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Sylvestre Ducar Decapite Flaminius (Trasimene)
Sylvestre can refer to: People Surname Given name Middle name * Carlos Sylvestre Begnis (1903–1980), Argentine medical doctor and politician * Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (1622–1687), French Protestant apothecary, banker, collector, and author * Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup (1782–1862), French physician and naturalist * Marie Nicolas Sylvestre Guillon (1760–1847), French ecclesiastic * Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard (1771–1843), French military commander * Jean François Sylvestre Denis de Trobriand (1765–1799), French naval officer and navigator Plants * ''Cichorium sylvestre'', a synonym of ''Cichorium intybus'', common chicory * ''Galium sylvestre'', a synonym for ''Galium album'', a plant species native to Europe * ''Gymnema sylvestre'', a perennial woody vine native to Asia * ''Hypocalymma sylvestre'', a member of the family Myrtaceae, endemic to Western Australia * ''Metroxylon sylvestre'', a synonym for ''Metroxylon sagu'', a species of palm nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Sylvestre Begnis
Carlos Sylvestre Begnis (30 August 1903 – 22 September 1980) was a medical doctor and politician, born in Alto Grande, a village near Bell Ville, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba province in Argentina. He was a rural physician and worked as a surgery, surgeon in hospitals of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. He entered politics through the Radical Civic Union. In 1958 he was elected governor of Santa Fe, following a period of ''de facto'' military rule (after the Revolución Libertadora, which had ousted president Juan Perón three years before). He became a part of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI), and then formed part of the leadership of the Movement for Integration and Development (MID). His term was ended by a federal intervention. In the 1970s, Sylvestre Begnis moved to the Justicialist Party (Peronism), and was elected governor again in 1973 (Argentina had just emerged from seven years of military dictatorship). The Hernandari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocalymma Sylvestre
''Hypocalymma sylvestre'' commonly known as Chittering myrtle, is a species of flowering in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub, with broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves, and pale yellow flowers with 100 to 200 stamens in several rows. Description ''Hypocalymma sylvestre'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped, long, wide and usually V-shaped in cross section. The leaves are hairy and dotted with many small oil glands. The flowers are in diameter, and often arranged in pairs with bracteoles long at the base. The floral tube is wide and the sepals are very broadly egg-shaped, long and wide. The petals are pale yellow, long and there are 100 to 200 pale yellow stamens, the longest filaments about long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a capsule long and in diam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvestre
Silvestre is a Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese given name or surname, or a French language, French surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Cindy Silvestre (born 1993), French kickboxer *Franck Silvestre (born 1967), retired French footballer *Isac Silvestre (born 2006), Brazilian footballer *Israel Silvestre (1621–1691; called the Younger to distinguish him from his father), prolific French draftsman *José Plaridel Silvestre, writer and senior official of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines *Louis de Silvestre (1675–1760), French portrait and history painter, (son of Israel Silvestre) *Manuel Silvestre (born 1965), former Spanish water polo player *Matías Silvestre (born 1984), Argentine football (soccer) player *Mikaël Silvestre (born 1977), French football (soccer) player *Paul Armand Silvestre (1837–1901), French poet and conteur ;Part of combined surname *Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1871–1921), Spanish military general *An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Sylvestre (other)
Saint-Sylvestre may refer to: * Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec * Saint-Sylvestre, Ardèche, France * Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Savoie, France * Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, France See also * Pope Sylvester I, honored in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches as Saint Sylvester * Saint Sylvester (other) * Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel, Nord, France * Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état Saint-Sylvestre may refer to: * Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec * Saint-Sylvestre, Ardèche, France * Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Savoie, France * Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, France See also * Pope Sylvester I, honored in the Catholic Church and the Eas ... * Saint-Sylvestre-de-Cormeilles, Eure, France * Saint-Sylvestre-Pragoulin, Puy-de-Dôme, France * Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France * Sylvestre (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syzygium Sylvestre
''Syzygium makul'' is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, .... References Flora of Sri Lanka makul Vulnerable plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Myrtaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribes Sylvestre
The redcurrant or red currant (''Ribes rubrum'') is a member of the genus ''Ribes'' in the gooseberry family. It is native to western Europe. The species is widely cultivated and has escaped into the wild in many regions. Description ''Ribes rubrum'' is a deciduous shrub normally growing to tall, occasionally , with five-lobed leaves arranged spirally on the stems. The flowers are inconspicuous yellow-green, in pendulous racemes, maturing into bright red translucent edible berries about diameter, with 3–10 berries on each raceme. An established bush can produce of berries from mid- to late summer. Phytochemicals Redcurrant fruits are known for their tart flavor, a characteristic provided by a relatively high content of organic acids and mixed polyphenols. As many as 65 different phenolic compounds may contribute to the astringent properties of redcurrants, with these contents increasing during the last month of ripening. Twenty-five individual polyphenols and other n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasophyllum Sylvestre
