flower

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Each generation of banana plants had to grow for at least 12 months before researchers could test them for disease resistance and continue breeding once they flowered.

From Science Daily

“I was at his memorial. I didn’t spit on his grave. I put a flower on it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Later this month, the world premiere of Kurtag's second opera "Die Stechardin" about the 18th-century love story of a German polymath and a flower girl will cap the centenary of his birth.

From Barron's

"Spring flowers, tailoring and embroidery," reads a sign outside Alavi's small store, which opened in January after a months-long search for work.

From Barron's

Floating like a flower petal in the spring breeze.

From Salon