• Common name : Baybean • Scientific name : CanavaliaRosea • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : Coastal areas of Australia, West Africa It is a perennial herb with a trailing or climbing stem growing 2-10 metres long and becoming somewhat woody with age. Blooming takes place with the greatest intensity between May and […]
Once, there lived a greedy hippo. He ate the food of all the animals. One day, after eating his breakfast, the hippo went to have a bath. He carried his swimming tube with him. But the hippo was fat, so he got stuck in the tube. He began to shout, “Help! Help! Please pull me
• Common name : Basil/Tulsi • Scientific name : Ocimumbasilicum • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Africa and Asia (India, China, South-East Asia, and New Guinea) It is an annual herb. In India, basil is believed to be imbued with divine essence. A number of varieties exist today, ranging from tiny-leafed Greek basil
Fossils tell us what types of organisms lived millions of years ago. They give us an idea of early man, too. The study of fossils is known as ‘palaeontology’. There are three types of fossils: • It could be an organism’s actual preserved body, appearing like it originally looked.• It could be only the outer
• Common name : Winter Rocket • Scientific name : Barbarea vulgaris • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Eurasia, North America They are small herbaceous biennial or perennial plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals. The stem is ribbed and hairless, branched at the base. The fruit
• Common name : Land Cress • Scientific name : Barbareaverna • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : South-Western Europe and Florida This is a biennial plant. The plant grows up to 1 feet tall. The basal leaves are dark green, shiny and deeply lobed with a tall yellow flower spike in spring. It
Gabriel and his wife, Clara, lived near a forest. It was Christmas Eve, but they both were sad. They knew that like every year, the trolls would come at night and throw them out. That evening, a hungry Great White Bear knocked at their door and asked for some food. Kind Gabriel offered him a
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• Common name : Common Bamboo • Scientific name : Bambusa vulgaris • Family : Poaceae • Native land : East Asia, Eastern and Southern India and the Himalayas, Northern Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, Argentina and Chile Bamboos are the flowering perennial evergreen plants. They are some of the fastest-growing plants in the world. Certain species
A fog is a kind of cloud, which is found close to the ground or sea surface instead of sky. It is formed when cold air comes in contact with the warm surface of water or land. It is mostly formed at night or in the early morning over small water bodies or lowlands. During
• Common name : Water Hyssop/Brahmi • Scientific name : Bacopamonnieri • Family : Plantaginaceae • Native land : Wetlands of Southern India, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America It is a perennial, creeping herb. The leaves of this plant are succulent, oblong and 4-6 millimetres thick. The leaves are oblanceolate and
Once upon a time, there was a small beautiful bird with colourful feathers. The bird lived in a big palace with a dwarf. The dwarf kept the bird in a cage and was cruel to her. But the bird still loved him. One morning, the dwarf was nowhere to be seen. The bird was worried.
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• Common name : Cornflower • Scientific name : Centaureacyanus • Family : Asteraceae • Native land : Europe, North America and parts of Australia It is an annual flowering plant. The plant blooms from late spring to summer. It grows up to 3 feet tall. Most plants grow roughly 1 to 3 feet tall
• Common name : Mosquito Fern • Scientific name : Azollacaroliniana • Family : Salviniaceae • Native land : North, Central and South America It is an annual floating fern and resembles algae. Normally, azolla is grown in paddy fields or shallow water bodies. It multiplies very rapidly. The plants can be dark green, dark
• Common name : Rosebay • Scientific name : Rhododendrons azalea • Family : Ericaceae • Native land : South-Eastern Asia, North- Western Himalayas, Tibet and Western and Central China extending south and east to Malaysia and the Philippines It is the national flower of Nepal. It is an evergreen, shrub-type plant with bell-shaped flowers.
Rosy was a baby elephant who lived in A lot of visitors came to see Rosy. They watched her in amazement as she could eat a dozen bananas in one go. But she was sad and missed the company of other elephants. One day, the zookeeper forgot to lock the door of Rosy’s cage. In
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