantities of its pollen found in cores dating from those times. During these cold spells, Dryas octopetala was much more widely distributed than it is today, as large parts of the northern hemisphere that are now covered by forests were replaced in the cold periods by tundra.
Just across the street from the famous al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo is probably the holiest site in the entire city: the al-Hussein Mosque, built in 1154 CE.
The mosque was named after Hussein [the second Ismaili imam, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and son of Ali, the fourth caliph for Sunnis and the first imam for Shias].
Hussein was beheaded as a martyr in the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq on the 10th of Muharram, 680 CE. This date is known as Ashura (loosely translated to "ten" in Arabic) and its observance is one of the many aspects of Islam that separates the Sunnis from the Shias.
For Shias, the 10th of Muharram is a day of mourning as it is the day their first imam became a martyr. Sunnis however fast on the 10th of Muharram as it is said that the Prophet Moses fasted on this day to show gratitude to God for freeing the Israelites from Egypt.
However, Hussein became a martyr in 680 in Iraq, so why was there a mosque built in his honor in Egypt almost 500 years later?
Hussein's body and head was buried in Karbala near the place of his death after the battle, and a shrine / mosque was built in the space a few years later. It is known as the Hussein Mosque (similar to what became the name of the Cairene mosque). All the martyrs from the Battle of Karbala were also buried in a nearby mass grave. This site commonly known as the holiest site for Shias after Makkah/Medina.
But it is said that around the time that the 21st Shia Imam / Fatimid ruler, Tayyab, went into hiding, the head of Hussein was ordered to be transferred from the Hussein Mosque in Karbala to Cairo, and in 1154 they built a mausoleum for it, and a mosque around it: the al-Hussein Mosque. It is believed that this is the present location of Hussein's head, as well as a few other artifacts.
Next to Hussein's mausoleum is what is known to be the oldest and complete Qur'an existing today (seen here). It is written in much larger text than normally found in Qur’ans and it is blocked off by bars and glass, the same one's blocking off the mausoleum.
Also in the mosque (though the only confirmation I got of this is from two Egyptians in the mosque at the time), there is a closed off room that is said to house a few hairs from the Prophet Muhammad's (saw) beard, a sword and eyelashes. However, Topkapi Palace in Turkey claims to have the same artifacts and more -- perhaps both places have them. I have not yet been to Turkey so I cannot confirm the accuracy of this detail.
However there is something that I would like to write of al-Hussein's mosque that I found, as a Muslim, very disheartening.
In Islam, there is a term known as Shirk. Literally, "polytheism." Or to consider anyone a god other than God, or to associate partners with God (as in the Prophet Jesus being God's son). In Islam, shirk is known as one of the worst, if not the worst, sin. It is written in the Qur'an that God forgives any sin except for those who commit shirk.
Well, the reason I felt very disheartened in the al-Hussein Mosque is because I witnessed countless amounts of shirk. The acts of course could also be seen as paying respects, but there are tamer ways to pay respects, I feel.
I don't mean to offend anyone by writing this, because everyone has the right to believe and behave however they want, but as a Muslim, I was not happy with what I saw going on in the al-Hussein mosque.
In the mausoleum, the entire group was singing chants and prayers about Hussein. Many were rubbing their heads and hands against the railing that surrounded the mausoleum. Others kissed it. Weeping. Outside of the mausoleum in the prayer area, men were praying in groups facing the mausoleum. Almost as if they were prostrating before Hussein. These could all be seen as either signs of respect or simply praying toward Makkah (as Makkah is technically in the direction they were praying), but then why did they choose to pray directly in front of the mausoleum? The entire mosque was empty. To me, this is known as shirk, as they were dignifying Hussein to holy levels. Something very wrong in Islam.
The same thing was going on for the closed off room that housed Muhammad's (saw) beard / sword (seen in this photo here). Men lined up to kiss the door that supposedly housed such artifacts. Rubbed their heads and face against the door. To me, there are other ways to show respect than to kiss and bow your heads towards a person, or the idea of a person. Especially when the ways you choose to show respect is forbidden in Islam.
But what bothered me most about all of it was that no one was saying anything. It seemed common place.
Shias obviously hold Hussein in a much higher light than Sunnis do – and by connection they hold Ali in a much higher light. This form of paying respects is common place at the mosque in Karbala where the majority of people who go are Shia. But in Egypt, where it is said that Sunni is by and large the majority sect? Like figures that describe 99% Sunni? Why is there so much of this going on in a mosque, and on an Eid of all days!
(btw, there cannot be any absolute truth to the 99% figure of Sunnis. Cairo was in fact created by the Fatimid Empire, who was all Shia. There is a big anti-Shia sentiment in Cairo, or rather all of Egypt, but there is no way there are that few Shias in this country.)
A friend brought it to my attention that when she went for Umrah (like Hajj/pilgrimage) that security had to keep Muslims from the Prophet's (saw) tomb in Medina as they would perform the same type of shirk acts that I described to her there as well. Why was no one keeping these Muslims from doing the same thing here?
I really don’t mean to offend anyone in this writing, but I just can't understand why this was going on. So if anyone can enlighten me, please do so. I also posted up a video of the reverence inside the mausoleum here.
Remembering Tak Bai.
At the PAD rally in front of the United Nations Building in Bangkok stallholders in the first week of June 2008 show videos of the Tak Bai "Incident" (i.e. masssacre).
Horrific brutality.
Most of those standing and watching these videos for their first time turn away at the harshest scenes - as bodies are piled into the backs of army trucks (later the reported death toll was stated as 85, see the list below), as Thai citizens are kicked around on the floor with solid army boots, as rifle butts smash into heads, and as the prostrate arrested are forced to wriggle, tied together by ropes, towards the waiting convoy that was to take them away.
"ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM
Update on Urgent Appeal
28 October 2004
[Re: UA-143-2004: THAILAND: At least 84 people killed in Southern Thailand on 26 October 2004]
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UP-65-2004: THAILAND: A list of the victims of the mass killing in Narathiwat province; Immediate international intervention needed
THAILAND: Mass killings; Extrajudicial killings; Collapse of rule of law
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Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sending you a list of the names of the victims of the tragic incident in Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, of this October 25, 2004 that have so far been made public. At least 85 persons are now known to have died, 78 of them inside army vehicles, six outside a police station, and one at hospital. Another 16 persons in hospital are believed to be in critical condition.
