"was marketed as the strongest commercial beer in the world (a mark that has since been challenged). The company subsequently released new ""vintages"" of ""Utopias"" annually, increasing the alcoholic content to 27% ABV by 2007. ""Utopias"" is made with caramel, Vienna, Moravian and Bavarian smoked malts, and four varieties of noble hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, Tettnanger, Spalter, and Saaz hops. The beer is matured in scotch, cognac and port barrels for the better part of a year. A limited number of bottles are released each year; in 2007, only 12,000 bottles were produced, and in 2009, only 9,000 bottles were released."
"as Hallertau, Spalt, and Tettnang from Germany), by the farmer who is recognized as first cultivating them (such as Goldings or Fuggles from England), or by their growing habit (e. g., Oregon Cluster). Around 1900, a number of institutions began to experiment with breeding specific hop varieties. The breeding program at Wye College in Wye, Kent was started in 1904 and rose to prominence through the work of Prof. E. S. Salmon. Salmon released Brewer's Gold and Brewer's Favorite for commercial cultivation in 1934, and went on to release more than two dozen new cultivars before his death in 1959."
"Select"", and ""Smaragd"", as well as the high alpha varieties ""Hallertauer Magnum"" (1980), ""Hallertauer Merkur"", ""Hallertauer Taurus"", and ""Herkules"" (2005). In response to the global craft beer movement, the institute developed several ""special flavor hops"": ""Hallertau Blanc"", ""Huell Melon"", ""Mandarina Bavaria"", and ""Polaris"" were released in 2012, and ""Ariana"" and ""Callista"" were released in 2016. Hop Research Center Hüll The Hop Research Center Hüll (""Hopfenforschungszentrum Hüll"") is a research institution focussing on advances in hop breeding, hop harvesting, and hop chemistry. It is located in the Hallertau, the largest continuous hop-planting area in the world, in the German state of"
"(e.g. ""T. aestivum"" and ""T. spelta"") are the result of a hybridisation between a domesticated tetraploid wheat, probably ""T. dicoccum"" or ""T. durum"", and another goatgrass, ""Ae. tauschii"" (also known as ""Ae. squarrosa""). Botanists of the classical period, such as Columella, and in sixteenth and seventeenth century herbals, divided wheats into two groups, ""Triticum"" corresponding to free-threshing wheats, and ""Zea"" corresponding to hulled ('spelt') wheats. Carl Linnaeus recognised five species, all domesticated: Later classifications added to the number of species described, but continued to give species status to relatively minor variants, such as winter vs. spring forms. The wild wheats"
"still popular in the horticulture trade. The native type is rarely used or described, though it grew from in height. The most common selections are the dwarf sizes that go by names such as 'Sizzler' and 'Salsa', and planted en masse in gardens and malls. 'Van Houttei' reaches in height. The various types typically have red flowers. Named cultivars include ""S. splendens"" 'Alba', with white flowers; 'Atropurpurea', with dark violet to purple flowers; 'Atrosanguinea', flowers dark red; 'Bicolor', flowers white and red; 'Bruantii', small, with red flowers; 'Compacta', small, flowers in dense racemes, white or red; 'Grandiflora', large, with large"
"Satz plantation together with varieties such as Elbling, Heunisch, Riesling, Pinot gris, Silvaner and Traminer. In the 19th century, It seems to have been particularly common in many of the best vineyard sites, such as Rüdesheimer Berg in Rheingau and the vineyards Jesuitengarten, Kirchenstück and Ungeheuer around Forst in the Palatinate, where it was mixed with Riesling and Traminer. The reason for this seems to be that, although high yielding, it is a late ripening variety that needed to be planted in these sites in order to ripen properly, and would not give a good quality in every year. Most"
"rehsteineri"", ""Orcis coriophor"", ""Orchis palustris"", ""Oxytropis pilosa"", ""Potentilla micrantha"", ""Ranunculus reptans"", and ""Samolus valerandi"". Research on crop stress and disease includes ""Arabidopsis thaliana"", ""Coffea arabica"", ""Fragaria vesca"", ""Malus domestica"", ""Medicago sativa"", ""Phragmites australis"", and ""Vicia faba. Botanical Garden of the University of Konstanz The Botanischer Garten der Universität Konstanz (1.5 hectares) is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Konstanz. It is located about 250 meters northwest of the campus north parking lot in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and open weekdays without charge. The garden was begun in 1972, with its first greenhouses completed in 1982. Additional greenhouses were added"