''Prasophyllum sylvestre'', commonly known as the forest leek orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has a single tubular, bright green leaf and up to thirty faintly scented, pale green, pink and reddish-brown flowers. It is similar to ''P. fuscum'' and ''P. affine'' but differs from them, including in the habitat in which they grow. Description ''Prasophyllum sylvestre'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single bright green, tube-shaped leaf, long and wide with a red base. Between five and thirty flowers are well-spaced along a flowering spike about long. The flowers are pale green, pink and reddish-brown, wide and lightly scented. As with others in the genus, the flowers are inverted so that the labellum is above the column rather than below it. The dorsal sepal is linear to egg-shaped, long and about wide. The lateral sepals are linear to lance-shaped, long, about wide and joined for about hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metroxylon Sylvestre
''Metroxylon sagu'', the true sago palm, is a species of palm in the genus '' Metroxylon'', native to tropical southeastern Asia. The tree is a major source of sago starch. Description True sago palm is a suckering (multiple-stemmed) palm, each stem only flowering once ( hapaxanthic) with a large upright terminal inflorescence. A stem grows tall before it ends in an inflorescence. Before flowering, a stem bears about 20 pinnate leaves up to long. Each leaf has about 150–180 leaflets up to long. The inflorescence, tall and wide, consists of the continuation of the stem and 15–30 upwardly-curving (first-order) branches spirally arranged on it. Each first-order branch has 15–25 rigid, distichously arranged second-order branches; each second-order branch has 10–12 rigid, distichously arranged third-order branches. Flower pairs are spirally arranged on the third-order branches, each pair consisting of one male and one hermaphrodite flower. The fruit is drupe-like, abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnema Sylvestre
''Gymnema sylvestre'' is a perennial woody vine native to Asia (including the Arabian Peninsula), Africa and Australia. It has been used in Ayurvedic medicine. Common names include gymnema, Australian cowplant, and Periploca of the woods, and the Hindi term ''gurmar'', which means "sugar destroyer". The leaves and extracts contain gymnemic acids, the major bioactive constituents that interact with taste receptors on the tongue to temporarily suppress the taste of sweetness. Description The plant is a climber with leaves having soft hairs on the upper surface. The leaves are elongated-oval in shape. It has a small, yellow, umbelliferous inflorescence that is produced throughout the year. Properties ''Gymnema sylvestre'' has a long history of use in herbal medicine and a broad range of therapeutic properties. Blocks sweet taste sensations Its leaves contain triterpenoid saponins, flavonols, and gurmarin. The major biologically active plant molecules are gymnemic acid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Sylvestre Dufour
Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (born Manosque 1622, died Vevey ( Canton de Vaud) 1687) was a French Protestant apothecary, banker, collector, and author based in Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north .... Publications Philippe Sylvestre Dufour published two works. * ''De l'usage du caphé, du thé et du chocolate'', Lyon, Jean Girin et Barthélémy Rivière, 1671. * ''Instruction morale d'un père à son fils, qui part pour un long voyage : ou, Maniere aisée de former un jeune homme à toutes fortes de vertus'', Lyon, Antoine Cellier fils, 1678. 1622 births 1687 deaths Writers from Lyon 17th-century French male writers Businesspeople from Lyon {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galium Sylvestre
''Galium album'', common names white bedstraw and upright hedge bedstraw, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae and is native to much of Europe. Description The stems can grow to at least and are more or less erect with ascending branches. The stem is square in sections with slight flanges. The plant is relatively hairless with shiny leaves and stem. Flowers are white or yellowish.Clapham, A. R., Tutin, T. G. and Warburg, E. F. (1987). ''Excursion Flora of the British Isles.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . p. 302. The fruits are hairless.Michalková, Eleonóra. 1993. Biología, Bot. (Bratislava) 48(1): 48 Distribution and habitat ''Galium album'' is widespread over much of Europe, native to a large region from Britain to Morocco, east to Turkey and Western Siberia. It has been introduced and is naturalized in Ireland, Scandinavia, Greenland and South Australia. It is found in pastures and grassy banks, especially on dry calcareous soils. In Britain, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cichorium Sylvestre
Common chicory (''Cichorium intybus'') is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Native to Europe, it has been introduced to the Americas and Australia. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons ( blanched buds), or roots (var. ''sativum''), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber. Chicory is also grown as a forage crop for livestock. Description When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem. It can grow to tall. The leaves are stalked, lanceolate and unlobed; they range from in length (smallest near the top) and wide. The flower heads are wide, and usually light blue or lavender; it has also rarely been described as white or pink. Of the two rows of involucral bracts, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
