Picturesque landscape with a pink tree. Medicinal properties of beautiful Tabebuia trees

Medicinal properties of beautiful Tabebuia trees
This beautiful pink flowering tree has several names, some call it Pink Trumpet Tree, or Purple Trumpet Tree, depends on color, others – Piuva Tree, like this beautiful tree, photographed in Brazil. Tabebuia impetiginosa is another name for these flowering plants of the Bignoniaceae family. In Spanish, it is called “roble”, which means (oak), but oak is not a flowering tree, and Trumpet Tree can’t be related to oaks in any way. Tabebuias have been called “trumpet trees”, but this name is usually applied to other trees and has become a reason for confusion and mis-identification. Tabebuia trees are blooming beautifully. Flowers sized from 3 to 11 cm of dense inflorescence. The colors of flowers are white, light pink, yellow, lavender, purple or red. The inner bark of some species has almost unbelievable medicinal properties.
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Blue Pearl of Russia. Beautiful nature of Siberia – world’s deepest lake Baikal

Beautiful nature of Siberia – world’s deepest lake Baikal

The nature has created Lake Baikal – magical beauty of Siberia, the deepest and the oldest lake in the world. Native Buryat people call the Baikal the ‘Holy Sea’. The Baikal holds 20% of the world’s freshwater, it is rich in biodiversity. Baikal’s 1,085 species of plants and animals, 80% of which are found nowhere else on the planet. Ukrainian photographer, physician, blogger and traveler Alexander Cheban let us make “a journey through the universe, Northern Lights, fragments of icebergs … and the rest is up to your imagination”. Baikal is oxygen-rich waters, Baikal is sparkling ice, Baikal is winter tale for true romantics. Let’s stroll through the incredibly beautiful pearl of Siberia – Lake Baikal.
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Beautiful Park in Japan. Floral Beauty of Hitsujiyama Park

Floral Beauty of Hitsujiyama Park

Each spring, from middle of April until beginning of May, Japan blooms all riot of colors. One of the most striking and attractive places for tourists at this time is Hitsujiyama park when the moss phlox (shibazakura) blooms, just beautiful patchwork of flowers. The shibazakura pink and white colored flowers look similar to cherry blossoms. Hitsujiyama park is located near the town of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture.
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Alien landscape and exotic beauty captured on camera. Kamchatka Ice Cave by photographer Denis Budko

Kamchatka Ice Cave by photographer Denis Budko
Born on January 8, 1980 in the region of the “Fire-breathing Mountains” in Kamchatka, Denis Budkov is a talented nature photographer. From the age of 15 he began to engage in hiking, and every year he discovered more and more new beauties of Kamchatka. He is a participant of the Golden Turtle, Best of Russia, Wildlife of Russia exhibitions. Also, he is the winner of the contest “Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011”.
Budko took beautiful photographs of colorful ice cave in Kamchatka, which is partly in the waters of the Kamchatka peninsula, Russian Far East. The water, wind, pressure and heated to hundreds of degrees lava have formed the amazing beauty of the cave. It is similar to ice fairy tale castle of The Snow Queen. The heated by volcano water melted the ice, forming long tunnels with vaults so thin that through them even sunlight penetrates. The sight is as beautiful as it is amazing.
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Inhabiting Philippines blue bird Palawan Peacock Pheasant

Beautiful blue bird Palawan Peacock Pheasant

In the photo – Palawan Peacock Pheasant (Latin – Polyplectron napoleonis). The gorgeous bird lives in the Palawan, Philippines. Palawan Peacock Pheasant has a bright, vivid iridescent blue-green plumage, elegant tail with a characteristic pattern in the form of eyes, which may be spread fan-like in courtship displays. Male species have high crest and spurs on the legs, and a white stripe over the eyes. However, the female representative is less beautiful, with dark brown plumage and smaller in size than the male.
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In some cultures, Grey Peacock Pheasant is a symbol of pride or vanity, due to the way the bird struts and shows off its plumage

Beautiful Grey Peacock Pheasant in art and photo
First of all, the most beautiful representatives of Polyplectron bicalcaratum (Grey Peacock Pheasants) are males! And the female birds are smaller, have darker color and less ornamented than the male. So, if in photographs or paintings you see a gorgeous bird with grayish brown feathers perfectly ornamented by green eye spots, it is for sure a male. Also, known as Burmese Peacock Pheasant, Grey Peacock Pheasant is the national bird of Myanmar.
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Born in zoological garden in Cheshire, England, little Aluna miniature antelope

There are 4 types of these babies. Most animals live in limestone and rocky deserts and in savannas, where thorny bushes grow in abundance. Dik-dik basically hide in dense bushes, and it is almost impossible to meet them in open space. They build their own paths and tunnels, which only them can pass. A larger animal cannot fit there. They are not afraid of either hyenas or leopards – no large predators. Although dik-dik is not the smallest antelope, its body length is only 45 cm, and its height does not exceed 35 cm. They weigh only 2 kg, there are also larger species, but their weight does not exceed 5 kg. This animal is very reminiscent of a funny toy. Charming image – complemented by slender thin legs and a sharp little face with a small funny frowning nose.

Little Aluna miniature antelope

Recently born a calf of one of the smallest antelopes, dik-dik antelope, has become a sensation of the zoological garden in Cheshire, England. Meanwhile, the new born female antelope got the nickname Little Aluna. Unfortunately, her mother did not show any interest in her after giving birth. So, one of the zoo workers Tim Rowlands started looking after her. Accordingly, cute Aluna is always with him, even when he is working at the computer. Besides, she enjoys running around the desk, tapping with her tiny hooves.
Noteworthy, the miniature antelope Dik-dik lives exclusively on the African continent. In fact, the smallest representatives of these animals can easily fit in the palm of an adult man. Also, cute animal Dik-dik can live for up to 10 years. By the way, Miniature antelopes are monogamous.
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The oldest carved figure – the Uffington White Horse, which dates back to Iron Age. Chalk figures in England

Chalk figures in England
Hill figures of England have always got my admiration with this country, history and people who have created timeless monuments of art and culture. The creation of hill figures has been known in England since prehistory, it is a form of art, called geoglyph. The earth carving depicts human and animals, sometimes abstract symbols and modern carving – advertising. The figures are usually created by cutting off a layer of a chalk hill. The opened white chalk spot perfectly contrasts with the green hill grass, and the image is clearly visible for a distance. Ancient hill figures are a phenomenon in England, and the oldest carved figure is the Uffington White Horse, which dates back to Iron Age. Most of the figures are ancient pieces of art, but many are relatively new. For example, Devizes in Wiltshire created a large white horse for the 2000 Millennium celebrations.
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Vivian. Paul Lange’s beautiful photographs of flowers

Paul Lange’s beautiful photographs of flowers. I have already posted the article “White blooms by Paul Lange” with lots of awesome images of white flowers. And these colorful images of flowers are not less beautiful and also made without any manipulations in Photoshop, by New York City based fashion photographer Paul Lange. The Fine Art photographer Paul Lange has 25 years of experience in art of photography, his works were published in Vogue, New York Times, exhibited in galleries and sold to private collectors in the USA and abroad. Born and raised in New York city, Paul lives in Chatham, with his wife.
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