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Cherry trees blossoming
Sweet cherries
Blissful blooms
Flowering cherries
cherry blossoms
cherry blossoms at Himeji Castle
cherry tree
Aizu-wakamatsu, Japan: Tsuruga Castle
Healed cleft graft on cherry (Prunus) stock. The scions (top) are double flowering cherry.
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus).
Observe the blooming of cherry blossoms
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Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap
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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
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Red and yellow cherry tomatoes, some forming a question mark, against a light blue background. (organic, fruits, vegetables)
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Dandelion with seeds blowing in the wind. Seed dispersion.
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curly kale. Kale or borecole (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group) a loose leafed, edible plant derived from the cabbage. vegetable
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Plant seedlings emerging from rich fertile soil
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