HanaFlowers.com is a proud sponsor of this year's Maui Film Festival in Wailea Maui. The Maui Film Festival is an amazing place to enjoy watching some of the best films under the stars. Hanaflowers.com will be sponsoring Hawaiian tropical flower displays throughout the sponsor’s tents during this star-studded event. The festival begins on Wednesday, June 16th and runs thru Sunday, June 20th. You can view the large selections of films this year on the 2010 festival website HERE.
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Here is the basic scenario in orchid pollination. When a pollinator enters into an orchid that produce pollinia, it touches a viscidium, which promptly sticks to its body, usually on the head or abdomen. Then, when leaving the flower, it pulls the pollinium out of the anther, as it is connected to the viscidium by the caudicle or stipe. The caudicle then bends and the pollinium is moved forwards and downwards. When the pollinator enters another flower of the same species, the pollinium has taken such position that it will...
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The celebration of Mother's Day as a holiday in the US is attributed to Mrs. Anna Jarvis, who dedicated her life to promoting the holiday. She was inspired by her own mother's devotion to the raising of a family of eleven children. On the second anniversary of her mother's death, the second Sunday in May, Anna Jarvis convinced her mother's parish in West Virginia to hold a celebration of Mother's Day. The church was decorated with her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation, a symbol of sweetness, purity and endurance....
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