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The main one is implied by its name, "plicatus," or folded; its leaves are furrowed, which causes it to have a folded appearance.
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The bulb, an unusual Galanthus plicatus EA Bowles snowdrop, was bred by John Grimshaw, head gardener at Colesbourne Park, near Cirencester, Glos.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"It's absolutely fantastic because it's the first pure white Galanthus plicatus," notes Joe Sharman, the plantsman and galanthophile who was asked by Myddelton House to twin scale - a.k.a. propagate - the Bowles bulb.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Wells 2011
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On Jan. 31, Turvey, head gardener at Myddelton House and thereby minder of Bowles's horticultural legacy, was the recipient of the happy news that Myddelton's exceptionally rare cultivar, Galanthus plicatus E. A. Bowles, fetched a record-breaking £357 $565 on eBay.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Wells 2011
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The bulb, an unusual Galanthus plicatus EA Bowles snowdrop, was bred by John Grimshaw, head gardener at Colesbourne Park, near Cirencester, Glos.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Galanthus plicatus 'Diggory' - perhaps my favourite snowdrop at the show, soft white billowing petals on the Foxgrove plant stand
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Howard Sooley 2010
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Streptomyces plicatus (PDB code: 1EDT) are composed of one TIM domain.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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They are not the ordinary kind, but a big, robust variety called 'Atkinsii', thought to be a cross between Galanthus nivalis and G. plicatus.
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Blyth's Hornbill (Aceros plicatus), Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
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It approaches the U. plicatus* of Lesueur, more nearly than any other species with which I am acquainted; it differs, however, from that species, strik - ingly, in the colour of the nacre, in the general outline of the shell
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