"market for cut roses. Rosen Tantau's cultivar 'Black Magic' is one of the most successful rose varieties ever. Rosen Tantau Rosen Tantau (also ""RosenWelt Tantau"") is a rose breeding company located at Uetersen, in the District of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important Rose farms worldwide, and has developed a large number of well-known rose cultivars. Founded in 1906 by Mathias Tantau (1882–1953), it became important in the 1930s. In 1948, his son Mathias Tantau jun. (1912–2006) took over. He developed some famous hybrid tea roses, e.g. 'Polarstern', 'Super Star' or 'Fragrant Cloud', earning many"
"sativa"", ""Smyrnium olusatrum"", ""Ammi"" species, ""Anthriscus cerefolium"", ""Berula erecta"", ""Bupleurum"" species, ""Cicuta virosa"", ""Coriandrum sativum"", ""Daucus carota"", ""Eryngium campestre"", ""Falcaria vulgaris"", ""Heracleum mantegazzianum"", ""Levisticum officinale"", ""Ligusticum scoticum"", etc.). They are considered a pest of celery (""Apium graveolens"") and parsnips (""Pastinaca sativa""), where they damage the vegetables by leaf mining. Euleia heraclei Euleia heraclei, known as the celery fly or the hogweed picture-wing fly is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus ""Euleia"" of the family Tephritidae. This species is widespread in most of Europe (Great Britain, Austria, Belgium. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,"
"egret (""Egretta garzetta""); osprey (""Pandion haliaetus""); grey-faced buzzard (""Butastur indicus""); buff-banded rail (""Gallirallus philippensis""); barred rail (""Gallirallus torquatus""); white-breasted waterhen (""Amaurornis phoenicurus""); greater painted-snipe (""Rostratula benghalensis""); Kentish plover (""Charadrius alexandrines""); greater sand plover (""Charadrius leschenaultia""); whimbrel (""Numenius phaeopus""); common greenshank (""Tringa nebularia""); grey-tailed tattler (""Heteroscelus brevipes""); ruddy turnstone (""Arenaria interpres""); spotted dove (""Spilopelia chinensis""); fork-tailed swift (""Apus pacificus kanoi""); house swift (""Apus affinis""); collared kingfisher (""Todiramphus chloris""); Pacific swallow (""Hirundo tahitica""); elegant tit (""Parus elegans""); orange-flanked bush robin (""Tarsiger cyanurus""); Asian glossy starling (""Aplonis panayensis""); crested myna (""Acridotheres cristatellus""); pygmy flowerpecker (""Dicaeum pygmaeum""); lowland white-eye (""Zosterops meyeni""); and Eurasian tree"
"Huntsch, Hyntsch, Issal, Issol, Kleinbeer, Kleinberger, Laxiertraube, Lombard Blanc, Luxiertraube, Mehlweisse, Mehlweisse Gruen, Mendic, Moreau Blanc, Mouillet, Nargouet, Pendrillart Blanc, Petit Gouge, Pichons, Plant De Sechex, Plant Madame, Plant Seche, President, Regalaboue, Riesling Grob, Rous Hette, Roussaou Blanc, Rudeca Saboule Boey, Sadoule Boey, Sadoulo Bouyer, Seestock Grob, Tejer Szozeloe, Thalburger, Trompe Bouvier, Trompe Valet, Verdet, Verdin Blanc, Vionnier, Weisse Traube, Weisser Heunisch, Weissgrobe, Weissheinsch, Weissstock, Weisstock, Wippacher, Zoeld Hajnos Gouais blanc Gouais blanc () or Weißer Heunisch () is a white grape variety that is seldom grown today but is important as the ancestor of many traditional French and German"
"Scleranthus annuus Scleranthus annuus is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known throughout the rest of the temperate world as an introduced species and a common weed. It grows in many types of habitat, often in disturbed areas. It is an annual herb with low, spreading stems up to 15 centimeters long growing from a taproot. The leaves are needle-like or linear in shape with sharp, stiff points. They are oppositely arranged in pairs about"
"origin. As of 2014, the two groups of lager brewing yeasts are classified as either type I: Saaz type, allotriploid strains that appear to have lost large portions of their ""S. cerevisiae"" genome. These include strains CBS 1513 (formerly classified as ""S. carlsbergensis"") and CBS 1503 (formerly classified as ""S. monacensis"") or type 2: Frohberg type, allotetraploid strains that contain near complete sets of genomes from both parents. These include the strain Weihenstephan WS 34/70 considered close to the type strain of ""S. pastorianus"" CBS 1538. In 2015, researchers succeeded in creating novel lager brewing yeasts by hybridizing selected strains"
"cultivar groups have been identified: DNA data reveal that ""C. lanatus"" var. ""citroides"" Bailey is the same as Thunberg's bitter wooly melon, ""C. lanatus"" and also the same as ""C. amarus"" Schrad. It is not a form of the sweet watermelon ""C. vulgaris"" and not closely related to that species. The citron melon or ""makataan"" - a variety with sweet yellow flesh that is cultivated around the world for fodder, and the production of citron peel and pectin. ""C. caffer"" Schrad. is a synonym of ""C. amarus"" Schrad. The variety known as ""tsamma"" is grown for its juicy white flesh."
