Crocosmia. Crocosmia is a small genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae. It is native to the grasslands of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. They can be evergreen or deciduous perennials that grow from basal underground corms. The basal, alternate leaves are cauline and distichous.
Largest US online retailers: Amazon, Dell, Office Depot, Staples, HPDirect. Only 9 US retailers boasted yearly online sales of $1 bln and above, Internet Retailer says. Amazon continues as the Internet's largest retailer with 2004 sales of $6.
Most of the worldâs largest retailers positioned in the top half of the list moved very little in their rankings, if at all. Wal-Mart is still, by far, the largest retailer in the world. Franceâs Carrefour is still #2. Germanyâs Metro AG overtook the United Kingdomâs Tesco chain and claimed the #3 position on the list. The top retailers in the top countries managed to maintain relative stability on the global retailing stage.