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The eggplant is a delicate, tropical perennial plant often cultivated as a tender or half-hardy annual in temperate climates. The stem is often spiny. The flowers are white to purple in color, with a five-lobed corolla and yellow stamens. Some common cultivars have fruit that is egg-shaped, glossy, and purple with white flesh and a spongy ...
Red, green and blue lights, representing the three basic additive primary colors of the RGB color system, red, green, and blue. Magenta light is composed of equal amounts of red and blue light. Magenta, shown at the right, is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model, used to make all the colors on computer and television displays.
The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) measurement of nearly 7 (actually, z = 6.604). [5] Galaxy Cosmos Redshift 7 is reported to be the brightest of distant galaxies (z > 6) and to contain some of the earliest first stars ( first generation ; Population III ) that produced the chemical elements needed for the later formation of ...
The sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. [2] [3] The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with ...
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 binary name, officinalis, refers to the plant's medicinal use—the officina was the traditional storeroom of a monastery where herbs and medicines were stored. S. officinalis has been classified under many other scientific names over the years, including six different names since 1940 alone. It is the type species for the genus Salvia.
The carrot ( Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though heirloom variants including purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, [2] [3] [4] all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated in Persia ...
CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (84, 39, 1°) Source. HTML/CSS [1] B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.