Clips of the videos are loaded on the pages below:
32 deaths
1. Mr. Mamarusaki Latae
2. Mr. Nuhan Modoeseng
3. Mr. Mayalee Yaka
4. Mr. Sukrunai Ar-wae
5. Mr. Sachuden Masoe
6. Mr. Doelor Chae Ar- Wae
7. Mr. Manor Por Sar
8. Mr. Mahama Sama aae
9. Mr. Marohing Makar
10. Mr. Roymee Duerae
11. Mr. Ar-Hama Saree
12. Mr. Roha Ar-wae
13. Mr. Harong Patorma
14. Mr. Hamran Ar-rong
15. Mr. Muelee Arwaekuechi
16. Mr. Samree Arwaebango
17. Mr. Nasueree Ebroheng
18. Mr. Gifree Mama
19. Mr. Idrae Ar wae
20. Mr. Ar rong Sue
21. Mr. Rusadee Jongo
22. Mr. Rosee Samae
23. Mr. Saroj Tolae
24. Mr. Basaree Lueni
25. Mr. Rosuemai Salae
26. Mr. Abdularyee Yaring
27. Mr. Haron Ar-wae
28. Mr. Subaideelah Suriya
29. Mr. Nipaosee Maelae
30. Mr. Arbeedee Gabagor
31. Mr. Sabuting Yusoe
32. Mr. Sama air Udo
29 injured
1. Mr. Mahadee Rotanyong Age:20
2. Mr. Arsaha Luelae Age 22
3. Mr. Marudee Nasae Age: 30
4. Mr. Ma air Yana Age : 35
5. Mr. Madaravee Jaema Age 27
6. Mr. Mahama Ar lee Age 28
7. Mr. Mahama Dorormae Age 40
8. Mr. Tuanyunu Tokor Age: 47
9. Mr. Jaemu Umar Age 32
10. Mr. Abdulmama Sarubu Age 29
11. Mr. Arrong Yako Age 47
12. Mr. Abdulmana Useng Age 21
13. Mr. Mahama Naso teemasa Age 28
14. Mr. Abdulsoba Tahae Age:33
15. Mr. Marosee Samoe Age 25
16. Mr. Nubsan Madorseng Age:30
17. Mr. Asman Romae ` Age 22
18. Mr. Hayeeding Mayeeding Age:49
19. Mr. Useng Uma Age 30
20. Mr. Madoseng Mayseng Age 35
21. Mr. Yusoe Kachae Age 30
22. Mr. Muhammad Dodar Age 32
23. Mr. Yalee Ar wae Age 26
24. Mr. Useng Arwaelor Age 70
25. Mr. Maleekee unknown
26. Mr. Abdullor Chaha Age 22
27. Mr. Chaeyuhalee Satapor Age 30
28. Mr. Abdulor Samae
29. Mr. Rodee Mahama: Age 19
63 disappeared
From Moo 2 Tambon Chahae, Takbai district, Narathiwat
1. Mr. Mamaruswin Ar sae
2. Mr. Arnant Toedee
3. Mr. Maoseng Masae
4. Mr. Munusee Binsalae
5. Mr. Masu Laengo
6. Mr. Mahamaislee Masae
7. Mr. Arsueree Masae
8. Mr. Saman Somoni
9. Mr. Subkeeree Chahoe
10. Mr. Haleng Mama
11. Mr. Wae ar sing Lhongmoe
12. Mr. Yuenyong Chi
From Moo 6 Tambon Chaehae
1. Mr. Mama Saedee
2. Mr. Abdulrosi Teemasa
3. Mr. Mahamamaso Temasa
4. Mr. Mahama yukeesamaair
5. Mr. Muhamadsabeer Useng
6. Mr. Mauseng Tayae
7. Mr. Saibuding Useng
8. Mr. Niarsaman Nima
9. Mr. Niarsuwan Nima
10. Mr. Sakaree Latae
11. Mr. Waeausman Arsae
12. Mr. Waehami Waepha
13. Mr. Sukaranan Wanasa
14. Mr. Maarsaree Waenasa
15. Mr. Sotee Malee
16. Mr. Mahamadarbee Chaesoe
17. Mr. Arwae Yusoe
18. Mr. Chaiyuth Da oe
19. Mr. Aryusupiiyan Sama
20. Mr. Sarahudee Aryatala
21. Mr. Ar wae Dorlor
22. Mr. Arwaelor Tapor
23. Mr. Faisu Useng
24. Mr. Duelor Chae ar lee
25. Mr. Dueramae mamha
26. Mr. Rosalee Aryid
27. Mr. Arleng Aryid
28. Mr. Ar Hamapaocee
29. Mr. Mahama Duelae
30. Mr. Abdulmana Waenasa
31. Suedee Maha (underage)
32. Mr. Muhamasofee Mayusoe
33. Mr. Abdullor Tateenalaha
34. Mr. Rosee Samae
35. Mr. Abdularsee Temasar
36. Mr. Seeruemeen Karn
37. Mr. Arwae Teemasar
38. Mr. Anuwat mamu
39. Mr. Rusee Sama air
40. Mr. Yakee Samamae
From Moo 7 Tambon Chaehae
1. Mr. Raya Da O
2. Mr. Useng Arwaelae
3. Mr. Arsuelang Salae
4. Mr. Mama Salae
5. Mr. Saidee Marosae
6. Mr. Hamdam Useng
7. Mr. Baharuding Yusoe
8. Mr. Fad dalee Satopha
9. Mr. Mahadee Yeepanao
10. Mr. Suriya Mama
11. Mr. Maruding Useng
224 detained at Royal Thai Army camps
1. Mr. Masuelee Masoe
2. Mr. Muhammaddasan Maming
3. Mr. Montri Hayeechaemu
4. Mr. Samaair Mama
5. Mr. Maoseng Kuma
6. Mr. Dorya Yunup
7. Mr. Sunan Da A
8. Mr. Hamsor Yakarong
9. Mr. Marodee Korma
10. Mr. Yuenyong Chi
11. Mr. Boranor Chaetu
12. Mr. Sorma Yama
13. Mr. Masakee Yaka
14. Mr. Royalee Arngae
15. Mr. Risan Sama
16. Mr. Amran Arwaehama
17. Mr. Dormae Sonta
18. Mr. Arlee Chaemudor
19. Mr. Andullor Locheng
20. Mr. Saman Chaelor
21. Mr. Katfutaw Ma
22. Mr. Nikasee ari Niarnsee
23. Mr. Anduhakang Chaekoe
24. Mr. Saman Samana arnon
25. Mr. Manuzi Bensalae
26. Mr. Muhammadmudoree Maming
27. Mr. Udom Chae Ari
28. Mr. Kareeya Nasae
29. Mr. Arzubulor Chae
30. Mr. Muhamma Salae
31. Mr. Sorleehee Aryim
32. Mr. Abduldoleb Lorhae
33. Mr. Wae useng Chaedamrong
34. Mr. Ludfee Tayae
35. Mr. Wae arlae Benwaesor
36. Mr. Abdullor Chi
37. Mr. Muhamman Ari Mamu
38. Mr. Yuiri Hama
39. Mr. Nimae Mudor
40. Mr. Abdulroman Salae
41. Mr. Maso Salae
42. Mr. Arbeedine Abdulsama
43. Mr. Maarsuri Waenaza
44. Mr. Sumai Heng
45. Mr. Suhailee Kama
46. Mr. Tasamichee Hami
47. Mr. So Mama
48. Mr. Makeezi Yako
49. Mr. Masaree Yapa
50. (boy) Chaemusor Romilo
51. Mr. Kahama Baelhor
52. Mr. Bandee Paju
53. Mr. Suhan Kuechee
54. Mr. Masyin Salaemae
55. Mr. Sukeeplee Mamhan
56. Mr. Mayudeen Binna
57. Mr. Sukarnnor Sailumae
58. Mr. Abdullor Dayhong
59. Mr. Halhong Mamu
60. Mr. Bee e yue nee Sama
61. Mr. Arwae Dasoe
62. Mr. Marameezi Samu
63. Mr. Maroha Wango
64. Mr. Masalan Machi
65. Mr. Abdullor Lorka A
66. Mr. Anwar Mahama
67. Mr. Arwae Chaeda
68. Mr. Anan Toedee
69. Mr. Giflee Chaengaw
70. Mr. Muhimimadarsuree Masae
71. Mr. Ruehasae Da O
72. Mr. Abdulrosae Ding
73. Mr. Diiraman Soe
74. Mr. Ahamasawalee Baduseng
75. Mr. Muhammad Mahulee
76. Mr. Koleng Aye arsae
77. Mr. Arseepee Uma
78. Mr. Faklu Lheng
79. Mr. Sarahudee Ayatula
80. Mr. O Mamu
81. Mr. Arhamasaiduturue Mahama
82. Mr. Samaair Mahama
83. Mr. Arsueming Suemae
84. Mr. Mahama Yaki
85. Mr. Arwae Chaema
86. Mr. Chaesoe Tahae
87. Mr. Saidi Marosae
88. Mr. Abdullor Dorlor
89. Mr. Awaezi Lhongnor
90. Mr. Maroya Salhae
91. Mr. Alhee yasae
92. Mr. Samlee Bandordae
93. Mr. Arwae Doromae
94. Mr. Isma ae Chaeari
95. Mr. Kita Tayi
96. Mr. chae Aseng Kaseng
97. Mr. Preecha Mama
98. Mr. Haimil Binda O
99. Mr. Tus Korlor
100. Mr. Arhama Dorlormae
101. Mr. Arham Dorlormae
102. Mr. Amiba Salae
103. Mr. Arhama Mali
104. Mr. Nimusdari Mahama
105. Mr. Yuso Nasulae
106. Mr. Sari Bula
107. Mr. Roya Ramo
108. Mr. Rorsalee Aryid
109. Mr. Abdullor Yaloe
110. Mr. Rorsa Bula
111. Mr. Chaebueraheng Chaehama
112. Mr. Marorzi Sengkoe
113. Mr. Rorpee Sulhong
114. Mr. Arun Talek
115. Mr. Paisol Samaha
116. Mr. Archi Chaeha
117. Mr. Aleng Ayid
