Sago palms are harvested at the age of 7 – 15 years, just before flowering, when the stems are full of starch stored for use in reproduction.

The custom of employing the flowering branches for decorative purposes on 1 May is of very early origin ; but since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the tree has rarely been in full bloom in England before the second week of that month.

It is difficult to graft but grows well from seed, typically taking about 7 years before it flowers for the first time and 15 – 20 years to reach something approaching its full size of anything between 2 – 8 m. For the home gardener, buying a " red flowering gum " from a nursery is something of an adventure: it may or may not be a ficifolia, and the flower colour does not breed true-there is no way to find out what colour the flowers will be short of planting a seedling and waiting for it to reach maturity.

* December 14 – The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.

In flowering plant s, the sporophyte comprises the whole multicellular body except the pollen and Ovule | embryo sac In the normal course of events, the zygote and sporophyte will have a full double set of chromosomes again.

I would imagine, for example, that much of the flowering of Mormon historical studies in the 1970s, which has helped to give at least some Mormons a richer and more vital knowledge of their own heritage, has been more than tangentially related to the desire of Latter-day Saint historians to prove the Tanners wrong by showing that a full and honest history of the Latter-day Saints can indeed be written.

Ivies have two leaf types, with palmately lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun, usually high in the crowns of trees or the tops of rock faces, from 2 m or more above ground.

They reach full size by February and finally begin to ripen in March-a full year after flowering ceased.

The flowers of C. ventricosus are known to reach full flowering stage in just nine days following a fire.

Jenson's highly legible and evenly colored typeface, based upon Humanistic scripts, has been reinterpreted through the centuries by numerous type designers, most notably William Morris Jenson's fame as one of history's greatest typeface designers and punch cutters rests on the types first used in Eusebiu's De praeparatione evangelica, which presents the full flowering of roman type design.

He concluded that the Germans were the best Christians among all peoples, only prevented from the full flowering of their spiritual faculties by the materialistic Jews.

* The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.

It is however very common in road cuts and other disturbed areas in full sun in Sarawak, East Malaysia, where it often is the most common flowering plant to be seen along the roadsides.

While some of these young activists were drawn to the Progressive Labor Party ( PLP ), the full flowering of American Maoism would not come until the proliferation of new groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ), Weather Underground ( WUO ), Black Panthers ( BPP ) and the Communist Party ( Marxist – Leninist ) ( CP-ML ) after 1969.

It is the second highest place in Maharashtra, and its coolest place ; there is the Yashwant Lake which is natural and full of flowering lotus ; many people think that it is one of the best place for holidays.

Plant in full sun for best color and maximum flowering.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Theologically, he represents the shift from the classical to the medieval outlook ; his popular writings are full of dramatic miracles, potent relics, demons, angels, ghosts, and the approaching end of the world.

Even the scientific handling of law, which has grown up during medieval times in the new universities in Italy ( in particular in Bologna, Mantua ) did not come to a full and clear separation.

In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon stated the times of full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths ( horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta ) after noon on specified calendar dates.

Medieval poetical literature is full of allusions that can be traced to the Physiologus tradition ; the text also exerted great influence on the symbolism of medieval ecclesiastical art: symbols like those of the phoenix rising from its ashes and the pelican feeding her young with her own blood are still well-known.

This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

Tribue Domine ( a6 ) is a large-scale sectional composition setting a from a medieval collection of Meditationes which was commonly attributed to St Augustine, composed in a style which owes much to earlier Tudor settings of votive antiphons as a mosaic of full and semichoir passages.

It remained in use as a weapon of war intended for wielders wearing full plate armour either on foot or on horseback, throughout the late medieval period.

Although some terms in academia do go out of style, such as " Dark Ages ", the term Barbarian is in full common currency among all mainstream medieval scholars and is not out of style or outdated, though a disclaimer is often felt to be needed, as when Ralph W. Mathisen prefaces a discussion of barbarian bishops in Late Antiquity, " It should also be noted that the word " barbarian " will be used here as a convenient, nonpejorative term to refer to all the non-Latin and non-Greek speaking exterae gentes who dwelt around, and even eventually settled within, the Roman Empire during late antiquity ".

This evolved from the practice of singing a full Psalm during the entrance of the clergy, before the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar were added to the Mass in medieval times.

The walls encircle the bounds of the medieval city and constitute the most complete city walls in Britain, the full circuit measuring nearly.

The full width and breadth of the medieval era is seldom drawn upon.

A full size reclining copper gilt effigy of the Earl lies upon his Purbeck marble tomb – a fine piece of medieval metalwork cast in 1459.

The region is full of medieval castles, especially along the Nahe River.

In addition to the usual medieval rule that Easter was the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, this astronomical Easter Sunday was to be delayed by one week if this calculation would have placed it on the same day as the first day of Jewish Passover week, Nisan 15.

Science in medieval Islam examines the full range of scientific investigation in the Muslim world, whether performed within a religious or secular context.

In this talk he declared: " But the explanation of how man should live a life of active social service in full harmony with himself as a member of the community of spirit, I found in the writings of those great medieval mystics < nowiki > and Jan van Ruysbroek ( scholar ) | Jan van Ruysbroek < nowiki ></ nowiki > for whom ' self-surrender ' had been the way to self-realization, and who in ' singleness of mind ' and ' inwardness ' had found strength to say yes to every demand which the needs of their neighbours made them face, and to say yes also to every fate life had in store for them when they followed the call of duty as they understood it.

The Testament of the Papyngo ( parrot ), drawn in the familiar medieval manner, is another tract for the time, full of admonition to court and clergy.

The work is cast in the form of a dialogue full of riddles, in which Solomon, the wisest king of the land of Israel, and Saturn, the eldest of the elder gods of Roman mythology, though identified in the poem as a prince of the Chaldeans, quiz each other on Biblical, runic, and similar medieval lore.

The medieval tale of Arthur and his knights is full of Christian themes ; those themes involve the destruction of human plans for virtue by the moral failures of their characters, and the quest for an important Christian relic.

While it is true that women in the medieval period were never accorded full equality with men ( although some sects, such as the Cathars, afforded women greater status and rights ), some women were able to use their skill with the written word to gain renown.

In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon stated the times of full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths ( horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta ) after noon on specified calendar dates.

By the 16th century, before the Gregorian calendar reform, the medieval computus was out of sync with the actual seasons and the moon, and occasionally spring would have begun and a full moon passed a month before the computus put the first spring moon

During a horrific journey through this labyrinth, Willet discovers the full truth about Curwen's crimes and also the means of returning him to the grave.

Upon reaching Dün Mir, the warrior characters must go through the Gauntlet, a labyrinth full of monsters, to prove their skills to the Warlord Horrendous and gain the rank of a " Fire Knight ".

* The Test of the Chamber involves walking through a dark labyrinth and fighting off the attacks of spring-activated wooden dummies ; at the end of that, the contestant must carry a 300-pound cauldron full of hot coals for some distance.