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Time for my next Nokiagraphy. I hope you'll enjoy seeing them.

The largest rose bloom ever bred was a pink rose measuring approximately 33 inches in diameter, bred by Nikita K. Rulhoksoffski from San Onofre, California.

The largest living rose is in Tombstone, Arizona. When it is in bloom it has over 200,000 blossoms, and is supported by an arbour under which people can sit. It is a white Rosa banksiae.

The longest living rose is believed to be over a thousand years old and grows on the wall of Hildesheim in Germany. Its presence has been documented since 815 A.D. It is a wild dog rose, or Rosa canina. More rose trivia here.

Saribus rotundifolius, round-leaf fountain palm, is a palm found in Southeast Asia. It is a member of the genus Saribus. It is also called footstool palm (English) and as Anáhaw or Luyong (Filipino). The foliage of the Saribus rotundifolius is the unofficial national leaf of the Philippines. Wiki

Bee trivia.

Bees:

can fly around 15 mph
can fly 55,000 miles to bring us 1 pound of honey
can their wings 11,400 per minute
must go to two million flowers to gather l pound of honey
can see the same colors we see except red. They can also see ultraviolet

During her life (approximately 40 days) a honey bee will gather about 1/12 teaspoon of honey.

Honey bees that collect nectar from flowers are called foragers and visit 50-100 flowers on one flight.

The bees gather 10 pounds of nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

A foraging honey bee can carry 80% of their weight in pollen or nectar.

Honey bees make up 80% of all pollinators.

Honey bees use several dances in the hive to communicate the location of nectar and water to other bees. One well known dance is called the waggle dance.

Honey bee pollination has a agricultural value of 15 billion dollars a year in the US.

The queen honey bee lays between 1,000-3,000 eggs per day.

There is only 1 queen per colony. More than one queen will fight and only one will survive.

A queen mates with nearly 20 drones and only mates once in her life time.

The drone (the male honey bee) does not have a stinger.

Bees wax begins to melt at 148 degrees.

Bees wax is produced from the wax glands in honey bees.

Propolis is made from sticky plant and tree resin and is used by the bees as a glue and an anti-bacteria substance in the hive.

A honey bee lives approximately 40 days in the summer and 4-9 months in the winter. source

Butterfly trivia.

Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour.
Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about
2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about
140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months. source

Water Hyacinth

The Water Hyacinth is considered to be one of the worst aquatic plants in the world
The Water Hyacinth is the only large aquatic herb that can float on the water without being attached to the bottom
What allows the Water Hyacinth to float on water are air bubbles trapped by the roots and air spaces in the leaf stalks
The Water Hyacinth is commonly called the fastest growing plant in the world
The mats that the Water Hyacinth creates can grow up to 6 feet (2 meters) thick. source

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