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  • There is a variety known as pulchella, in which the spines are of

    Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

  • Common species in flooded forests are Caraipa grandiflora, Virola surinamensis, Euterpe oleraceae, Ficus pulchella, Mauritia martiana, Symphonia globulifera, and species of Tovomita and Clusia.

    Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests 2008

  • I seem to recall that one sees this phenomenon mostly, perhaps entirely, in the more smooth, thin-shelled and typically larger species such as T. caribaeensis and T. pulchella, rather than in the more heavily ribbed types: T. scalaris or T. bahamensis and such.

    Who preys on Truncatella AYDIN 2008

  • Dry eucalypt forests are very open, typically dominated by peppermint eucalypts (subgenus Monocalyptus series Piperitae) more than 5 meters in height, with a scattered layer of small xerophytic species, such as Acacia, Allocasuarina, and Exocarpos spp. in the understory Eucalyptus amygalina, E. pulchella, and E. viminalis are all found in this ecoregion.

    Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

  • I noticed that Hubricht didn't show records in Franklin County for Deroceras laeve (=Limax campestris), Strobilops labyrinthica (=Strobila labyrinthica), Carychium exiguum, Vallonia pulchella, Philomycus caroliniensis (=Tebennophorus carolinensis), Gastrocopta armifera (=Pupa armifera), G. contracta and G. corticaria that Moore and Butler recorded.

    Bulletin of the Brookville Society of Natural History AYDIN 2007

  • Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:

    Greenery 2007

  • Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:

    Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda 2007

  • I noticed that Hubricht didn't show records in Franklin County for Deroceras laeve (=Limax campestris), Strobilops labyrinthica (=Strobila labyrinthica), Carychium exiguum, Vallonia pulchella, Philomycus caroliniensis (=Tebennophorus carolinensis), Gastrocopta armifera (=Pupa armifera), G. contracta and G. corticaria that Moore and Butler recorded.

    Archive 2007-03-01 AYDIN 2007

  • This little guy struggling to regain its footing on my fingertips is a Truncatella pulchella.

    Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

  • (_Agrostemma Githago_), the Sweet William (_Silene Armeria_), and many garden flowers, as for instance, the _Clarkia pulchella_, the

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

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