With time, Lakhi’s age caught up with her, and she showed signs of slowing down, old injuries got inflamed and she seemed to prefer resting against the mud beds in her enclosure
With time, Lakhi’s age caught up with her, and she showed signs of slowing down, old injuries got inflamed and she seemed to prefer resting against the mud beds in her enclosure. Late Saturday evening on the 3rd of March, she seemed more weary than usual, and even as her knees buckled under her, Asha and Coco rushed to her side to support her. Asha appeared calm and strong, as if she knew in her own way that this was it – Coco panicked initially, rushing about and running circles around her fallen friend. The team rushed in, the crane was called in to lift her back to her feet and support her – the elephants moved aside and watched, Asha touching them gently as they huddled together. They stood back as the team tried to get her back to her feet, even the younger elephants seemed uncharacteristically calm. Maybe they knew, maybe they realised it was time to let go and had their chance to say their goodbyes, and wanted to let her pass in peace. Lakhi resisted being lifted, as if she too knew her time had come. She let out her final breath and slumped down against the mud bed, eyes shut looking like she was completely at peace. As the team moved away, heartbroken, Asha rumbled loudly from where she was standing, but none of the elephants moved – Coco let out a small wail, and from every enclosure elephants responded softly with rumbles, trumpets and huffs all the way from the bulls to the closerby females like Phoolkali like an orchestra of calm, reassuring solidarity for their fallen friend.
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Custard Apple Botanically known as Annona squamosa from Annonaceae family. Common name are Sitaphal, Sugar apple red, Sweetsop. It is a small many branched semi-evergreen tree.
This Balanagar variety of custard apple is most adaptable variety and yielding of this variety is too high when compared to other custard apple. The fruit is medium size and green in color with sweet in taste. It can be planted in any corner of the garden and requires less water and does best in dry climates.
This tree should only be planted outdoors in frost-free areas protected from cold winds. It is best grown in rich, evenly moist but well-drained soils in full sun to semi-shade.
Algumas pesquisas indicaram o crescente número de consumidores adeptos da graviola, que a consomem deliberadamente acreditando em um "poder curativo" de algumas doenças como o câncer e o Mal de Parkinson. Esse frisson deve-se ao fato de muitos experimentos terem sido realizados in vitro e in vivo em animais cobaias, sem a total comprovação dos efeitos da substância anonacina neles. Em humanos esses experimentos nunca foram realizados, ao menos não oficialmente. Outro uso que alimenta a economia e o comércio é a elaboração de medicamentos utilizados na medicina popular, com ação antifúngica, antimalárica e citostática.
Annonaceae is the Custard Apple family.
It has over 100 genera with over 2,000 species.
Most are evergreen or deciduous trees with some shrubs. Young shoots are often zigzag.
Leaves, on short stalks, are in 2 ranks, with a simple blade that is pinnately veined.
The usually solitary flowers appear to be axillary or leaf opposed but, due to the way the
shoots grow are probably terminal.
Flowers can also arise from the trunk which is known as cauliflory.
Some species have bracts at the base of the stalk.
The receptacle (the top of the stalk holding the flower parts) may be enlarged, elevated or flat and there is a
disk (a disc-like structure at the base of the ovary formed from the receptacle or stamens).
The usually pendulous flowers have a thick, fleshy perianth composed of tepals
(undifferentiated sepals and petals) or with distinct sepals and petals.
The perianth is usually in 3 whorls of 3 but can be 1 or 2 whorls.
There are up to 100 or more short stamens with the outer ones maturing first.
They are typically spirally arranged.
The anthers open via a longitudinal slit or valve that is directed outwards.
There is an anther appendage and sometimes staminodes (infertile stamens).
The superior ovary can have 10 to 100 or more carpels each with 1-10 ovules.
The carpels are usually separate and spirally arranged.
Each has a short, thick style and a papillate stigma.
To prevent self pollination all (or most of) the flowers are in the staminate phase in the morning and
the pistillate stage later in the day or the next morning.
The fruit is fleshy with quite large seeds.
Several genera produce edible fruit such as Annona and Uvaria.
