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Gooseberry – Plants & Trees Encyclopedia for Kids: The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R. grossularia) is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia; for the other related species (e.g. North American Gooseberry Ribes hirtellum). Although usually placed as a subgenus within Ribes, a few taxonomists …

Kingdom: Animalia Family: Diomedeidae Order: Procellariiformes Class: Aves Albatross — Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains show they once occurred there too and …

Chinese Lantern Plant — Physalis alkekengi (Bladder-cherry, Chinese Lantern, Japanese-lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns. It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing …

Chinese Parasol Tree — Chinese parasol tree is an ornamental plant or tree of the cacao, or chocolate, of the family Sterculiaceae of the order Malvales, native to Asia. It grows to a height of 12 m (40 feet). It has alternate, deciduous leaves up to 30 cm (12 inches) across and small greenish white flowers that are borne in …

ऊंट का वंशज माना जाने वाला ‘गुआनको’ एक पर्वतीय जानवर है, जो ऊंचे पर्वतो पर पाया जाता है। पश्चिमी तट में पाया जाने वाला यह जानवर दक्षिण अमेरिका में समुद्र तल से करीब चार हजार मीटर की ऊंचाई पर निवास करता है। प्रायः काले रंग के चेहरे तथा भूरे व पीले रंग में पाये जाने वाले गुआनको की चमड़ी मोटी …

Yak — The yak (Bos grunniens, but also Poephagus grunniens, though this new name is not universally accepted) is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population. In Tibetan, the word yak …

हिरणो की यूँ तो दुनिया भर में कई प्रजातियां मिल जाती हैं किन्तु ‘कर्दम हिरण‘ सिर्फ भारत में ही पाये जाते हैं। अलग – अलग क्षेत्रों में पाये जाने वाले कर्दम कर्दम हिरणों के सींगो की बनावट अलग-अलग तरह की होती है। सामान्यत: एक कर्दम हिरण के सींगो में 10 से 14 तक शाखाएं निकली होती हैँ किन्तु किसी-किसी कर्दम …

Nebraska lies immediately to the north of the geographic center of the conterminous United States, bounded on the north by South Dakota, on the west by Colorado and Wyoming, on the south by Kansas, and on the east by Iowa and Missouri. The extreme length of the state from south to north is 330 km (205 mi), and its extreme …

Montana, one of the Mountain states, ranks fourth in size but is among the ten least populous of all the U.S. states. Bordering it are the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan on the north; North Dakota and South Dakota on the east; Wyoming on the south; and Idaho on the west and southwest. Montana stretches for about …

Missouri is a midwestern state of the United States, located near the country’s geographic center at the confluence of the two longest rivers in the United States–the Mississippi and the Missouri. Situated where North meets South and where the industrial East gives way to the plains of the West, Missouri exhibits characteristics of all these areas. It is bordered on …