griffs photos on Flickr

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Australia Zoo, Queensland, Australia.

(cultivated)

Zingiber spectabile Griff. Zingiberaceae. CN: [Malay - Tepus tanah, Tepus halia, Tepus halia puar, Tepus tunduk, Tepai, Chadak], Beehive ginger, Gold beehive ginger, Black gingerwort, Golden scepter, Nodding gingerwort, Malaysian ginger. Native of Thailand, peninsular Malaysia (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Trengganu). Common herb about 2 m tall in lowland forests. Pouch-like yellowish inflorescence bracts with incurved margins; distinctive flower having dark purple with many small dots. Used in folk medicine to reduce swellings and cleaning eyelids.

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. K. Larsen, et. al.

www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24262

Griff the Dragon by Amanda Berry

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Knitting pattern design by Amanda Berry

Griff McGarry by Bryan Green

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Griff - Sweet Dreamers by kandilareyna

Lorbat Gobears by jsutcℓiffe

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A few years old, this one. Painted in honour of the Bears making it to the Superbowl (Go Bears, geddit?). I should have also got Griff Oberwald and painted him up in Colts colours.

Eugeissona tristis Griff by Ahmad Fuad Bin Morad

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Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia.

Eugeissona tristis Griff. Arecaceae. CN: [Malay - Bertam, Indonesia (Ato, Kajatao, Pantu, Nanga, Pijatau)], Wild Bornean sago. Native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. Fruits - edible. Stem - starch as the staple food of indigenous people in Borneo. Palm cabbage - vegetable. Leaves - serves as thatch and for the construction of walls. Leaves stalk - used to make blowpipe darts. Edible pollen - eaten as a condiment for rice or sago dishes. Fruits eaten to relieve kidney ailments. Common in lowland forest. Big clump, short stem, thorny. Pinnate leaf ca 6-7 m length, dropping at distal end. Leaflets lanceolate, ca 1m length, 2-2.5 cm width, neatly arranged along rachis. Rachis spiny; spadix terminal. Fruit top-shaped, 5 cm long, scaly, brownish, hard shell.

Ref and suggested reading:

birg1.fbb.utm.my/jbiodi/page.php?pageid=s_found&s_id=...

griff-20190602514 by Mark Hudson

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Griff by food shark

photo by Doug Kuhnsman. Food Shark customer 2011.

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RIUM, WP Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Zingiber spectabile Griff. Zingiberaceae. CN: [Malay - Tepus tanah, Tepus halia, Tepus halia puar, Tepus tunduk, Tepai, Chadak], Beehive ginger, Gold beehive ginger, Black gingerwort, Golden scepter, Nodding gingerwort, Malaysian ginger. Native of Thailand, peninsular Malaysia (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Trengganu). Common herb about 2 m tall in lowland forests. Pouch-like yellowish inflorescence bracts with incurved margins; distinctive flower having dark purple with many small dots. Used in folk medicine to reduce swellings and cleaning eyelids.

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. K. Larsen, et. al.

www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-70521

Griff Rhys Jones 1 by Adam Roberts

Griff by Barney Moss

Bttf Griff figure Card by Strike U

Griff Peak by Chris M Morris

Griff Peak from Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP

griff 301 by yeskatribe

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Epiprinus malayanus Griff. by Ahmad Fuad Bin Morad

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Malaysia.

(Image credit Dr. Ahmad Fitri Zohari, Malaysia)

