Saturday, November 27, 2010

flowersandtrees

month ago

The truth of this cartoon is that Walt fisney dont do it, The drawer and the person that imagine all that was Ub Iwerks. There are rumors that also, Ub invent mickey mouse, not Disney. But who knows? :D . They were both excellent artists. If they could see the cartoons and shows of now... They will be very sad :c

airam519 1 month ago

trwetwetwet

1 month ago

the maker of this cartoon has imaginative faculty,this story is funny and attractive

flowers and rrees

exmortis999

2 days ago

wow... im astounded by that mans creation. this is what i searched.. "Disney became fixated on using the newest technology for his films. He obtained exclusive rights to use Technicolor in animated films for two years, winning his first Academy Award in 1932 for the animated short Flowers and Trees, which was also the first full-color cartoon

Flowers and Trees

drawer and the person that imagine all that was Ub Iwerks. There are rumors that also, Ub invent mickey mouse, not Disney. But who knows? :D . They were both excellent artists. If they could see the cartoons and shows of now... They will be very sad :

User Reviews

The first Silly Symphony to to be made in Technicolour, Flowers and Trees remains my favourite of the Silly Symphonies. It has a certain charm that is almost irresistible. Flowers and Trees is beautifully animated, with vibrant colours, and considering when it was made, I was most impressed. The characters, although they never speak, are very lovable, especially the Mushrooms. Even the evil tree stump was an engaging character in his own right. The music was wonderfully lyrical, and reminded me of the sort of music you'll find in a ballet. It was so charming and pleasant, it plays a significant role in justifying the undeniable charm of this gem. The story is very simple, and is fairly unrealistic, but everything else that is so good, more than compensate, and it is meant to be silly. The result is a beautiful and imaginative short, with a 10/10. Bethany Cox.

Storyline

It's spring, and the flowers, mushrooms, and trees do their calisthentics. Some trees play a tune, using vines for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A nasty looking hollow tree does battle with a much healthier looking tree for the attentions of a female tree, and starts a fire in the process. Written by Jon Reeves

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The origins of flowers

Flowers are such a ubiquitous and familiar part of our modern world that it is easy to take them for granted. But as Darwin recognized, the exquisite details of their structure and appearance have been shaped by evolutionary processes over millions of years. This lecture will explore current ideas on the evolution of flowers based on new information from living plants as well recent discoveries in the fossil record. Questions that are currently a focus of active research and that will be addressed in the lecture include: Where did flowers come from? What were the earliest flowers like? What have been the major innovations in flower evolution over the past 100 million years? And, returning to a question of great interest to Darwin, how has the evolution of flowers and their pollinators been linked across evolutionary time?
Sir Peter Crane is the former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and is currently a Professor at the University of Chicago. His research interests involve the integration of studies of living and fossil plants, in order to understand large-scale patterns and processes of plant evolution.

Did the Project make trees

quality monitoring throughout the project. During dry weather monitoring, enrolled nurseries had higher water quality improvements than non-enrolled nurseries.
This project provided valuable data to the State and Regional Water Boards, fully characteristizing pollutant loading from nurseries in Orange County. The data also showed increases in pesticide levels during storm events from 2007-2009, which informs the Water Boards on the expanding use of these pollutants.
Looking Forward: Our data has shown high levels of pollutants discharged from nursery operations, while at the same time these nurseries are exempt from water quality regulations. Coastkeeper will continue to demand stronger stateconsultation were still in use.
wide standards to improve the water quality of agricultural runoff. We hope that BMP program will serve as a model for future oureach projects to nurseries across the state

Water Quality Monitoring

Water Quality Monitoring: From 2007-2009, Coastkeeper conducted two seasons of dry and wet season monitoring of wholesale nursery runoff. Water quality monitoring initially began with 112 wholesale nursery locations operated by 91 nurseries, however by the end of the project three nurseries closed, Nursery Water Quality Improvement Projec

The Result? Most parameters exceeded their project action limits throughout the project (based on Basin Plan standards or EPA guidelines). Dry season monitoring of enrolled nurseries saw reductions in the following pollutant concentration: TSS, ammonia-nitrogen, orthophosphate, E. coli bacteria, and pesticide chlorphyrifos. During wet season monitoring, both enrolled and non-enrolled nurseries saw reductions in ammonia and nitrate loads, and increases in pesticides malathion, bifenthrin, and permethrin as well as total coliform and enterococcus bacte