Members of the family Annonaceae have simple leaves with smooth margins that are alternately arranged in two rows along the stems. The radially symmetrical flowers are usually bisexual. In most species the three sepals are united at the base. There are six brown, yellow, or greenish petals, many stamens in a spiral, and many pistils, each with a one-chambered ovary containing many ovules. The fruit is a berry. Flowers in some species are borne directly on large branches or on the trunk (cauliflorous). The leaves and wood are often fragrant.
The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas[3] commonly known as the custard apple family[4][3] or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species,[5] it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably Annona, Anonidium, Asimina, Rollinia, and Uvaria. Its type genus is Annona. The family is concentrated in the tropics, with few species found in temperate regions. About 900 species are Neotropical, 450 are Afrotropical, and the remaining are Indomalayan.
The Everglades National Park comprises several significant habitats such as extensive mangrove forests, freshwater sloughs, saltwater marshes, tropical hardwood hammocks, cypress, and pine woodlands, open sawgrass prairies, marl prairies, wet prairies, islands of Florida Bay, and seagrass ecosystems. This vast network of wetlands and forests that make up the fragile ecosystem of the National park is fed by a very shallow, slow-moving river water from Lake Okeechobee. The Park also features the largest contiguous stand of protected mangrove ecosystem in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The mosaic of important habitats that are found within the Everglades National Park supports a rich assemblage of flora and fauna that are unique to the region and are found nowhere else on Earth. Due to its location at the interface of the temperate region of North America and the tropical region of the Caribbean, the Everglades National Park hosts floral species from both the biomes. The park serves as an important habitat for a wide variety of floral species like wildflowers, broad-leafed aquatic plants, muhly grass, succulents, various scrub bushes like saw palmetto, poisonwood, wild coffee, and white indigo berry; trees such as southern live oaks, gumbo-limbo, wild tamarind, slash pines, and conifers; and epiphytes like bromeliads, orchids, ferns, and Spanish moss. Mangroves like red mangroves, black mangroves, and white mangroves are found in the Everglades National Park.
The Everglades National Park is home to a large number of faunal species. Various insects and other invertebrate animals like crustaceans, mollusks (little tree snail), spiders, centipedes, and millipedes are found here. The park provides an ideal habitat for several amphibian species like the American green tree frog and southern leopard frog. Several reptilian species like the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, eastern indigo snake, green anole, water moccasin, American alligator, American crocodile, and the endangered Atlantic green sea turtle, hawksbill turtle, Atlantic ridley turtle, Atlantic loggerhead turtle, and leatherback sea turtle are found here.
Over 300 species of fish are found in the freshwater marshes and the marine coastline of the Everglades National Park. Some of the important fish include redfish, bonefish, spotted seatrout, blue tilapia, snook, tarpon, northern red snapper, and bass.
Custard Apple Botanically known as Annona squamosa from Annonaceae family. Common name are Sitaphal, Sugar apple red, Sweetsop. It is a small many branched semi-evergreen tree.
This Balanagar variety of custard apple is most adaptable variety and yielding of this variety is too high when compared to other custard apple. The fruit is medium size and green in color with sweet in taste. It can be planted in any corner of the garden and requires less water and does best in dry climates.
This tree should only be planted outdoors in frost-free areas protected from cold winds. It is best grown in rich, evenly moist but well-drained soils in full sun to semi-shade.
Algumas pesquisas indicaram o crescente número de consumidores adeptos da graviola, que a consomem deliberadamente acreditando em um "poder curativo" de algumas doenças como o câncer e o Mal de Parkinson. Esse frisson deve-se ao fato de muitos experimentos terem sido realizados in vitro e in vivo em animais cobaias, sem a total comprovação dos efeitos da substância anonacina neles. Em humanos esses experimentos nunca foram realizados, ao menos não oficialmente. Outro uso que alimenta a economia e o comércio é a elaboração de medicamentos utilizados na medicina popular, com ação antifúngica, antimalárica e citostática.
Annonaceae is the Custard Apple family.
It has over 100 genera with over 2,000 species.
Most are evergreen or deciduous trees with some shrubs. Young shoots are often zigzag.
