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Combretaceae (rangoon creeper family) » Anogeissus latifolia
an-oh-GEE-sus -- upward-tilted, refers to the scale-like fruiting heads
lat-ee-FOH-lee-uh or lat-ih-FOH-lee-uh -- wide leaves
commonly known as: axle-wood tree, button tree, ghatti tree • Bengali: chakwa, dhaoya • Gujarati: ધવ dhav, ધાવડો dhavado • Hindi: धौरा dhaura • Kannada: ದಿಣ್ಡಿಗ dindiga • Malayalam: കൊരട്ടിക്കാഞ്ഞിരം korattikkaanjiram, മഴുക്കാഞ്ഞിരം mazhukkaanjiram, ഞാമ njaama, വെക്കാലി vekkaali, വെള്ള നവ vella nava • Marathi: धावडा dhavada • Oriya: dohu, dhavada • Sanskrit: धवः dhavaha, धुरंधर dhurandhara, इन्द्रवृक्ष indravruksha, शकटाय shakataaya • Sinhalese: dawu • Tamil: நமை namai, வெள்ளைநாகை vellainakai, வெட்காலி vet-kali • Telugu: చిరిమాను chirimanu
Native to: India, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
References: Flowers of India • World Agroforestry Centre • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT • DDSA
Twm next to the beast of Southsea Common.
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Luna Park &
An Unreachable Country. A Long Way To Go
Heather & Ivan Morison
31 July - 10 October 2010
Portsmouth and Southsea’s skyline will be transformed this summer by the spectacular addition of Luna Park, Heather & Ivan Morison’s recreation of the accidental dinosaur Ultrasauros. Created in the style of American roadside super-sculptures and standing at 16 metres tall on Southsea Common, Luna Park will be visible from miles around.
In the 1970s, Professor Jim Jensen discovered a set of giant bones that were believed to belong to Ultrasauros, the largest dinosaur ever. More than a decade later however, it was revealed that his discovery was in fact a chimera made up of two different species; the Ultrasauros was an untruth.
The Morison’s Luna Park, which forms part of their exhibition, An Unreachable Country. A Long Way To Go at aspex, continues their recent investigations into the blurring of fact and fiction, and of creating events and sites that encourage viewers to pause and question their surroundings. On Southsea Common, the Ultrasauros will not only provide a new symbol for the city, but can also function as a meeting place, a shelter, a temporary landmark, a rallying point, a social space for local and international communities.
The sculpture is being made in a small rural village outside the city of Kragujevac in Serbia. The construction team of engineers, welders, assemblers and model makers are all ex-employees of the Zastava car factory that was the main employer of Kragujevac, making Yugo cars, before it closed. At 16 metres tall, the dinosaur is being constructed in a specially built workshop made from disassembled timbers of pallets from the old car factory.
Luna Park is made from a steel skeleton covered with a hard, coloured polyester shell – the same materials used to model Yugos. This fascinating collaboration with Serbia, has become an integral part of the artistic vision for the work. A new film, to be screened at the gallery, will reveal the construction and installation process, as the artists’ continue to merge information into a narrative that builds on the mythology of their own lives and the lives of people they encounter.
Southsea Common will be the first home for Luna Park. It will then travel to Colchester in association with Firstsite and to Cardiff with Chapter. Luna Park is a Chapter initiative that has been commissioned in collaboration with Safle through the Stiwdio Safle programme, aspex Portsmouth and Firstsite Colchester. The project has received generous financial support from Safle, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council England through Sustain and is part-financed by the European Union.
Front of scale I use to take approximate measurements of specimens in pics I am uploading on flickr.com. (purchased along with other estate sale items, in a rockshop, 2 years ago.)
This is an old photo I've recropped and slightly reprocessed for a contest. Theme is "texture" and I thought the green scales make an interesting example of that.
Flowering season: Apr to May
Country of origin: India, South-East Asia
An evergreen tree. A mangrove species. It is abundantly found at the Sundarbans delta, the largest mangrove forest in the world; this is why the tree gets its local name ”Sundari”.
Leaves - The underside of the leaf is densely covered with pale or silvery-white scales. This characteristic gives it the name Looking-glass Mangrove.
Flowers - numerous, yellowish-green, bell-shaped, about 5 mm long, usually 5-toothed and borne on hairy panicles. Frruit - hard, shining, woody, smooth, broadly boat-shaped, 4-8 cm long and keeled on one side.
It is threatened by the loss of mangrove habitat throughout its range, primarily due to extraction and coastal development.
The Sundari tree is a food plant for the larval stages of the Common Oakblue Butterfly. It is the only specimen in all of Maharashtra.
Please click on the link below to view the photographs related to Sundari tree in my flickr account.
www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/sets/721576330148...
In some German railway stations, you can drive the train of your choice for only 1 euro - at 1:87 scale
Those aren't leaves. The cormorants are back, and nesting on the Leslie spit.
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?
Did a little work on my scale toyota today. Installed a snorkel and a new rear bumper with swing out tire carrier.
Check out my scale crawler youtube channel;
Melissa Scales, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, loses control of the ball during a drill in South Gym March 3, 2022, as part of activities to help Physical Therapy students understand some of the challenges faced by wheelchair athletes. The organization BridgeIISports brought sports wheelchairs and coordinated activities for the students. (Rob Brown photo)
You have to keep the weight down to under 5 pounds, or it just wont get off the ground. Converting shaft drive mechs to cable, allows me to keep tail rotor blades in there scale position.