Nurseries Water Quality

Nursery Water Quality Improvement Project

The Problem: Through Coastkeeper’s research, agricultural runoff from nurseries was identified as a contributor to poor water quality in Orange County streams, with the highest unit loading of pollutants in runoff per acre. Rrunoff from wholesale nurseries contains high levels of sediment, nutrients, pesticides and bacteria that have an adverse effect on the receiving waters. These pollutant discharges can be reduced or eliminated with the use of Best Management Practices (BMPs). Unfortunately, missing or poorly implemented BMPs commonly result in over-watering, improper storage, overuse of fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, and/

State Tree and Flower

Each of the 50 states and several United States territories have designated an official tree and flower. Many of the state flowers are actually trees as well -- some states have chosen the same species as state tree and as state flower. All of the state trees, except the Hawaii state tree, are native to the state in which they are designated. Many of the state flowers are from other parts of the world and were chosen because of their beauty or importance, not because they represent the natural flora of the state they represent. Some states have designated a state wildflower, as a symbolic native species.
The Latin names you see here may be different from those you may have seen before due to changes in plant nomenclature; we have chosen to list the current valid botanical name. Where more than one accepted common name exists, the common name in the legislation has been listed.
Here's a quiz question for you: One state lists a state flower that is not a flower at all. Do you know which state that is? Scroll to the bottom for the answer

Garden Asparagus

Garden Asparagus is an herbaceous perennial and is well known for its edible young shoots. Garden Asparagus is known to have more than 250 species all over the world. The delicate flavour of Asparagus make it favourite among the vegetable lovers.
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Trees in India

Trees in India known for their grandeur and majesty are like the green pearl in the Indian crown. Trees occupy the important place in the history of India. Trees have always been associated with wisdom and immorality in India. Hindu literature describes a celestial tree as having its roots in the heaven and its branches in the underworld that unites and connects beings of every kind. Banyan is the National Tree of India. India's medicinal are no less diverse. Peepal, banyan (Bodhi tree), banana, and Tulsi are some of the plants that holds special cultural and religious significance in India. Indian Rosewood, Kikar, Aleo Vera, Ashwagandha, Cork, Brahmi, Sal, Khair and Garden Asparagus are some of the popular trees grown in India.

Banyan Tree

Banyan is the National Tree of India. It has the widest reaching roots of all known trees, easily covering several hectares. It is said that at one time more than 10, 000 people can sit under its shade at one time.
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Peepal Tree

Trees of India - Flowers of India

Common name: Grey Mangrove, White mangrove • Gujarati: tavarian • Kannada: Ipati • Malayalam: ഒറയി Orayi • Marathi: तवीर Tavir, तिवर Tivar • Tamil: Kanna • Telugu: తెల్ల మడ Tella mada
Botanical name: Avicennia marina Family: Acanthaceae (Ruellia family)
Synonyms: Sceura marina

flowers trees

The series was first distributed by Pat Powers from 1929 to 1930 and released by Celebrity Productions (1929–1930) indirectly through Columbia Pictures. The original basis of the cartoons was musical novelty, and the musical scores of the first cartoons were composed by Carl Stalling.^[1] After viewing "The Skeleton Dance", the management at Columbia Pictures quickly became interested in directly distributing the series, and gained the perfect opportunity to acquire Silly Symphonies after Disney broke with Celebrity Productions head Pat Powers after Powers signed Disney's colleague Ub Iwerks to a studio contract. Columbia Pictures (1930–1932) agreed to pick up the direct distribution of the Mickey Mouse series on the condition that they would have exclusive rights to distribute the Silly Symphonies series; at first, Silly Symphonies could not even come close to the popularity Mickey Mouse had. The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. Meanwhile, more competition spread for Disney after Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character Betty Boop began to gain more and more popularity after starring in the cartoon Minnie the Moocher; by August 1932, Betty Boop even became so popular, that the Talkartoon series was renamed as Betty Boop cartoons. In 1932, after falling out with Columb