Leaves, on short stalks, are in 2 ranks, with a simple blade that is pinnately veined.
The usually solitary flowers appear to be axillary or leaf opposed but, due to the way the
shoots grow are probably terminal.
Flowers can also arise from the trunk which is known as cauliflory.
Some species have bracts at the base of the stalk.
The receptacle (the top of the stalk holding the flower parts) may be enlarged, elevated or flat and there is a
disk (a disc-like structure at the base of the ovary formed from the receptacle or stamens).
The usually pendulous flowers have a thick, fleshy perianth composed of tepals
(undifferentiated sepals and petals) or with distinct sepals and petals.
The perianth is usually in 3 whorls of 3 but can be 1 or 2 whorls.
There are up to 100 or more short stamens with the outer ones maturing first.
They are typically spirally arranged.
The anthers open via a longitudinal slit or valve that is directed outwards.
There is an anther appendage and sometimes staminodes (infertile stamens).
The superior ovary can have 10 to 100 or more carpels each with 1-10 ovules.
The carpels are usually separate and spirally arranged.
Each has a short, thick style and a papillate stigma.
To prevent self pollination all (or most of) the flowers are in the staminate phase in the morning and
the pistillate stage later in the day or the next morning.
The fruit is fleshy with quite large seeds.
Several genera produce edible fruit such as Annona and Uvaria.
Members of the family Annonaceae have simple leaves with smooth margins that are alternately arranged in two rows along the stems. The radially symmetrical flowers are usually bisexual. In most species the three sepals are united at the base. There are six brown, yellow, or greenish petals, many stamens in a spiral, and many pistils, each with a one-chambered ovary containing many ovules. The fruit is a berry. Flowers in some species are borne directly on large branches or on the trunk (cauliflorous). The leaves and wood are often fragrant.
The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas[3] commonly known as the custard apple family[4][3] or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species,[5] it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably Annona, Anonidium, Asimina, Rollinia, and Uvaria. Its type genus is Annona. The family is concentrated in the tropics, with few species found in temperate regions. About 900 species are Neotropical, 450 are Afrotropical, and the remaining are Indomalayan.
The Everglades National Park comprises several significant habitats such as extensive mangrove forests, freshwater sloughs, saltwater marshes, tropical hardwood hammocks, cypress, and pine woodlands, open sawgrass prairies, marl prairies, wet prairies, islands of Florida Bay, and seagrass ecosystems. This vast network of wetlands and forests that make up the fragile ecosystem of the National park is fed by a very shallow, slow-moving river water from Lake Okeechobee. The Park also features the largest contiguous stand of protected mangrove ecosystem in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The mosaic of important habitats that are found within the Everglades National Park supports a rich assemblage of flora and fauna that are unique to the region and are found nowhere else on Earth. Due to its location at the interface of the temperate region of North America and the tropical region of the Caribbean, the Everglades National Park hosts floral species from both the biomes. The park serves as an important habitat for a wide variety of floral species like wildflowers, broad-leafed aquatic plants, muhly grass, succulents, various scrub bushes like saw palmetto, poisonwood, wild coffee, and white indigo berry; trees such as southern live oaks, gumbo-limbo, wild tamarind, slash pines, and conifers; and epiphytes like bromeliads, orchids, ferns, and Spanish moss. Mangroves like red mangroves, black mangroves, and white mangroves are found in the Everglades National Park.
The Everglades National Park is home to a large number of faunal species. Various insects and other invertebrate animals like crustaceans, mollusks (little tree snail), spiders, centipedes, and millipedes are found here. The park provides an ideal habitat for several amphibian species like the American green tree frog and southern leopard frog. Several reptilian species like the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, eastern indigo snake, green anole, water moccasin, American alligator, American crocodile, and the endangered Atlantic green sea turtle, hawksbill turtle, Atlantic ridley turtle, Atlantic loggerhead turtle, and leatherback sea turtle are found here.
Over 300 species of fish are found in the freshwater marshes and the marine coastline of the Everglades National Park. Some of the important fish include redfish, bonefish, spotted seatrout, blue tilapia, snook, tarpon, northern red snapper, and bass.