"the stem and are fused together at the bases. Flowers occur in pairs or small clusters of up to five. The flowers lack petals but have bell-shaped calyces of green petal-shaped sepals. Scleranthus annuus Scleranthus annuus is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known throughout the rest of the temperate world as an introduced species and a common weed. It grows in many types of habitat, often in disturbed areas. It is an annual herb"
"on more than 15 species of monocot and dicot uncovered for the first time that differences in leaf anatomy are crucial factors in differentiating photosynthetic capacities among species. In tropical grasses, including maize, sorghum, sugarcane, Bermuda grass and in the dicot amaranthus, leaf photosynthetic rates were around 38−40 μmol CO·m·s, and the leaves have two types of green cells, i. e. outer layer of mesophyll cells surrounding a tightly packed cholorophyllous vascular bundle sheath cells. This type of anatomy was termed Kranz anatomy in the 19th century by the botanist Gottlieb Haberlandt while studying leaf anatomy of sugarcane. Plant species"
"product is ""Hardenberg Weizenkorn"", furthermore Schwartzhog, Sambalita, Helios, Persiko, Milder Wacholder, Kleiner Keiler, Wilthener Gebirgskräuter, Danziger Goldwasser and Miamee. As of 2011, the turnover is reported to be 97 million Euros. Schwartzhog is a brand name of ""Kräuterlikör"" (herbal liqueur). Traditionally it is consumed as a digestif liqueur, its ingredients include herbs, fruits and roots such as wormwood, ginger and “Sauwurz” (Gentiana lutea). ""(Gentian) comforts the heart and preserves it against faintings and swoonings."" Nicholas Culpepper, Complete Herbal (1653) Sauwurz, (literally ""Hogroot"") is a member of the Gentian family and is found across central and southern Europe, at high altitudes."
"Rosen Tantau Rosen Tantau (also ""RosenWelt Tantau"") is a rose breeding company located at Uetersen, in the District of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important Rose farms worldwide, and has developed a large number of well-known rose cultivars. Founded in 1906 by Mathias Tantau (1882–1953), it became important in the 1930s. In 1948, his son Mathias Tantau jun. (1912–2006) took over. He developed some famous hybrid tea roses, e.g. 'Polarstern', 'Super Star' or 'Fragrant Cloud', earning many rose awards - 'Fragrant Cloud' was awarded the title ""World's Favorite Rose' in 1981. 1985 Mathias Tantau sold"
"Wakatu Hops Wakatu Hops are dual purpose hop used for flavouring and bittering beer, which are grown in Nelson, New Zealand. They received their name from the incorrect spelling of ""Whakatu"", the Maori name for Nelson. Being bred from the Hallertau hop, they are often semi-correctly referred to as Hallertau hops. Wakatu and Hallertau hops are often interchangeable in beer recipes due to their close ties. The Wakatu hop variety was created by HortResearch as an attempt to breed a new aroma hop. Female Hallertau Miitlefrüh was pollinated by the male of a native New Zealand hop variety. The resultant"
"Yellow Oat-grass (""Trisetum flavescens"") are also frequent. There is a high component of herb species throughout the meadows including Saw-wort (""Serratuta tinctoria""), Dyer’s Greenweed (""Genista tinctoria""), Common Knapweed, Pepper-saxifrage (""Silaum silaus""), Devil’s-bit Scabious (""Succisa pratensis""), Betony (""Stachys officinalis"") and Spiny Restharrow (""Ononis spinosa""). The calcareous nature of the soil is reflected by the presence of Cowslip (""Primula veris""), Fairy Flax (""Linum catharticum""), Glaucous Sedge (""Carex flacca""), Lady’s Bedstraw (""Galium verum"") and occasional Salad Burnet (""Sanguisorba minor""). The meadows are bounded by hedges supporting numerous species including Hawthorn (""Crataegus monogyna""), Wych Elm (""Ulmus glabra""), English Elm (""Ulmus procera""), Hazel (""Corylus avellana"")"