ia Pictures, Disney began distributing his products through United Artists. UA

Friday, November 26, 2010

Oldest trees

The oldest trees are determined by growth rings, which can be seen if the tree is cut down, or in cores taken from the bark to the center of the tree. Accurate determination is only possible for trees that produce growth rings, generally those in seasonal climates. Trees in uniform non-seasonal tropical climates grow continuously and do not have distinct growth rings. It is also only possible for trees that are solid to the center. Many very old trees become hollow as the dead heartwood decays. For some of these species, age estimates have been made on the basis of extrapolating current growth rates, but the results are usually largely speculation. White (1998)^[27] proposes a method of estimating the age of large and veteran trees in the United Kingdom through the correlation between a tree's stem diameter, growth character and age.
The verified oldest measured ages are:

Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Methuselah) Pinus longaeva: 4,844 years^[28]
Alerce Fitzroya cupressoides: 3,622 years^[28]
Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum: 3,266 years^[28]
Sugi Cryptomeria japonica: 3,000 years^[29]
Huon-pine Lagarostrobos franklinii: 2,500 years^[28

Classification

A Sweet Chestnut tree in Ticino, Switzerland

A tree is a plant form that occurs in many different orders and families of plants. Trees show a variety of growth forms, leaf type and shape, bark characteristics and reproductive organs.
The tree form has evolved separately in unrelated classes of plants, in response to similar environmental challenges, making it a classic example of parallel evolution. With an estimate of 100,000 tree species, the number of tree species worldwide might total 25 percent of all living plant species.^[7] The majority of tree species grow in tropical regions of the world and many of these areas have not been surveyed yet by botanists, making species diversity and ranges poorly understood.^[8]

Tropical tree in Campeche, Mexico

The earliest trees were tree ferns, horsetails and lycophytes, which grew in forests in the Carboniferous period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails and lycophytes are not of tree form. Later, in the Triassic period, conifers, ginkgos, cycads and other gymnosperms appeared, and subsequently flowering plants in the Cretaceous period. Most species of trees today are flowering plants (Angiosperms) and conifers. For the listing of examples of well-known trees and how they are classified, see List of tree genera.
A small group of trees growing together is called a grove or copse, and a landscape covered by a dense growth of trees is called a forest. Several biotopes are defined largely by the trees that inhabit them; examples are rainforest and taiga (see ecozones). A landscape of trees scattered or spaced across grassland (usually grazed or burned over periodically) is called a savanna. A forest of great age is called old growth forest or ancient woodland (in the UK). A young tree is called a sapling

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For other uses, see Tree (disambiguation).

Trees on a mountain in northern Utah during early autumn

Trunk base of a Coast Redwood tree in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park: Simpson Reed Discovery Trail, near Crescent City, California

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance.^[1] A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m^[2] to 6 m;^[3] some authors set a minimum of 10 cm trunk diameter (30 cm girth).^[4] Woody plants that do not meet these definitions by having multiple stems and/or small size are called shrubs. Compared with most other plants, trees are long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old and growing to up to 115 m (379 ft) high.^[5]

Tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

El Grande, about 280 feet high, the most massive (though not the tallest) Eucalyptus regnans was accidentally killed by loggers burning-off the remains of legally loggable trees (less than 280 ft) that had been felled all around it.

The two sources of tree damage are either biotic (from living sources) or abiotic (from non-living sources). Biotic sources include insects that bore into the tree, deer that rub bark off, and fungi.^[32]
Abiotic sources include lightning, vehicles impacts, and construction activities. Construction activities can involve a number of damage sources, including grade changes that prevent aeration to roots, spills involving toxic chemicals such as cement or petroleum products, or severing of branches or roots.
Both damage sources can result in trees becoming dangerous, and the term "hazard trees" is commonly used by arborists, and industry groups such as power line operators. Hazard trees are trees that, due to disease or other factors, are more susceptible to falling in windstorms, or having parts of the tree fall.
Evaluating the danger a tree presents is based on a process called the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment.^[33]
Assessment as to labeling a tree a hazard tree can be based on a field examination. Assessment as a result of construction activities that will damage a tree is based on three factors: severity, extent and duration. Severity relates usually to the degree of intrusion into the TPZ and resultant root loss. Extent is frequently a percentage of a factor such as canopy, roots or bark, and duration is normally based on time. Root severing is considered permanent in time.