Epiprinus malayanus Griff. Euphorbiaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Balong hijau, Chendur, Chindra, Cendera, Jarak hitam, Munot, Beliboh, Kayu rengkow (Temuan), Kemesul. Distribution - Southern part of the Thai Peninsula, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra; also in Burma. Habitat & Ecology — Primary lowland rain forests, evergreen forests, secondary forests, usually on hillsides, also often along water; soil sand and shale; 33--600 m asl. Shrubs to trees, up to 20 m high, up to 20 cm diameter, crown often thin; twigs dark red, flowering branches 4—6 mm thick. Outer bark smooth to somewhat rough to lenticellate, c. 1 mm thick, brown to patchy light brown and grey to grey; inner bark c. 2 mm thick, yellowish to yellow-green to pale green (to brown); wood white to yellow-white (to brown). Stipules triangular to long elliptic, 3.5—11.8(—16) by 1.3—1.5 mm, outside stellately hairy, inside sericeous with simple hairs, basally 2 glands outside. Leaves red then yellow when young; petiole (not of the subsessile upper leaves) (0.3—)5—20.4 cm long, round except basally flattened above. Inflorescences terminal, 3.5—24 cm long, reddish. Flowers pink to red, slightly fragrant. Fruits 15—20 mm high by c. 16 (1 lobe developed), 19—30 mm wide, red to pink-red.

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

www.nationaalherbarium.nl/Euphorbs/specE/Epiprinus.htm

Griff by Kelsey Gwynne

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Griff was a lot of fun to photograph, he listened quite quite and is very photogenic!

Coventry Canal Towpath Trail: Hawkesbury Junction by Amanda Slater

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Oxford Canal

Bridge 1

Hawkesbury Junction Bridge

1837 by the Britannia Foundry, Derby.

Black Cloud Sutton Stop

The Coventry Canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1768, and although the long term aim was to link Coventry to the Grand Trunk Canal, (later called the Trent and Mersey Canal), the first priority was to reach the coalfields at Bedworth, so that coal could be shipped to Coventry. The first 10 miles (16 km) were completed in 1769, and coal traffic proved profitable. The Oxford Canal was authorised in that year, and was built as a contour canal by James Brindley, which made it rather inefficient for the transport of goods. Brindley died in 1772, and the line from Coventry to Banbury was completed by Samuel Simcock in 1778.

The junction between the canals was the source of great controversy. The Oxford Canal's Act of Parliament contained clauses which stipulated that both companies had the right to the tolls on the other's canal for certain traffic which passed between them. Thus the tolls for all coal traffic on the first 2 miles of the Oxford Canal were to go to the Coventry company, while tolls which the Coventry Canal collected for the first 3.5 miles of travel by all goods except coal which had passed through the junction were to be given to the Oxford company. The junction was originally to be located at Gosford Green, but Brindley changed his mind while the bill was in Parliament, and tried to get the junction moved to Bedworth. This would have deprived the Coventry Canal of tolls on all coal traffic using the Oxford Canal, and so a compromise was reached. Longford was chosen as the site for the junction, and the compensation clauses were added to ensure that the Coventry Canal received much the same revenue as it would have done, had the junction been at Gosford. It was a complicated solution, and required both canals to run parallel to one another for some distance.

The Oxford company sought ways to alter the solution. First they tried offering £1,500 to the Coventry Canal, in the hope that the compensation clauses would not be enacted. Then they tried to obtain a second Act of Parliament, which would remove the clauses, but this was defeated by opposition from the Coventry Canal and its supporters. Their next tactic was to plan a bypass, which would connect to the Birmingham Canal system, and avoid the need for a junction altogether. This failed, and so they did nothing for two years, but in 1776 made another attempt to reach agreement. They agreed that they would accept the compensation payments if the Coventry Canal completed their line to Fradley Junction within five years. The Coventry company replied by suggesting that if the junction was opened immediately, and trade could only pass between the canals at the junction, they would build their line to Fradley as soon as possible. If they failed to reach Fradley in seven years, no compensation claims would be made until the link was made. The Oxford company then suggested that they should assist the Coventry company to build a canal to the Staffordshire collieries, but the offer was not welcomed.

Finally, the Coventry Canal took legal action. They obtained a mandamus writ from the Court of King's Bench, which compelled the Oxford company to open the junction. The junction was opened on 15 April 1777 at Longford. There was an error in the levels, and whereas a level junction controlled by a stop lock was anticipated, the Oxford Canal was about 7 inches higher, which resulted in it losing water to the Coventry Canal every time the lock was used. The canals ran parallel for 1 mile, costing the boatmen time and the carriers money. Sir Roger Newdigate described the whole thing as "a very troublesome contrivance".

