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Window in the mountains
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á or í
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Where you can see the sea from the mountains
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Tejka
Resting
English wine shop
A hut only... really?
I think, that...
Friendly or not?
Let's find a place to sleep in a desert
Let's build the base, cook, and sleep
Four Doors in Jaipur
Belas Knap Long Barrow
A Witch is taking you...
Little duckling and its adult role-models
Scene from the Calfclose Bay
The Red Post Box
...another beautiful morning seen from my kitchen
the Fen
A water story
A folly
Horses at 'my' Tor
Youngest castle in England
Typical scene from an Assamese town
Friday Mosque
Green markets of Assam
Kutaisi - mystery cathedral
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, designed by renowned Americ…
Bangladesh Parliament Building - South Plaza
Mom and aunt Iva
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Find the lizard
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Split
A drummer boy
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Stara maslina
1500 y.o.olive tree in Kaštel Štafilić, Croatia
A church built by two brothers
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South Velebit - view from Posedarje
Velebit - view from Stap (860m)
Velebit [panorama]
On a river
Let's drink on a river
Parking of a boat
Were the god comes to work
Coal and wind power... and a combustion engine
Low profile
Buy me a moped! Buy me a lolly!
Crkva
Sad old house
Goodbye Brčko!
Rain
Urban Mosque
Mosque girls
Tough Match
Street Chess
Sarajevo
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Orthodox
Orthodox
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Playing 'Desaparecido' in Kino Bosna
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Catholic Sarajevo
Minaret & Church Tower
Mosque & Church
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Big wine full of kiwi fruit
Fig tree
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Olives
Ever seen pommegranate growing on a tree
Kravice
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Water impressions
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Water impressions II
Water impressions III
Water impressions IV
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Crow's eye plant
A model of perfect plant symmetry, the four-leaved true lover's knot, in Slovak and Czech known under a popular name crow's eye, inhabits moist shady places, especially in deciduous forests. The plant catches the eye with its delicate, unusually symmetrical yellow-green flowers, which reign over a quartet of broad leaves placed at the top of the stem.
Paris quadrifolia, the herb-paris or true lover's knot, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in temperate and cool areas throughout Eurasia, from Spain to Yakutia, and from Iceland to Mongolia. The plant flowers during the months of June and July. It has a solitary flower with four narrow greenish filiform (threadlike) petals, four green petaloid sepals, eight golden yellow stamens, and a round purple to red ovary. The flower is borne above a single whorl of four leaves. Each plant produces at most one blueberry-like berry, which is poisonous, as are other plant tissues.
Poisonings are rare because the plant's solitary berry has a repulsive taste that makes it difficult to mistake for a bilberry. In such cases, narrow pupils, diarrhea, irritation of the kidneys are typical. The main poisonous substances of the plant are the saponins paridin and paristyphnine - violent poisons that are poorly absorbed in the digestive system.
The medical uses of true lover's knot are already mentioned by the Italian botanist Matthioli in his commentaries on De Materia Medica, a 5-volume work on Dioscorides, a treatise on plants and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The plant is also mentioned in the work of the English botanist and healer John Gerard as an antidote for arsenic and mercury poisoning. This plant has also been used in the past as an anti-inflammatory (e.g. for inflamed wounds) and for headaches. It is now part of many homeopathic remedies.
Paris quadrifolia, the herb-paris or true lover's knot, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in temperate and cool areas throughout Eurasia, from Spain to Yakutia, and from Iceland to Mongolia. The plant flowers during the months of June and July. It has a solitary flower with four narrow greenish filiform (threadlike) petals, four green petaloid sepals, eight golden yellow stamens, and a round purple to red ovary. The flower is borne above a single whorl of four leaves. Each plant produces at most one blueberry-like berry, which is poisonous, as are other plant tissues.
Poisonings are rare because the plant's solitary berry has a repulsive taste that makes it difficult to mistake for a bilberry. In such cases, narrow pupils, diarrhea, irritation of the kidneys are typical. The main poisonous substances of the plant are the saponins paridin and paristyphnine - violent poisons that are poorly absorbed in the digestive system.
The medical uses of true lover's knot are already mentioned by the Italian botanist Matthioli in his commentaries on De Materia Medica, a 5-volume work on Dioscorides, a treatise on plants and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The plant is also mentioned in the work of the English botanist and healer John Gerard as an antidote for arsenic and mercury poisoning. This plant has also been used in the past as an anti-inflammatory (e.g. for inflamed wounds) and for headaches. It is now part of many homeopathic remedies.
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