118. Mr. Asueman Lengha
119. Mr. Arwae Chaemu
120. Mr. nasee ari Sama air
121. Mr. Asmee Kabakor
122. Mr. Maslam Musor
123. Mr. Muhamad artuhollor laoni
124. Mr. Mapasadi Kaema
125. Mr. Hasuemae Bulor
126. Mr. Abdulhalee Seemeng
127. Mr. Arwae Dorlor
128. Mr. Nasae Samaromor
129. Mr. Arhama Lengsa
130. Mr. Karuneeyawan Toelor
131. Mr. Abdulkarim Salae
132. Mr. Saroning Ningaw
133. Mr. Suriyan Niramae
134. Mr. mama Arwae
135. Mr. Yusoe Pador
136. Mr. Rosukee Arwae
137. Mr. Duerormae Baka
138. Mr. Hamae Samoe
139. Mr. Marorsae Chaemae
140. Mr. Makorta Ningarwae
141. Mr. Komarutin Arwae
142. Mr. Nacha Da O
143. Mr. Paozi Samakae
144. Mr. Masakee Kadae
145. Mr. Ansapaluer Sa A
146. Mr. Mahama Armidi Mama
147. Mr. Chaiyuth Ta O
148. Mr. yhaya Yusoe
149. Mr. Dorromae Kotar
150. Mr. Husalam Mana
151. Mr. mahamasawaree Malhee
152. Mr. Ami Paka
153. Mr. Mafaiza Dorlor
154. Mr. Abdulpukvee Chaemama
155. Mr. Madorla kaema
156. Mr. Salhae Dorlor
157. Mr. kamaruding Budor
158. Mr. Hamaroyasee Duelor
159. Mr. Yuharee Chaeroning
160. Mr. Afwan Yunu
161. Mr. Usman Mhad
162. Mr. Madaravee Chaema
163. Mr. Saman Sarae
164. Mr. Abdulmayi Sataborki
165. Mr. Nikarim Nihaw
166. Mr. Mahamazaree Arsae
167. Mr. yamaroning Ha
168. Mr. Sakree Mayakoe
169. Mr. Ebin Sukseneeya
170. Mr. Suding Salae
171. Mr. Masoring Jukuyee
172. Mr. Mueram Dorlor
173. Mr. Amrin Abdullor
174. Mr. Usmin Mama
175. Mr. Sabaeing Samlae
176. Mr. Mahama padae
177. Mr. Muhamadsamsuding Chaehae
178. Mr. Muhamad Chaesoe
179. Mr. Duanding Kuchi
180. Mr. Marorya Chaema
181. Mr. Payahae Ngawseeha
182. Mr. pa Waemud E
183. Mr. Aryuening Buezar
184. Mr. Pikdee Mayazing
185. Mr. Salaemae Hami
186. Mr. Ruslan Pi
187. Mr. Hawae Musor
188. Mr. Nurupaisarn Norror A
189. Mr. Soroyma Ronor
190. Mr. Sulkiplee Maeror
191. Mr. Saman Armeedee
192. Mr. Sapiding Sulong
193. Mr. Royalee Bin Uma
194. Mr. Sabree Nipo
195. Mr. Nasueree Mae Uma
196. Mr. Ma U Tonsulong
197. Mr. Anan Malhong
198. Mr. Ma ari Samaerae
199. Mr. Rordee Deedreephet
200. Mr. Masudin Bueza
201. Mr. Yuha Ya
202. Mr. Arbuza Chaemama
203. Mr. Utha Yakoe
204. Mr. Abdulroza Hayisalaemae
205. Mr. Aryi Ma
206. Mr. Zakareeya Salae
207. Mr. Zukinai Wado
208. Mr. Chaenu Uma
209. Mr. Mayulee Hayeenawae
210. Mr. Ha Romae
211. Mr. Arwae Makoseng
212. Mr. Isma air Sani
213. Mr. Mahamanazrae lortanyong
214. Mr. Ar ring Duerae
215. Mr. Abdulroryim Salaemae
216. Mr. Saidee Nido
217. Mr. Mahamatohae Chaedorhor
218. Mr. Sarae Suemae
219. Mr. Arong Armi
220. Mr. Rorsuetee Ha
221. Mr. Dorlor Dorlor
222. Mr. Malkal Suemae
223. Mr. Norning Yusoe
224. Mr. Abdulkarn Hayilabuding
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate legume, with rhizomes and usually less than 15 cm tall. Stems are hollow. Leaves have 5 leaflets, which are ovate to obovate, to 25 mm long and with long marginal hairs. Flowerheads are clusters of 8-14 yellow flowers (10-12 mm long) on the end of unbranched stalks. Pods are long and cylindrical. Flowering is from late summer to autumn.
A native of Europe and North Africa, it is sown and naturalized in high rainfall areas and on wet and waterlogged soils. It is tolerant of acid low-fertility soils. Seed is now difficult to obtain. Usually slow to establish, but will tolerate grass competition after 2-3 years. Can grow under low fertility conditions, but is responsive to increased phosphorus. Tends to die off in patches in hot, dry conditions; reshoot when conditions are favourable. Tolerant of wet conditions, but does not survive prolonged flooding. Low bloat risk. High tannin in some varieties can cause periods of lower palatability, but this can reduce overgrazing and help persistence. More tolerant of grazing than Lotus corniculatus, but some leaf should remain after grazing. Provide some rest in autumn to aid seed set and spread, but conditions may not be suitable every year for seed set.
Lhasa center - Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan Plateau, China,
Local monastery of the gelug pa monks.
Built in 1653.
( We've got two names?
Murunying Ma monastery or Grumi Dratsang monastery)
Pilgrims prostrating at the Temple, Lhasa
In de diverse stromingen van het boeddhisme is de prosternatie een middel om eer te bewijzen aan de Drie Juwelen: de Boeddha, de Dharma (Boeddha's leer) en de Sangha (de gemeenschap van Dharma-beoefenaars).
Bij de volle prosternatie werpen boeddhisten zich plat ter aarde met de armen vooruitgestoken. Zij blijven niet liggen, maar staan meteen weer op voor de volgende prosternatie. In het Tibetaanse boeddhisme prosterneren pelgrims zich tijdens hun bedevaart voortdurend. Zij hopen daarmee een gunstige wedergeboorte te bewerken
www.rkk.nl/katholicisme/encyclopedie/p/prosternatie
Interessant:
Virtue, spear in hand, with her foot on the prostrate form of Tyranny, whose crown lies nearby.
Virginia War Memorial
Richmond, VA
Nov 2013
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Since ages, there is a tradition in Tibet that religious people prostrate to holy places (like Lhasa) by measuring their body length that could take years and this tradition is still carried on today.
Full prostration: place your hands together and touch your crown, then your throat, and then your heart, then stretch your entire body on the ground and stretch both of your hands as far as possible away from you head and with the forehead touching the ground. Then rise up quickly and and take two steps foreward (were your fingertips ware before, when you stretched on the ground this is the marker to step to) repeat whole cycle for some hundreds of kilometers. Some Tibetans do this for days, some for weeks, some for month and some even take years to compleet and reach there goal "enlightment".
A very prostrate evergreen Cotoneaster, whose long trailing shoots are studded in autumn with bright red berries. It is a first rate ground cover plant, ideal for covering banks and as undercover beneath trees and larger shrubs.
