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The Purple Forbidden enclosure is a name used in traditional Chinese astronomy for those Chinese constellations that surround the north celestial pole. Geography. Purple Mountain is located on the eastern side of Nanjing. Its peaks are often found enveloped in purple clouds at dawn and dusk, hence comes its name "Purple Mountain".
The purple swamphen has been split into the following species: [1] [2] [3] Western swamphen , Porphyrio porphyrio, southwest Europe and northwest Africa. African swamphen, Porphyrio madagascariensis, sub-Saharan continental Africa and Madagascar. Grey-headed swamphen, Porphyrio poliocephalus, Middle East, through the Indian subcontinent to ...
The purple heron ( Ardea purpurea) is a wide-ranging heron species. It breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Palearctic. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whereas the African and tropical-Asian populations are primarily sedentary, except for occasional dispersive ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [1]
The purple martin ( Progne subis) is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It is the largest swallow in North America. Despite its name, the purple martin is not truly purple. The dark blackish-blue feathers have an iridescent sheen caused by the diffraction of incident light [2] giving them a bright blue to navy blue or deep ...
Cyperus rotundus is a perennial plant, that may reach a height of up to 140 cm (55 in). The names "nut grass" and "nut sedge" – shared with the related species Cyperus esculentus – are derived from its tubers, that somewhat resemble nuts, although botanically they have nothing to do with nuts. As in other Cyperaceae, the leaves sprout in ...
Purple poppy. A purple poppy, on which the symbol is based. The purple poppy is a symbol of remembrance in the United Kingdom for animals that served during wartime. [1] The symbol was created in 2006 based on the principle of the traditional red remembrance poppy for Remembrance Day. [1]
Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to parts of eastern North America [5] and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States as well as ...