"red flowers; 'Issanchon', small, with white flowers striped pink to red; 'Nana', an early-flowering cultivar, with red blossoms; 'Scarlet Pygmy', a very dwarf, early flowering seed race with intense scarlet blossoms; 'Semperflorens', continuous flowering; 'Souchetii', small, with white or red flowers; 'St. John's Fire', dwarf plants with dense, abundant, bright red, early-flowering, long-lasting blossoms; and 'Violacea', flowers dark violet to purple. The cultivar 'Van-Houttei' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Salvia splendens Salvia splendens, the scarlet sage or tropical sage, is a tender herbaceous perennial native to Brazil, growing at elevation where it is warm year-round"
"Savagnin blanc mutated into a form with pink-skinned berries, called Red Traminer or Savagnin rose. Galet believed that a musqué ('muscat-like') mutation in the Red Traminer/Savagnin rose then led to the extra-aromatic Gewürztraminer, although in Germany these names are all regarded as synonymous. Given that the wine made from 'Gewürztraminer' in Germany can be much less aromatic than that made in Alsace, some of the German vines may well be misidentified Savagnin rose. The Baden vineyard of Durbach claims its own type of Red Traminer called Durbacher Clevner (not to be confused with ""Klevner"", an Austrian synonym for Pinot blanc)."
"Asparagus setaceus Asparagus setaceus, commonly known as common asparagus fern, lace fern, climbing asparagus, or ferny asparagus, is a climbing plant in the genus ""Asparagus"". Despite its common name, the plant is not a true fern, but has leaves that resemble one. It is native to Southern Africa, and is grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant. It has become an invasive species in several locations where it has been introduced. Originally described by the German botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth, its specific name is derived from the Latin ""saeta"" ""hair"" or ""bristle"", hence ""hairy"". Some authorities use the name ""A. plumosus"""
"oxypetalum"", ""Meconopsis integrifolia"", ""Ramonda nathaliae"", ""Rhododendron camtschaticum"", ""Rhododendron ferrugineum"", ""Salix hylematica"", ""Soldanella alpina"", ""Teucrium montanum"", ""Thalictrum aquilegiifolium"", ""Thymus doerfleri"", and ""Tulipa montana"". Rennsteiggarten Oberhof The Rennsteiggarten Oberhof (7 hectares) is a botanical garden specializing in mountain flora, located in Rennsteig at Am Pfanntalskopf 3, Oberhof, Thuringia, Germany. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1970 on the grounds of a former quarry at an elevation of 868 meters on the Pfanntalskopf. In 1972 the Cultural Federation and University of Jena agreed to scientific support, and plantings began with material"
"malt grains and infused in boiling water to produce a coffee-like but caffeine-free hot beverage, ""Altreier Kaffee"" (""Altrei coffee""). Interesting not only from a cultural and historical but also from a botanical standpoint, since 2006 a local initiative is re-establishing ""L. pilosus"" cultivation in the Altrei region to revive this culinary specialty. Lupinus pilosus Lupinus pilosus, commonly known as blue lupine, (, ) is a species of flowering plant from the family Fabaceae which is endemic to Israel where it is found in Mediterranean scrubland. It has a long stem and long legume. The species blooms from February to May."