It was discovered in China by Ernest Wilson, and introduced to the UK in 1900. AGM 2002.
Just out of interest ...
Ernest Wilson (1876-1930)
An amateur British botanist in China had alerted Kew to the alarming impact that the charcoal industry was having on the forests of Yunnan province. Concerned, William Thiselton-Dyer at Kew sent a trained botanist, 23-year-old Ernest Henry Wilson, to investigate.
‘Of athletic build, and endowed with an indomitable courage and perseverance’, his mission was not only to botanise but also to satisfy the horticultural needs of his financier, the Veitch nursery, for interesting hardy garden plants.
He was to search for one plant in particular, which had been described but never collected. This was the Handkerchief Tree(Davidia involucrata). Following a sketched map and instructions, Wilson located the valley where the tree was last sighted – only to find a stump and a newly erected hut built from its timber! Fortunately he persevered and was later successful.
In all, EH ‘Chinese’ Wilson brought us over 1,000 garden plants and around 16,000 herbarium specimens, introducing more plants to Western horticulture than any other collector. His introductions included the Beauty Bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis), the ‘Wilson 50’ Kurume azaleas, and the magnificent King’s Lily (Lilium regale), the collection of which very nearly cost him his life.
Sinowilsonia henryi from central and western China and many species are named in his honour.
Veitch Memorial Medal 1906
Victoria Medal of Honour 1912
Bertam, Pulau Pinang (Penang), Malaysia.
Pectis prostrata Cav. Compositae, alt. Asteraceae. CN: Spreading cinchweed, Cinchweeds. Native to Caribbean region, Central America, Mexico, and S United States. Annual herbs. Stems prostrate or ascending, 1-30 cm, puberulent, hairs in 2 rows (often mat-forming, densely leafy, especially distally). Leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10-30 × 1.5-7 mm, abaxially densely pubescent and dotted with conspicuous orbicular oil glands. Inflorescences of solitary terminal capitula or capitula in groups of 2 or 3; peduncles 1-2 mm, bracteolate. Autogamy has apparently assisted P. prostrata to spread rapidly as suitable new habitats have become available. Minor weed.
Synonym(s):
Chthonia prostrata Cass.
Lorentea prostrata (Cav.) Lag.
Pectis costata Ser. & Merc. ex DC.
Pectis multisetosa Rydb.
Pectis prostrata var. prostrata Greenm.
Pectis prostrata var. urceolata Fernald
Pectis urceolata (Fernald) Rydb.
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Compositae/Pectis/
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/gcc-32552
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=2...
florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/SpecimenDetails.aspx?PlantID=2918
It is a deciduous, much branched flowering shrub growing to 0.1–1 m tall, rarely up to 1.5 m. The habit is variably upright to sprawling or prostrate, but stems are often ascending especially those stems with many long branches.It is very often used by cities and businesses for landscaping because of its hardiness and low maintenance.
Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) » Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume
sy-ATH-uh-la or sy-ATH-yoo-la -- small cup ... Dave's Botanary
prost-RAY-tuh -- prostrate ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: cyathula, prostrate pastureweed • Hindi: लाल चिरचिटा lal chirchita • Kannada: ನೆಲ ಉತ್ತರಾಣಿ nela uttharaani, ರಕ್ತಪಮರ್ಗ raktapamarga • Konkani: ¿ धाकटो मोगरा dhakto mogra ? • Malayalam: ചെറുകടലാടി cerukadalaadi • Marathi: भुईअघाडा bhuiaghaada • Tamil: சிவப்பு நாயுருவி civappu nayuruvi
Native to: tropical Africa, s China, Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • Flora of China • PIER • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT
Our best holiday wildlife encounter this year was in fact at the cottage we were staying in. We came back one evening to find this male sparrowhawk plucking a pigeon in the back yard of our cottage. Scrambled to get the camera, managed to open the door and I laid prostrate on the floor clicking away. Light was awful so only snaps really but I just had to post these.
Many thanks to all who comment, fave or just enjoy looking, it really is very much appreciated!
a rock prostrates similiar to muslims
standing position-
Ruku- bending down
sajda pray to god (allah)- prostrate
valeed.hubpages.com/hub/Salaat-Muslim-Prayer
Salaat is the practice of formal Muslim prayer in Islam. A Muslim must pray five times a day, at the stated Salaat times. Before prayer ablution (Wudu) is necessary. Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W) said ablution is the key to prayer. In ablution Muslims wash their hands, face and feet, and after the completion of ablution they go to the mosque for offering prayers, where the Imam (prayer leader) faces Makkah and leads the prayers. The men stand in one, two, three or more rows behind him. The prayers consist of reciting passage from the Holy Quran. While praying the Muslims bow before Allah and kneel (sajda ) with the face to the ground. Friday prayers are preceded by a sermon (khutba ) delivered by the Imam.
Introduced, warm-season, annual or short-lived perennial, more or less prostrate herb; to 25 cm tall and with thick, tough stems that put roots down where the nodes come into contact with the soil. Leaves are oval and usually lobed, with toothed margins; 3-7 veins radiate from the heart-shaped base. Flowers are solitary in the leaf axils and have 5 red to orange-red petals. Flowering is in spring and summer. A native of South America, it is a weed of disturbed areas, such as newly sown pastures and turf; less so
in crops. It is spread by seed and vegetatively by putting down roots where ever stem nodes contact the ground. It is salt and drought tolerant. Has caused occasional stock poisoning, but its very prostrate habit limits the quantity eaten. Control in pastures by promoting dense swards. Can be controlled by herbicides at the seedling stage, but it is extremely tolerant of glyphosate, often making it a problem weed of direct drilled crops and pastures.
Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose
Sin.: Cereus thelegonus F.A.C. Weber, Echinopsis thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) Friedrich & G.D. Rowley Ref.: Kiesling, 1978. Status: Endémica.
Elevación: 500-1000 m.
Prov.: JU, SA, TU.
Ejemplar examinado: Kiesling 1113 (SI).
- Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la Argentina. Cactaceae. Kiesling, R. -
Echinopsis thelegona (F. A. C. Weber) H. Friedrich & G. D. Rowley 1974
Cereus thelegonus F. A. C. Weber 1898, Trichocereus thelegonus (F. A. C. Weber) Britton & Rose 1920
Plants shrubby with few branches, prostrate to creeping along the ground with slightly raised or ascending stem tips. Stems cylindrical, dark green, to 2 m (6.6 ft) long, 7-8 cm (2.8-3.1 in) in diameter. Ribs about 13, low, forming prominent hexagonal tubercles. Areoles borne at tubercle tips, round. Spines pale yellow, becoming gray with age, often with dark tips. Central spine one, protruding, 2—4 cm (0.81.6 in) long. Radial spines 6-7, needle-like, spreading, 1-2 cm (0.4-0.8 in) long, lowest longest. Flowers funnelform, white, to 20 cm (7.9 in) long and 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter; floral tubes with reddish bristles and hairs. Fruits globose to ovoid, yellowish to red, dehiscent, tuberculate, to 5 cm (2 in) in diameter. Distribution: Tucuman, Argentina.
- The Cactus Family. Anderson, E. 2001. -
00602 Echinopsis thelegona (KSch) FrdH+Rowl 1974/IOSB 3(3): 98. B: 043 19 Cereus thelegonus KSch 1897/GK 78.
T: AR, Tucuman, nd.
[1] Bo simple or sparsely branched; br procumbent or decum-bent, elongate, <2 m x 7-8 cm; ri c.13, low, divided into subhexago-nal tubercles; ar at apices of tubercles, 8-10 mm apart, 4-8 mm diameter; sp pale honey-yellow at first, tipped brown; esp 1, 2-4 cm, protrud-ing; rsp 6-7, lowest longest, <12 mm; fl funnelform, c.20 x 15 cm; flar with dull red bristles and hairs; fr globose to ovoid, 5 cm diameter, tuberculate, yellowish to red, splitting laterally ............................. ph 238.4
- The New Cactus Lexicon. Hunt, D. 2006. -
51. Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose, The Cactaceae 2: 130, ill. 1920.
