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Workmen put the finishing touches on a giant flower pot in Tiananmen Square as the city prepares for the upcoming 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Sept. 22. Xi Jinping is widely expected to be named head of the ruling Communist Party and become president in the country's once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
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Photographers take pictures of an orchid named in honor of Diana, Princess of Wales at Singapore Botanical Gardens ahead of a visit by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge on September 11, 2012 in Singapore. The royal couple are on a Diamond Jubilee tour taking in Singapore, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and the tiny Pacific Island of Tuvalu.
Read about the Kimilsungia, an orchid named to honor another dynasty, in a previous post on PhotoBlog and see how the royal couple reacted to the plant in the video below.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge -- aka Will and Kate -- arrive in Singapore, the first stop on their Southeast Asia tour, to view a special orchid named in honor of Princess Diana. NBC's Sara James reports.
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A predatory spider waits to ambush an unsuspecting insect on a Queen Anne's lace flower growing in a field near Roseburg, Ore., on Sunday, July 29. The seeds of the plant, also known as wild carrot, were once thought to be a form of birth control. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lists Queen Anne's lace as a noxious weed.
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Visitors of the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen saw nothing less than a sensation when an Amorphophallus Titanum bloomed for the first time in nine years in Denmark, on June 22. However, it might be a malodorous experience as the giant plant emits a strong odor of carcass and therefore has been nicknamed the Corpse-flower or Mr. Stinky.
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The hands of a rose picker are full of roses during the rose-picking season near the village of Tarnichene, Bulgaria.
Rose oil production in Bulgaria's famous Rose Valley is set to increase by 25 percent according to a mid-season estimate by experts in spite of the climate changes and economy crisis. Bulgaria is traditionally one of the biggest world exporters of high-grade rose oil along with Morocco and neighboring Turkey, with clients mostly from the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. Rose oil is the most commonly used essential oil in the perfume industry.
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A rose picker carries a sack full of rose flowers as he walks in a rose field.
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An elderly woman picks roses.
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An elderly woman carries a sack full of rose flowers on her head as she walks in rose field.
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Rose pickers load sacks full of rose flowers onto a horse cart.
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An orchid is part of the Petal Madness exhibition at the Quito Botanical Garden in Quito, Ecuador on Friday. Ecuador is recognized worldwide for their diversity of flower species known to be home to hundreds of orchid genres.
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These blooming orchids are part of the Petal Madness exhibition at the Quito Botanical Garden.
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A Nepenthes truncata is part of the Petal Madness exhibition at the Quito Botanical Garden.
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The Ecuadorean orchid Telipogon Sarae is part of the Petal Madness exhibition at the Quito Botanical Garden.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialist uses a loupe to find mites on the leaves of roses imported from Ecuador for Mother's Day on May 7.
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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialist Robin Martin inspects roses imported from Ecuador for Mother's Day for pests and diseases on May 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. On a typical day, the CBP seizes about 4,436 prohibited plant, meat and animal byproducts and finds 570 agricultural pests from abroad that could harm US agriculture.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialist shines a flashlight on a mite shaken from flowers imported for Mother's Day on May 7 in Los Angeles, California. On a typical day, the CBP seizes about 4,436 prohibited plant, meat and animal byproducts and finds 570 agricultural pests from abroad that could harm U.S. agriculture.
A similar set of pictures appeared in PhotoBlog around Valentine's Day, when inspectors in Miami found a tiny snail in roses from South America.
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Farmer Christiane Degenhardt (C) and friend Barbara Ulferts gather tulips at Degenhardt's tulip field on April 27, near Schwaneberg, Germany. Spring weather is finally taking hold in Germany with temperatures expected to reach 28 degrees Celsius by the weekend.
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Workers check tulip heads in a tulip field on April 27, near Schwaneberg, Germany. Spring weather is finally taking hold in Germany with temperatures expected to reach 28 degrees Celsius by the weekend. Since the tulips will be sold for their bulbs rather than their flowers, the workers need to check that the machine that bends the tulip heads over (a process that makes for better bulbs) was successful.
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An early spring coaxes the birds, bees, flowers and humans to come out from winter hibernation to enjoy the sunshine.
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Dandelions are in a state ready for seed dispersal by the wind on April 20, in Doylestown, Pa.
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An early spring coaxes the birds, bees, flowers and humans to come out from winter hibernation to enjoy the sunshine.
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A couple in a boat passes beneath cherry blossom trees along Imperial Palace Chidorigafuchi moats in Tokyo, Japan, on April 6. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that blossoms of cherry trees are fully bloomed in Tokyo.
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Cherry blossoms in full bloom are seen in Kawasaki, near Tokyo on April 6. Spring has begun in Japan with the blooming of the country's beloved cherry trees, with revelers eager to use the occasion as a way to break from a year marked by crisis and disaster.
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A cherry blossom is seen lying on a cherry tree roots at the Yasukuni Shrine precincts in Tokyo, Japan, on April 6. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that blossoms of cherry trees are fully bloomed in Tokyo.
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This year marks 100 years since the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki to Washington, D.C.
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Daffodils that have been left to flower at Fentongollan Farm on Wednesday near Truro, England. Despite the gloomy economic outlook, some retailers are reporting a surge in demand for daffodils, which have been traditionally grown in Cornwall as it is one of the mildest counties in the UK. Many of the cut-flower businesses still in existence today were established in the Victorian era when the new railway transport network put once remote locations in touch with the London markets.
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Daffodils near Fentongollan Farm near Truro, England.
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A worker packs freshly picked daffodils for postal orders at Fentongollan Farm on Wednesday near Truro, England.
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A worker packs freshly picked daffodils for postal orders at Fentongollan Farm on Wednesday.
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A woman carries marigold flowers on her head on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on March 5, 2012. Marigolds are widely used in garlands and for Hindu religious rituals.
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