The junction was moved to its present location in 1803. In commercial carrying times, the junction was a major rendezvous for working boats awaiting orders for their next cargo from the many pits in the area.

A stop lock on the Oxford Canal isolates the water levels of the two original canal companies, with the Oxford being a little higher. A disused engine house, built in 1821, stands on the western bank of the Coventry Canal. It originally housed a Newcomen steam engine, which was brought from Griff Colliery, where it had already worked for 100 years, and which was used to pump water from mines in the area to supply the canal. By 1913, the developing shafts of the Coventry Colliery had reached below the geographical reach of the pump engine. Named Lady Godiva, it was decommissioned in 1913 but left in place, and eventually moved to the Dartmouth Museum in the 1960s, as the Newcomen Memorial Engine. The canal provided an immediate outlet for the colliery's pumped-out water ingress

Griff in Script Chat by Adam Roberts

18 - Hodor with door 2 (Game of Thrones) by Erin

Griff

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Australia Zoo, Queensland, Australia.

(cultivated)

Zingiber spectabile Griff. Zingiberaceae. CN: [Malay - Tepus tanah, Tepus halia, Tepus halia puar, Tepus tunduk, Tepai, Chadak], Beehive ginger, Gold beehive ginger, Black gingerwort, Golden scepter, Nodding gingerwort, Malaysian ginger. Native of Thailand, peninsular Malaysia (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Trengganu). Common herb about 2 m tall in lowland forests. Pouch-like yellowish inflorescence bracts with incurved margins; distinctive flower having dark purple with many small dots. Used in folk medicine to reduce swellings and cleaning eyelids.

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. K. Larsen, et. al.

www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2779457

griff-20190602512 by Mark Hudson

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Griff Sextet (10) by Mattijs

During the Folkwoods Festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

On Sunday the 15th of August, 19:45h in tent 2:

The Griff Sextet

Durio oxleyanus Griff. by Ahmad Fuad Bin Morad

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Perak, Malaysia.

(Image credit Shah Redza, Malaysia)

Durio oxleyanus Griff. Malvaceae. CN: [Malay and regonal vernacular names - Durian beludu, Durian daun, Dian, Durian, Lai, Lai bengang, Kartungan, Kerantongan, Kerantungan, Ketungan, Kutongan, Sukang, Dalit, Ladyin tedak. Distribution - Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, West-, Central- and East-Kalimantan). Upper canopy tree up to 50 m tall and 90 cm dbh. Stipules present but soon falling. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-veined, lower surface whitish, with hairs instead of scales. Flowers ca. 15 mm diameter, white-yellow, 2-3-lobed epicalyx, placed in cymes on the twigs behind the leaves. Fruits ca. 140 mm long, green, capsule with long spines, seeds completely enclosed by pale yellow, sweet, edible aril. Fruits are eaten and locally sold on markets. The timber is used for planks. The bark and seeds are used for medicinal purposes.

Synonym(s):

Durio gratissimus Becc.

Neesia griffithii Planch. ex Mast.

Ref.:

FRIM Flora Database

www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316153

www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea/products/afdbases/af/...

www.asianplant.net/Malvaceae/Durio_oxleyanus.htm

Compleanno griffato by tortedecorate

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Australia Zoo, Queensland, Australia.

(cultivated)

Zingiber spectabile Griff. Zingiberaceae. CN: [Malay - Tepus tanah, Tepus halia, Tepus halia puar, Tepus tunduk, Tepai, Chadak], Beehive ginger, Gold beehive ginger, Black gingerwort, Golden scepter, Nodding gingerwort, Malaysian ginger. Native of Thailand, peninsular Malaysia (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Trengganu). Common herb about 2 m tall in lowland forests. Pouch-like yellowish inflorescence bracts with incurved margins; distinctive flower having dark purple with many small dots. Used in folk medicine to reduce swellings and cleaning eyelids.

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. K. Larsen, et. al.