"Sageretia Sageretia (mock buckthorn or sageretia) is a genus of about 35 species of shrubs and small trees in the family Rhamnaceae, native to southern and eastern Asia and northeast Africa. They have small green leaves 1.5–4 cm long, and a leathery multicoloured trunk. The flowers are small and inconspicuous; the fruit is a small edible drupe 1 cm diameter. The genus is named after the French botanist Auguste Sageret. The leaves are sometimes used as a substitute for tea in China, and the fruit are edible, though not an important crop. ""S. theezans"", from southern China, is a popular"
"resistant to -10°C, but some, usually from higher elevation areas, are hardy enough to withstand light and brief freezes and live outdoors year round in areas with mild winters The genus ""Tillandsia"" was named by Carl Linnaeus after the Swedish physician and botanist Dr. Elias Tillandz (originally Tillander) (1640–1693). Some common types of ""Tillandsia"" include ""air plant"", ""ball moss"" (""T. recurvata"") and ""Spanish moss"", the latter referring to ""T. usneoides"" in particular. The genus contains around 650 species, where 635 are considered epiphytic are traditionally divided into seven subgenera: Tillandsia Tillandsia is a genus of around 650 species of evergreen,"
"hens. Trout and carp are traditionally bred in aquaculture in many villages. Most agricultural enterprises are large cooperatives, founded as Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft during the GDR period, and meat producers are part of multinational companies. Traditional private peasant agriculture is an exception, as is organic farming. Thuringia's only wine-growing district is situated around Bad Sulza north of Weimar and Jena along the Ilm and Saale valley. Its production is marketed as Saale-Unstrut wines. Forestry plays an important role in Thuringia because 32% of the Thuringian territory is forested. The most common trees are spruce, pine and beech. There are many wood"
"parts of eastern North America, they have become invasive species. Koelreuteria Koelreuteria is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southern and eastern Asia. They are medium-sized deciduous trees growing to tall, with spirally arranged pinnate or bipinnate leaves. The flowers are small and yellow, produced in large branched panicles long. The fruit is a three-lobed inflated papery capsule 3–6 cm long, containing several hard nut-like seeds 5–10 mm diameter. The genus was named after Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, from Karlsruhe, Germany, by Erich Laxmann. Koelreuteria are commonly used as focal points in landscape"
"he divided into eight varieties, including ""T. kavaiensis"" var. ""dipyrena"". From 1864 to 1868, Berthold Carl Seemann published a series of articles in the ""Journal of Botany, British and Foreign"", all of which were entitled ""Revision of the natural order Hederaceae"". In 1868, he published a book by the same title. He divided what later became Hawaiian ""Tetraplasandra"" into four genera. He maintained ""Tetraplasandra"" for ""T. hawaiensis"" and created two new genera; ""Triplasandra"", for Asa Gray's ""Gastonia oahuensis"" and ""Dipanax"" for Mann's ""Tetraplasandra dipyrena"". He placed Mann's ""Tetraplasandra kavaiensis"" in ""Agalma"", a genus that Friedrich A.W. Miquel had established in"
"in northern climates, they require bletting to eat. Mespilus Mespilus, commonly called medlar, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae containing the single species ""Mespilus germanica"" of southwest Asia. And in some countries in Balkan, especially in Albanian regions. A second proposed species, ""Mespilus canescens"", discovered in North America in 1990, proved to be a hybrid between ""M. germanica"" and one or more species of hawthorn, and is properly known as ×""Crataemespilus canescens"". ""Mespilus"" forms deciduous large shrubs to small trees growing up to tall. The fruit is a matte brown pome. ""Mespilus germanica"" is apparently"
"climate change, the Huglin index will continue to rise over coming decades, and the suitability of an area for a specific grape variety will continue to change. With increases in the heat sum, the variety of vines in the northern growing areas of Europe has already changed. Varieties that used to be cultivated only in wine-growing regions in the south have already gained a certain amount of significance in cultivation in Austria and Germany. The varieties Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah are already being successfully planted and cultivated in warmer regions of Austria. They were included in the"
"the Mittelhaardt. Toward the end of the 20th century, plantings of Riesling began to increase in the south as well as an increase in plantings of red wine varieties such as Spätburgunder (Pinot noir), Portugieser and Dornfelder. The wines of the Palatinate are traditionally dry (""trocken"") with a full body, though some examples of sweet Portugieser still exist. The red wines often reach alcohol levels of 13% and go through malolactic fermentation and spend some time in oak. Since the 1990s there has been increased production in the sparkling wine (Sekt) made from Riesling. The most cultivated grape varieties, by"