Rose robin

The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae it is sexually dimorphic. The male has a distinctive pink breast. Its upperparts are dark grey with white frons, and its tail black with white tips. The underparts and shoulder are white. The female is an undistinguished grey-brown. The robin has a small black bill and eyes.

It is endemic to Australia east or south of the Great Dividing Range, from Queensland through to southeastern South Australia. Its natural habitats are the gullies and valleys of temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

Like all Australian robins, the rose robin is not closely related to either the European robin or the American robin, but belongs rather to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, fairywrens and honeyeaters as well as crows. It belongs to the genus Petroica, whose Australian members are known colloquially as "red robins" as distinct from the "yellow robins" of the genus Eopsaltria. It was first described be ornithologist John Gould in 1840, with its specific epithet derived from the Latin roseus 'pink'. Testing of the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of Australian members of the genus Petroica suggests the rose and pink robins are each other's closest relative within the genus.

Black Rose

Black Rose or Black Roses may refer to:

  • Black rose (symbolism), a rose with black petals
  • Black Rose (BDSM organization), a BDSM organization headquartered in Washington, DC
  • Black rose (grape), a grape cultivar
  • Black Rose (pinball), a pinball machine produced by Midway
  • Black Rose (wrestler) (born 1981), Puerto Rican wrestler
  • Black Roses (American Samoan football club)
  • Media

    Print

  • Black Rose (.hack), a fictional character from the .hack media franchise
  • Black Rose (magazine), an anarchist magazine published in Boston during the 1970s and 1980s
  • The Black Rose (novel), a 1945 historical novel by Thomas B. Costain
  • Black Rose Books, a Montréal publishing house primarily known for its anarchist titles
  • Kodachi Kuno ("The Black Rose"), a character in Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ media franchise
  • Black Rose, an incarnation of Roxanne Simpson in Ghost Rider comic books
  • Film

  • Black Roses (1921 film), a 1921 American crime drama film
  • Black Roses (1935 film), a 1935 German historical drama film
  • The Black Rose, a 1950 adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles
  • Black rose (symbolism)

    Black roses are symbols featured in fiction with many different meanings and titles such as black velvet rose, black magic, barkarole, black beauty, Tuscany superb, black jade, and baccara. The roses commonly called black roses are technically a very dark shade of red, purple or maroon. The color of a rose may be deepened by placing a dark rose in a vase of water mixed with black ink. Other black roses may be blackened by other methods such as burning.

    Political

    Anarchism

    The black rose is a rarely used symbol of the anarchist movement.

    Black Rose Books is the name of the Montreal anarchist publisher and small press imprint headed by the libertarian-municipalist/anarchist Dimitrios Roussopoulos. One of the two anarchist bookshops in Sydney is Black Rose Books which has existed in various guises since 1982.

    The Black Rose was the title of a respected journal of anarchist ideas published in the Boston area during the 1970s, as well as the name of an anarchist lecture series addressed by notable anarchist and libertarian socialists (including Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky) into the 1990s.

    Olmo grapes

    Olmo grapes are wine and table grape varieties produced by University of California, Davis viticulturist Dr. Harold Olmo. Over the course of his nearly 50-year career, Dr. Olmo bred a wide variety of both grapes by means of both crossing varieties from the same species or creating hybrid grapes from cultivars of different Vitis species.

    Over 30 new grape varieties were created by Dr. Olmo and introduced to the California wine and table grape industries.

    Ruby Cabernet

    Ruby Cabernet is the most notable and widely planted Olmo grape. It is a crossing between the Vitis vinifera varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan that was first trailed by Dr. Olmo in 1936 before being released in 1948. The grape is primarily used in blending, adding color and tartness, but producers such as E & J Gallo Winery have produced varietal wines from the grape. According to wine expert Jancis Robinson, Ruby Cabernet can have some aromas reminiscent of a young Cabernet Sauvignon with the color of a Carignan but it lacks the structure and body to produce premium wines.

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    Black Rose

    by: Luca Turilli's Dreamquest

    Red rose, so attractive
    Bleeding broken feelings
    In this shade of hate
    Your colour turns to black
    New dawn enlight my wrong thoughts
    Make blind my weakness
    Align the astral conscience
    To my old strength
    Outside, no ways need to be found
    Change of visual
    Inside, find the deepest contact
    With your soul
    A face that hides a secret
    Dark lying mirror
    An always hidden whisper
    Revealing truth
    SENSATION, EMOTION
    DEEP FEELING, TRUE DEVOTION
    SUPREME LOVE, SUPREME HATE
    DIVINE CHOICE FOR A NEW FATE
    Symptoms of viral illness
    Hard to challenge
    Closed eyes tired to see the
    Red rose turning black
    A never-ending try
    To escape myself
    While there still lies the mirror
    And something more
    SENSATION, EMOTION
    DEEP FEELING, TRUE DEVOTION
    SUPREME LOVE, SUPREME HATE
    DIVINE CHOICE FOR A NEW FATE




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