How To Use Edelweiss In A Sentence
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Some characteristic endemics exclusive to the Park such as Caňadas rockrose Helianthemum juliae, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum or the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides number only 200 specimens; of others, like the endemic Teide burnet Bencomia exstipulata, there are barely 60 specimens - almost 75% of the natural specimens of this species grow on the summits of Tenerife and La Palma.
Teide National Park, Spain
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The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora.
Teide National Park, Spain
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Meadows consist mainly of Kobresia (K. pygmaea and K. humilis) and Carex atrata sedge, often associated with forbs such as knotweed (Polygonum sphaerostachyum), meadow rue (Thalictrum alpinum), everlasting (Anaphalis xylorrhiza), edelweiss (Leontopodium pusillum), blue poppy (Meconopsis horridula), Potentilla spp.,
Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
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Think how a real rockface looks, with little crevices in which even the elusive edelweiss might survive.
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For some time now, Edelweiss has been looking for a larger footprint in retail broking, which is the forte of Anagram, a part of the Rs2,000 crore textiles major Arvind Lalbhai group.
Daily News & Analysis
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The area is also home to many beech forests and at higher altitudes there are even alpine roses and edelweiss.
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Green People, a company that specialises in natural bodycare products, has formulated a sun protection range that includes edelweiss, a plant that grows at such high altitudes that it has its own built-in SPF (sun protection factor).
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We found rare edelweiss by the path and picnicked on a grassy shelf, imagining free climbers, like spiders on the soaring pinnacles around us, mocking our apprehensions.
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There's a sprig of edelweiss, and a little square of fabric to hold up when the inspiration strikes Maria to make the children new clothes from the curtains.
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Large carnivores, it turned out, were attracting people who wouldn't come just for the edelweiss and primrose.
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High on the exposed hillsides yellow poppies danced blousily in the wind whilst sprays of blue forget-me-nots were interspersed with edelweiss and the stalks of wild onion plants.
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I am now at 6,000 ft, so my lungs pump that pure air greedily and I am thrilled to find early-flowering edelweiss in the far-as-the-eye-can-see wild-flower pastures.
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Celebrated in The Sound of Music, the edelweiss has white star-shaped flowers and grows on rocks and in crevices.
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And there were so many fascinating plants, edelweiss, even: who would have imagined that?
KARA KUSH
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
A Traveller in Little Things
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Within certain limits the ground grows greener as one ascends, and we passed upwards among primulas, asters, a large blue myosotis, gentians, potentillas, and great sheets of edelweiss.
Among the Tibetans
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Near one set of small waterfalls the first time I saw a small group of the South Island edelweiss, [Leucogenes grandiceps] in a charming location close to the water.
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Everybody right now is a disbeliever in the market, and that will set the context for the next year, but it may not be all that bad, said Vikas Khemani , head of institutional equities at Edelweiss Securities.
India Shares Post First Annual Fall in Three Years
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The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora.
Teide National Park, Spain
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Edelweiss, edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.
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The flora, especially on the limestone which is one of the most active centers of floristic speciation in the Balkans, includes many rare species such as the Pirin poppy, Papaver pirinica, golden aquilegia Aquilegia aurea, yellow gentian Gentiana lutea and edelweiss Leontopodium alpinum.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss, are round her throat; her stiffened. white linen sleeves finish at the elbow; and her full well-worn skirt is of gentian blue.
Plays : Second Series
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‘Wave your edelweiss to distract the Nazis,’ Sister Kate instructs, ‘so the von Trapps can make their escape.’
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Even the dignified Sir Alec Guinness was so enamoured of his co-star in ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ that he searched the Swiss mountains for a rare edelweiss to lay at her feet.
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Bags will be embellished with butterflies, edelweiss, feathers, motor bike straps, stabbed with decorative applied brooches and finished with chunky short shoulder chain straps.
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Think how a real rockface looks, with little crevices in which even the elusive edelweiss might survive.
Times, Sunday Times