Cereus thelegonus F.A.C. Weber, en K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. 78, ill. 1897. Echinopsis thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) H. Friedrich & G.D. Rowley, I.O.S. Bull. 3(3): 98. 1974. Soehrensia thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) Schlumpb., Cactaceae Syst. Init.: 28: 31. 2012. TIPO: Argentina, Tucumán, ―Vipos, [Dr. Jan] Authicus 6-VII-1892‖. (Lectotipo, P, aquí designado).
Descripción ampliada: Plantas decumbentes, que en algunas localidades cubren literalmente el suelo. Tallos rastreros, únicamente el ápice levantado o ascendentes al crecer en lugares húmedos y sombríos, 2 m de largo, cilíndricos, 6-8 cm de diámetro, verde-claro (cuando jóvenes) a oscuro (cuando adultos), raíces caulinares que nacen de las areolas en contacto con el suelo. Costillas 10-13, anchas, bajas, obtusas, formadas por mamelones subhexagonales, 6 mm de alto, 8 mm de ancho, 12 mm de largo, alineados longitudinalmente, separados por un surco transversal y siendo quebrada la línea que separa las costillas. Areolas en el ápice de los mamelones, distantes 1-2 cm, circulares, 4-8 mm de diámetro, con pilosidad blancuzca, gris y caduca. Una espina central, 2-4 cm de longitud, flexible, radiales rígidas, raro uncinadas, aciculares, 1 mm de diámetro, amarillas a negras, 1-2 cm de largo. Flores de 20 cm de largo, 15 cm de diámetro (cuando abiertas), escamas del ovario y tubo linear-triangulares, imbricadas, de cuyas axilas emergen cerdas rojizas y lanosidad ondulada; tépalos exteriores linear-lanceolados, retrorsos, ligeramente carnosos, mucronados, verdes, 2,5 cm de largo y 6 mm de ancho; los internos blancos, mucronados, 8 cm de longitud, 1,5 cm de ancho; estambres de la serie superior con filamentos de 4 cm de largo y 1 mm de diámetro, blancuzcos, filamentos de la serie inferior de 9,5 cm de largo y 1 mm de diámetro, con base verdosa y ápice crema, anteras amarillas, 2,5 mm de longitud y 1 mm de diámetro; estilo de 13 cm de largo y 4 mm de ancho, base verde y ápice blancuzco; estigma con 12 lóbulos, subteretes, 1,5 cm de largo y 2 mm de diámetro, amarillos. Pseudobayas globosas o subglobosas, parte externa verde, 5 cm de largo, mamelonados, con abundante pilosidad marrón a rojiza. Semillas de 1,5 mm de diámetro, redondeadas o a veces angulosas, negras, brillantes, papilas finas alrededor del hilo, y el resto con diminutas perforaciones (Fig. 52).
Distribución y hábitat: Especie endémica del oeste argentino, distribuyéndose en las provincias de Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán y noroeste de Catamarca (Fig. 73), entre 500-1000 m de altitud, en laderas rocosas desnudas o bajo árboles en lugares planos, en el bosque espinoso y seco de la provincia fitogeográfica del Chaco Serrano o en el bosque de transición entre esta provincia y las Yungas, donde se presenta más erecta (Kiesling 1978).
Comentarios morfológicos y sus consecuencias en la taxonomía y nomenclatura: Es la única especie del género Trichocereus que se caracteriza por ser rastrera, con costillas formadas por mamelones y con surcos intercostales en zig-zag.
Especie descrita originalmente en el género Cereus (Weber 1897), posteriormente transferida a Trichocereus (Britton & Rose 1920), Echinopsis (Friedrich & Rowley 1974) y recientemente a Soehrensia (Schlumpberger 2012). Se considera que debe corresponder al género Trichocereus por presentar las siguientes sinapomorfías: crecimiento basítono con ramas postradas, escamas imbricadas a lo largo del tubo floral y frutos subglobosos.
- Taxonomía y filogenia de Trichocereus (Berg.) Riccob. (Trichocereeae-Cactaceae). Albesiano, S. 2015. -
... "In addition, we have
registered low flower production and pollinator limitations.
Therefore, self-incompatibility, low flower production, low
local abundance of pollinators and clonality in combination
could account for the low fruit production observed in the
populations of E. thelegona. This finding suggests that
populations of this cactus species persist mainly by clonality
and that they are tending to the loss of sexuality
(Honnay and Bossuyt 2005). Future studies should evaluate
the last hypothesis along the geographical distribution of
this species, and the generality of the ideas presented here
should be tested in other clonal cactus species that are
distributed in Argentina."...
- Extremely reduced sexual reproduction in the clonal cactus
Echinopsis thelegona. Ortega-Baes, P. & Gorostiague, P. 2013 -
Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber ex K. Schum.) Britton & Rose is a synonym* of Echinopsis thelegona (Web.) Friedrich & G.D.Rowley
www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-5107122
IUCN not evaluate
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Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose
Sin.: Cereus thelegonus F.A.C. Weber, Echinopsis thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) Friedrich & G.D. Rowley Ref.: Kiesling, 1978. Status: Endémica.
Elevación: 500-1000 m.
Prov.: JU, SA, TU.
Ejemplar examinado: Kiesling 1113 (SI).
- Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la Argentina. Cactaceae. Kiesling, R. -
Echinopsis thelegona (F. A. C. Weber) H. Friedrich & G. D. Rowley 1974
Cereus thelegonus F. A. C. Weber 1898, Trichocereus thelegonus (F. A. C. Weber) Britton & Rose 1920
Plants shrubby with few branches, prostrate to creeping along the ground with slightly raised or ascending stem tips. Stems cylindrical, dark green, to 2 m (6.6 ft) long, 7-8 cm (2.8-3.1 in) in diameter. Ribs about 13, low, forming prominent hexagonal tubercles. Areoles borne at tubercle tips, round. Spines pale yellow, becoming gray with age, often with dark tips. Central spine one, protruding, 2—4 cm (0.81.6 in) long. Radial spines 6-7, needle-like, spreading, 1-2 cm (0.4-0.8 in) long, lowest longest. Flowers funnelform, white, to 20 cm (7.9 in) long and 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter; floral tubes with reddish bristles and hairs. Fruits globose to ovoid, yellowish to red, dehiscent, tuberculate, to 5 cm (2 in) in diameter. Distribution: Tucuman, Argentina.
- The Cactus Family. Anderson, E. 2001. -
00602 Echinopsis thelegona (KSch) FrdH+Rowl 1974/IOSB 3(3): 98. B: 043 19 Cereus thelegonus KSch 1897/GK 78.
T: AR, Tucuman, nd.
[1] Bo simple or sparsely branched; br procumbent or decum-bent, elongate, <2 m x 7-8 cm; ri c.13, low, divided into subhexago-nal tubercles; ar at apices of tubercles, 8-10 mm apart, 4-8 mm diameter; sp pale honey-yellow at first, tipped brown; esp 1, 2-4 cm, protrud-ing; rsp 6-7, lowest longest, <12 mm; fl funnelform, c.20 x 15 cm; flar with dull red bristles and hairs; fr globose to ovoid, 5 cm diameter, tuberculate, yellowish to red, splitting laterally ............................. ph 238.4
- The New Cactus Lexicon. Hunt, D. 2006. -
51. Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose, The Cactaceae 2: 130, ill. 1920.
Cereus thelegonus F.A.C. Weber, en K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. 78, ill. 1897. Echinopsis thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) H. Friedrich & G.D. Rowley, I.O.S. Bull. 3(3): 98. 1974. Soehrensia thelegona (F.A.C. Weber) Schlumpb., Cactaceae Syst. Init.: 28: 31. 2012. TIPO: Argentina, Tucumán, ―Vipos, [Dr. Jan] Authicus 6-VII-1892‖. (Lectotipo, P, aquí designado).
