liver coloration

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Paghat's Garden: Hepatica nobilis var acuta, Pallid Blue
... it first starts flowering, it does not yet have any new leaves, but has only the beat-up liver-colored leaves remaining from the previous year's growth. No later than the end of March, & ... , the leaves remain present the rest of the year, until they once again take on their diseased-liver coloration in winter. We also have a powder-blue flowered Hepatica nobilis var obtusa or American Roundlobe ...
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Properties of peaches
... peaches is its wealth in carotenes, among them xantofile is the carotenoid that gives the yellow coloration to this fruit. Among their more interesting virtues we should mention their anticancerous properties especially in ... a good antioxidant. It is a not very heavy food for the stomach and helps the liver to carry out the digestive processes by increasing the production of the bile so it favors ...
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Wildflowers of West Virginia
... you about the "Doctrine of Signatures". In the "good ole days," people believed that the shape, coloration or some other physical characteristic of the plant indicated its medicinal use. Linnaeus and many other ... used this theory in naming plants. The leaves of Hepatica resemble the human liver and the Latin word for liver is hepa. Mertensia virginica can also be seen in abundance in the early ...
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Gaudy Ladies: Splash Petal Cattleyas, 24 Apr 96
... something with splash background gives splash petals with greater splashing -- intensifies the splash in size and/or coloration. C. trianaei var. mooreana genes give splashes. C. intermedia var. aquinii: It is said there were only ... on the petals (and often the sepals as well). It can simply be this manner of coloration and/or it can be a form of peloric, where the petals are mimicking the color ...
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Shady Herbs
... native Southern Mexico, although experts state it has carcinogenic properties and is also toxic to the liver.. Pineapple Sage Salvia elegans Family Lamiaceae KYPhoto(13k) Pineapple Sage is a tender perennial that will ... heat shaped green, yellow and pink leaves rather than eating them. 'Chameleon' loses its pink coloration during the summer heat. It is a low growing plant, hardy to zone 6, that is ...
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Paghat's Garden: Hepatica nobilis var obtusa, Powder Blue
... first photo above shows it in February (2003) with new blooms but old leaves, showing the liver-coloration of winter. Spring's bright green leaves become nicely colored as autumn progresses, until eventually ... which inspired the name Hepatica, alluding to the hepatic system, or liver. Toward the end of winter, flowers join the aging leaves, & the flowers persist until new leaves arrive in March & ...
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Lamium - Leucosceptrum -- Plant Delights Nursery Catalog Page 69
... (RHS 28A) and red-orange (RHS 42A) on the same flower. It does not have the pink coloration as seen in L. 'Miss Huff'. It has proven to be sterile unless planted in the presence of ... winters. The bulbs produce 1' long, deciduous, strap-like grey-green leaves that are heavily spotted with random liver-colored patterns. Each easy-to-grow, 20" wide clump looks great in the summer rock garden or as a ...
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