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The A-Z of Curious London
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- Оригинална публикация
- 2013
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- 2013
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- The History Press
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- Laura Sцитирапреди 8 години
The Waterlily House is also a listed building and dates back to 1852. It is Kew’s hottest and most humid environment, housing tropical, ornamental aquatic plants and climbers. There are Nymphaea waterlilies, a giant Victoria cruziana, sacred lotus, papyrus, gourds, loofah, as well as economically important plants including rice, bananas, taro, sugar cane and lemon grass. - Laura Sцитирапреди 8 годиниIn 1876, Kew was given 70,000 rubber tree seeds from the Amazon. Only 2,800 germinated, but from them, seedlings sent to Malaysia flourished, starting the massive rubber industry. There are also African oil palms, from which the oil can be pressed from the flesh to make soap and can
- Laura Sцитирапреди 8 годиниThere are coffee bushes, jade vines, the Madagascar periwinkle and the coco de mer, which is the world’s largest seed and looks rather like a human bottom, weighing up to 30kg. The seed is native to the Seychelles and comes from a fan palm that grows only on the tiny island of Praslin.
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