Descripción ampliada: Plantas decumbentes, que en algunas localidades cubren literalmente el suelo. Tallos rastreros, únicamente el ápice levantado o ascendentes al crecer en lugares húmedos y sombríos, 2 m de largo, cilíndricos, 6-8 cm de diámetro, verde-claro (cuando jóvenes) a oscuro (cuando adultos), raíces caulinares que nacen de las areolas en contacto con el suelo. Costillas 10-13, anchas, bajas, obtusas, formadas por mamelones subhexagonales, 6 mm de alto, 8 mm de ancho, 12 mm de largo, alineados longitudinalmente, separados por un surco transversal y siendo quebrada la línea que separa las costillas. Areolas en el ápice de los mamelones, distantes 1-2 cm, circulares, 4-8 mm de diámetro, con pilosidad blancuzca, gris y caduca. Una espina central, 2-4 cm de longitud, flexible, radiales rígidas, raro uncinadas, aciculares, 1 mm de diámetro, amarillas a negras, 1-2 cm de largo. Flores de 20 cm de largo, 15 cm de diámetro (cuando abiertas), escamas del ovario y tubo linear-triangulares, imbricadas, de cuyas axilas emergen cerdas rojizas y lanosidad ondulada; tépalos exteriores linear-lanceolados, retrorsos, ligeramente carnosos, mucronados, verdes, 2,5 cm de largo y 6 mm de ancho; los internos blancos, mucronados, 8 cm de longitud, 1,5 cm de ancho; estambres de la serie superior con filamentos de 4 cm de largo y 1 mm de diámetro, blancuzcos, filamentos de la serie inferior de 9,5 cm de largo y 1 mm de diámetro, con base verdosa y ápice crema, anteras amarillas, 2,5 mm de longitud y 1 mm de diámetro; estilo de 13 cm de largo y 4 mm de ancho, base verde y ápice blancuzco; estigma con 12 lóbulos, subteretes, 1,5 cm de largo y 2 mm de diámetro, amarillos. Pseudobayas globosas o subglobosas, parte externa verde, 5 cm de largo, mamelonados, con abundante pilosidad marrón a rojiza. Semillas de 1,5 mm de diámetro, redondeadas o a veces angulosas, negras, brillantes, papilas finas alrededor del hilo, y el resto con diminutas perforaciones (Fig. 52).
Distribución y hábitat: Especie endémica del oeste argentino, distribuyéndose en las provincias de Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán y noroeste de Catamarca (Fig. 73), entre 500-1000 m de altitud, en laderas rocosas desnudas o bajo árboles en lugares planos, en el bosque espinoso y seco de la provincia fitogeográfica del Chaco Serrano o en el bosque de transición entre esta provincia y las Yungas, donde se presenta más erecta (Kiesling 1978).
Comentarios morfológicos y sus consecuencias en la taxonomía y nomenclatura: Es la única especie del género Trichocereus que se caracteriza por ser rastrera, con costillas formadas por mamelones y con surcos intercostales en zig-zag.
Especie descrita originalmente en el género Cereus (Weber 1897), posteriormente transferida a Trichocereus (Britton & Rose 1920), Echinopsis (Friedrich & Rowley 1974) y recientemente a Soehrensia (Schlumpberger 2012). Se considera que debe corresponder al género Trichocereus por presentar las siguientes sinapomorfías: crecimiento basítono con ramas postradas, escamas imbricadas a lo largo del tubo floral y frutos subglobosos.
- Taxonomía y filogenia de Trichocereus (Berg.) Riccob. (Trichocereeae-Cactaceae). Albesiano, S. 2015. -
... "In addition, we have
registered low flower production and pollinator limitations.
Therefore, self-incompatibility, low flower production, low
local abundance of pollinators and clonality in combination
could account for the low fruit production observed in the
populations of E. thelegona. This finding suggests that
populations of this cactus species persist mainly by clonality
and that they are tending to the loss of sexuality
(Honnay and Bossuyt 2005). Future studies should evaluate
the last hypothesis along the geographical distribution of
this species, and the generality of the ideas presented here
should be tested in other clonal cactus species that are
distributed in Argentina."...
- Extremely reduced sexual reproduction in the clonal cactus
Echinopsis thelegona. Ortega-Baes, P. & Gorostiague, P. 2013 -
Trichocereus thelegonus (F.A.C. Weber ex K. Schum.) Britton & Rose is a synonym* of Echinopsis thelegona (Web.) Friedrich & G.D.Rowley
www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-5107122
IUCN not evaluate
Anthony Gormley's 'Close V', as captred at The Crucible 2010 at Gloucester Cathedral.
Canon 400D, Kit Lens set at 18mm. Must have stopped breathing, as it was captured at ISO100, F4.0, 0.3sec. Can't believe I kept still for that long! Processing in PSE8 (crop) and Silver Efex Pro (B&W conversion and vignette)
Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) » Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume
sy-ATH-uh-la or sy-ATH-yoo-la -- small cup ... Dave's Botanary
prost-RAY-tuh -- prostrate ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: cyathula, prostrate pastureweed • Hindi: लाल चिरचिटा lal chirchita • Kannada: ನೆಲ ಉತ್ತರಾಣಿ nela uttharaani, ರಕ್ತಪಮರ್ಗ raktapamarga • Konkani: ¿ धाकटो मोगरा dhakto mogra ? • Malayalam: ചെറുകടലാടി cerukadalaadi • Marathi: भुईअघाडा bhuiaghaada • Tamil: சிவப்பு நாயுருவி civappu nayuruvi
Native to: tropical Africa, s China, Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • Flora of China • PIER • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT
P1000935
Situated in the Basque Country (Euskal Herria) in Northern Spain, in the Pyrennean foothills, this is San Ignacio de Loyola Country, for the Saint himself came here to prostrate himself in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary pointing the way to Aranzazu.
The choice for the location of the original fortress was purely defensive, as it commands views over four provinces. Originally the fortress was erected to stem off invaders using the roads in the valley below, along the rivers Alto Urola and Oria. This military function is reflected both in the size (30 x 20 metres, too large for a chapel), thickness of the tower walls as well as in the small openings for the use of arms. The original plan provided in time of crisis, for a shelter for animals, on the ground level and for people accommodation on the first floor.
The origin of this structure is steeped in the legends of Basque Mythology, when giants threw huge rocks from the top of the mountain to erect this building.
This belief has to do with the fact that the sandstone material is allochtonous and originates from some distance.
By the 14th and 15th centuries the military function had gradually diminished when the tower was adapted to became a chapel. From this period dates the late romanesque window and Calvary,
The first documentary mention of of Santa Maria Antigua de Zumarraga dates from 1366 from the time of King Henry Ii of Castille. A century later, in 1482 a hard-headed local Abbot, Don Martin de Gurruchaga, challenged in the Law Courts, Queen Isabella the Catholic, for willful neglect of the parish church of which she was a patron.
Abbot Don Martin was the first to start keeping a book recording Baptisms, well before the Council of Trent institutionalised it. The most famous entry of this book is that of the baptism in 1505 of a local boy who made good - Don Miguel Lopez de legazpi - the conqueror of the Phillipines.
The vaulted roof is supported by six stone columns
The timber work is spectacular and is decorated with typical Basque, early medieval geometric and anthropomorphic motifs. Traces of painted decoration were also found on the timber. during the 1967 restoration work.
A copy o fthe external Calvary on the Eastern wall is regarded sufficiently significant of Basque medieval art to have a cast displayed in the San Telma Fine Arts Museum in Donostia-San Sebastian.
The church is still consecrated and mass is celebrated here once a monh.
Source of information - the Chapel's official visitor's flyer in English and French.
Clarkia prostrata, or use the name Prostrate Clarkia (duh. brilliant, eh?) San Simeon field, San Luis Obispo County, CA. This plant IS very low-growing and is blooming about six weeks early. Known from only this locality and north to Monterey.
25Mar15 BushPhoto
Onagraceae - Family; Evening-Primrose Family
Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' 3/2022 Norway N3- (Greg Williams, VT 1990s) Prostrate Norway Spruce, Size at 10 years: 6in.x4ft., golden, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed N3 for 34 MONTHS (Stanley). Planted in 2019.
American Conifer Society: Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' is a broadly spreading, slow-growing selection of Norway spruce with layered branches and golden-yellow foliage that looks its best when given 3 to 4 hours of morning sun. If grown in shade, plants will appears greenish yellow and if grown in full sun young plants will burn badly.
After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 2 feet (60 cm) tall and 4 feet (1.3 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 4 to 6 inches (10 - 15 cm).
This cultivar originated as a golden branch sport found on a specimen of P. abies 'Repens' in the mid-1990s by Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery, Wolcott, Vermont, USA. It was first listed under the illegitimate name, 'Repens Aurea' and later changed. Another illegitimate synonym is 'Repens Gold.'
Stanley & Sons Nursery: A prostrate, golden form of Norway Spruce. Leaves solid gold and normal size. Plant completely prostrate. Old name of cultivar is `Picea abies `Repens Aurea'. Grows 4 to 6 inches a year. Found and introduced by Greg Williams.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2022:
www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
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Situated in the Basque Country (Euskal Herria) in Northern Spain, in the Pyrennean foothills, this is San Ignacio de Loyola Country, for the saint himself came to prostrate himself in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary pointing the way to Aranzazu.
The choice for the location of the original fortress was purely defensive, as it commands views over four provinces. Originally the fortress was erected to stem off invaders using the roads in the valley below, along the rivers Alto Urola and Oria. This military function is reflected both in the size (30 x 20 metres, too large for a chapel), thickness of the tower walls as well as in the small openings for the use of arms. The original plan provided in time of crisis, for a shelter for animals, on the ground level and for people accommodation on the first floor.
The origin of this structure is steeped in the legends of Basque Mythology, when giants threw huge rocks from the top of the mountain to erect this building.
This belief has to do with the fact that the sandstone material is allochtonous and originates from some distance.
By the 14th and 15th centuries the military function had gradually diminished when the tower was adapted to became a chapel. From this period dates the late romanesque window and calvary,
The first documentary mention of of santa Maria Antigua de Zumarraga dates from 1366 from the time of King Henry Ii of Castille. A century later, in 1482 a hard-headed local Abbot, Don Martin de Gurruchaga, challenged in the Law Courts, Queen Isabella the Catholic for wullful neglect of the parish church of which she was a patron.
Abbot Don Martin was the first to start keeping a book recording Baptisms, well before the Council of Trent institutionalised it. The most famous entry of this book is that of the baptism in 1505 of a local boy who made good - Don Miguel Lopez de legazpi - the conqueror of the Phillipines.
The roof timber work is spectacular and is decorated with early medieval geometric patterns and some anthropomorphic details. Traces of painted decoration were also found on the timber. during the 1967 restoration work. The vaulted roof is supported by six stone columns
A copy o fthe calvary (seen above) is regarded sufficiently representative to have a cast displayed in the San Telma Fine Arts Museum in Donostia-San Sebastian.
The church is still consecrated and mass is celebrated here once a monh.
Source of information - the Chapel's official visitor's flyer in English and French.
In the south transept stands the Roman tombstone of Flavinus, shown mounted on his horse overcoming a prostrate Ancient Briton. At nine feet tall it is the largest Roman memorial stone found in Britain and likely originated from the Roman site at Corbridge nearby, from where St Wilfrid's men recycled much stonework to build the Abbey in the late 7th century. The stone was discovered in 1881 during repair work under the floor of the Abbey church.
www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/top-10-things-see/flavinus-tombstone
Hexham Abbey started life as a Benedictine monastery founded by St Wilfrid in 674, building his church from recycled Roman stonework. The building would have been significantly smaller than that which we see today though a small part of it remains in the Abbey's famous Anglo Saxon crypt, a four-chambered space (one of the most ancient Christian structures still in use in Britain) concealed beneath the present nave. Most of the present church however is the result of 13th century rebuilding in the Early English style.
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 the Abbey church was retained for use as the town's parish church of St Andrew, which it has remained ever since. Most of the monastic buildings and the medieval nave were abandoned and quarried away around this time, leaving just the choir and transepts in use. The Victorian period saw major restoration of the church which included the rebuilding of the eastern bay of the choir in 1858, whilst ongoing work to improve the state of the abbey culminated in the early years of the 20th century with the rebuilding of the ruined nave (reusing the original foundations and lower parts of the walls) to the designs of Temple Moore, which was consecrated in 1908.
The Abbey is a delight to explore and retains much of interest from the medieval period, including many original furnishings and a surprisingly rich collection of 15th century paintings on wood, incorporated into the choir screen and stalls, and yet further in the two chantry chapels flanking the high altar. One of the chapels, the chantry of Prior Leschman, is famous for its primitive stone carvings. The oldest item in the church however is the 'Frith Stool' in the centre of the choir, an ancient bishop's throne from St Wilfrid's time which would have been in use when the previous church was briefly designated as a cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexham_Abbey
Hexham Abbey is a church I'd wanted to see for many years and finally getting to see it was no disappointment. I was also made very welcome here by everyone I met and would happily return. The church is currently closed to the public for renovation (Jan-March 2019) but is normally open and welcoming on a daily basis.
Don't read this if you are very sensitive. It's not nice.
Today I came back from the Killing Fields, Choeung Ek Genocide Centre, and saw a fatal RTA. He was lying still in the road, helmet on, no blood, with a ring of spectators standing around him. My driver took a detour to rubber neck and said simply and without emotion, 'He's dead'. The memory of his feet and legs and arms splayed from his prostrate body will stay with me for a long time. Especially following the story of the Killing Fields.
Here at Choeung Ek, at least 17,000 people were executed during the 3 year period when the Khmer Rouge were in power from 1975-78. At its peak there were 300 being murdered every day (in all 3 million died out of a total population of 8 million). It's important to remember this because it could happen again; seemingly nice people the world over, people surrounding us now, could, somehow, in the same way, begin to act in a similar psychopathic manner. Christ or Buddha knows why or how.
The commentary on the audio was pretty descriptive. Don't read on if the former has already disturbed you.
The Cambodian 'dissenters' (intellectuals, teachers, ministers, monks and others) were rounded up and sent to the likes of Tuol Sleng (S21, the secret prison in PP) and then, after 'confessing' (to collusion with the CIA or the KGB or Royalists), were transported ('in Chinese and English trucks') to Choeung Ek for death by drowning, garroting, throat cutting (with e.g. the stems of the sugar palm), machetes, and worse - anything in fact that didn't involve the use of expensive bullets. Not everyone who fell in the death pits were dead, but they soon were. As they were killed the guards played loud music blaring out from speakers on the 'magic tree' in order to hide the screams of the victims from the locals (how they couldn't know what was really happening is beyond credibility), but what it must have felt like to the other prisoners to listen to this ...
Near the 'magic' tree was another one. This was used by the guards to kill babies: afterwards a grave was unearthed nearby and the investigators found evidence (blood, bones, brain matter) clinging to the bark adjacent to the pit: they had bashed the babies to death on the tree. How to God ...? Today the tree, and the posts surrounding the other exhumed mass graves, is festooned with friendship bracelets donated by the thousands of visitors who have been as shocked by this as I was. The former commandant of S21, Duch (as in 'douch bag') was escorted to the site during his trial in 2006 and he broke down in tears at this tree and asked forgiveness from the dead and the living. He still resides in prison having been given Life.
The site was chosen by the KR because it was partly already a graveyard, but it was also an orchard. It seems they, the KR, liked to choose innocuous and innocent settings for their most terrible crimes (S21 was formerly a high school, and the killing caves at Battambang were previously used as a theatre). Some of the Chinese graves are now reappearing in amongst the pits and mounds of the 'communal' graves. One of these communal graves contained the bodies of 450 people, another consisted of the decapitated corpses of 166 soldiers who hadn't lived up to the discipline, policies and strictures of the KR communist regime. It was said that the stench from the pits was extreme and that bloated, gas-filled corpses pushed the earth up. They used DDT to try and quench the smell and prevent disease.
A large stupa has been erected to 'commemorate' the atrocity which is 'celebrated' every May, initially as a 'Day of Anger', and now as a 'Day of Remembrance'. It contains 8000 skulls.
As I walked around the site, alongside pleasant, landscaped, peaceful gardens, with the rain appropriately pelting down and silencing everything, doves bathed in puddles, bulbuls bubbled in the trees and a common blue kingfisher sat silent on a small branch above the shallows of the lake watching for ripples. A lake which still holds countless dead.
In some of the sheltered preserved pits and graves, some fragments of rags and maybe a bone or a tooth could be seen. The staff collect such remnants and store and catalogue them carefully every two weeks as the rain continuously uncovers them.
The museum has a potted history of some of the high command. It seems most of them were educated (teachers, professors, monks - the fucking hypocrites). Some died of natural causes (disease mainly), some defected to the Royalist government after Pol Pot died in 1998 (maybe poisoned by his own followers? Anyway, they are still at large and Hun Sen, the present PM, is supposed to have been a former battalion commander of the KR before Pol Pot forced him to flee to Vietnam), or even his closest advisors were sent to the likes of S21 and then Choueng Ek (Pol Pot was notoriously paranoid - 'better to kill an innocent by mistake than to spare an enemy by mistake').
I have seen many of these 'dark tourism' sites around the world (Hungary, Bosnia, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Auschwitz, Romania, Hanoi Hilton) but this affected me more than most. Maybe it was the honest book by Vann Nath that primed me, maybe it was Roland Joffe's film from 1984, 'The Killing Fields', that set me up to be affected. I don't know. But it was profoundly moving. And then there was the RTA.
A very prostrate evergreen Cotoneaster, whose long trailing shoots are studded in autumn with bright red berries. It is a first rate ground cover plant, ideal for covering banks and as undercover beneath trees and larger shrubs.
It was discovered in China by Ernest Wilson, and introduced to the UK in 1900. AGM 2002.
Just out of interest ...
Ernest Wilson (1876-1930)
An amateur British botanist in China had alerted Kew to the alarming impact that the charcoal industry was having on the forests of Yunnan province. Concerned, William Thiselton-Dyer at Kew sent a trained botanist, 23-year-old Ernest Henry Wilson, to investigate.
‘Of athletic build, and endowed with an indomitable courage and perseverance’, his mission was not only to botanise but also to satisfy the horticultural needs of his financier, the Veitch nursery, for interesting hardy garden plants.
He was to search for one plant in particular, which had been described but never collected. This was the Handkerchief Tree(Davidia involucrata). Following a sketched map and instructions, Wilson located the valley where the tree was last sighted – only to find a stump and a newly erected hut built from its timber! Fortunately he persevered and was later successful.
In all, EH ‘Chinese’ Wilson brought us over 1,000 garden plants and around 16,000 herbarium specimens, introducing more plants to Western horticulture than any other collector. His introductions included the Beauty Bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis), the ‘Wilson 50’ Kurume azaleas, and the magnificent King’s Lily (Lilium regale), the collection of which very nearly cost him his life.
Sinowilsonia henryi from central and western China and many species are named in his honour.
Veitch Memorial Medal 1906
Victoria Medal of Honour 1912
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate legume, with rhizomes and usually less than 15 cm tall. Stems are hollow. Leaves have 5 leaflets, which are ovate to obovate, to 25 mm long and with long marginal hairs. Flowerheads are clusters of 8-14 yellow flowers (10-12 mm long) on the end of unbranched stalks. Pods are long and cylindrical. Flowering is from late summer to autumn.
A native of Europe and North Africa, it is sown and naturalized in high rainfall areas and on wet and waterlogged soils. It is tolerant of acid low-fertility soils. Seed is now difficult to obtain. Usually slow to establish, but will tolerate grass competition after 2-3 years. Can grow under low fertility conditions, but is responsive to increased phosphorus. Tends to die off in patches in hot, dry conditions; reshoot when conditions are favourable. Tolerant of wet conditions, but does not survive prolonged flooding. Low bloat risk. High tannin in some varieties can cause periods of lower palatability, but this can reduce overgrazing and help persistence. More tolerant of grazing than Lotus corniculatus, but some leaf should remain after grazing. Provide some rest in autumn to aid seed set and spread, but conditions may not be suitable every year for seed set.
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.
A Hindu devotee prostrates and performs rituals during Sitala Puja, dedicated to the worship of Goddess Sitala, in Kolkata, India. Rituals are performed on this day to call upon the Goddess to prevent outbreak of diseases.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate legume, with rhizomes and usually less than 15 cm tall. Stems are hollow. Leaves have 5 leaflets, which are ovate to obovate, to 25 mm long and with long marginal hairs. Flowerheads are clusters of 8-14 yellow flowers (10-12 mm long) on the end of unbranched stalks. Pods are long and cylindrical. Flowering is from late summer to autumn.
A native of Europe and North Africa, it is sown and naturalized in high rainfall areas and on wet and waterlogged soils. It is tolerant of acid low-fertility soils. Seed is now difficult to obtain. Usually slow to establish, but will tolerate grass competition after 2-3 years. Can grow under low fertility conditions, but is responsive to increased phosphorus. Tends to die off in patches in hot, dry conditions; reshoot when conditions are favourable. Tolerant of wet conditions, but does not survive prolonged flooding. Low bloat risk. High tannin in some varieties can cause periods of lower palatability, but this can reduce overgrazing and help persistence. More tolerant of grazing than Lotus corniculatus, but some leaf should remain after grazing. Provide some rest in autumn to aid seed set and spread, but conditions may not be suitable every year for seed set.
Zone: 6-9
Height: 12-24in. tall and 6-8ft. wide
This splendid little conifer begins nearly flat, then acquires a central leader which, if you leave it unpruned adds a bit of height and depth to the display.
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Taken at Campbell Valley Park, Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
"I'm fine. Why do ask?"
"Well, for one.... you're prostrate on the boardwalk and I thought there may be a medical problem."
"No. No medical problem. Don't you realize how short you ducks are? One has to really stoop to get you at a good angle, and stooping doesn't come easy at my age. Move a little more to the right where the light plays off your head better.
"I beg your pardon! I'm not your pet! Don't tell me what to do or I'll peck your pixels!
"Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. But, there's some seed over there where I was pointing you to, and it would be just 'ducky' of you if you try some of it out!
"Well, that's much better! Very nice of you to offer! Thank you!
NOTE TO SELF: Sometimes, you've just got to take it lying down!
Introduced, warm season, perennial, prostrate herb to 60 cm tall. Leaves and stems are hairy with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, deeply veined and stem clasping. Blue to mauve tubular flowers (with yellow stamens and throat) arranged caterpillar-like in 2 rows on one side of the flowering stem (scirpoid cyme). Flowers most of the year, but not in winter in southern areas. Grows on a wide range of soil types. Predominantly in areas that receive at least 50% of average annual rainfall in summer. It is mostly a problem of run down pasture and disturbed areas such as cropping paddocks, roadsides and waste land. Regenerates from seed and vegetatively from pieces of plant and roots. It is spread by water, fur of animals and in the gut of animals. A weed which is toxic to animals, quite invasive and difficult to control. Causes chronic liver damage in cattle, sheep and horses; can be fatal. Cultivation encourages its spread by stimulating germination and regrowth of plant parts. Management requires an integrated approach including herbicides, productive pasture, grazing management and biological control. There has only been one biological control agent released in Australia, the blue heliotrope leaf-beetle. At high densities, leaf-beetles can completely defoliate blue heliotrope, with both the larvae and adults feeding on the leaves.