1 At birth, a blue whale calf is about the size of a hippopotamus. 2  A baby whale can drink up to 100 gallons of milk every day during its first seven months of life. 3  With that kind of diet, it should come as no surprise that a baby whale can gain up to 200 pounds a day.
The botanical name for common foxglove is Digitalis purpurea. Foxglove was brought to the United States by European migrants centuries ago. The plant has tube-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and grows to about five feet tall, with many large, thick, hairy leaves at the base of a tall stem. The variety grown in gardens varies in color from white to a deep rose. Digitalis is one of the most well known medicines derived from a plant. Today scientists are searching in jungles and tropical rain forests for other plants that may contain substances to cure cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, and other serious diseases.
Digitalis (/ËdÉªdÊÉ¨ËteÉªlÉ¨s/ or /ËdÉªdÊÉ¨ËtaelÉ¨s/) ËdÉªdÊÉ¨ËtÃ¦lÉ¨s is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous, perennials, shrubs and biennials commonly called. Foxgloves this genus was traditionally placed in the figwort Family, scrophulariaceae but recent phylogenetic research has placed it in the much enlarged Family. plantaginaceaether fatal accidents involve children drinking the water in a vase containing digitalis plants. Drying does not reduce the toxicity of the plant. The plant is toxic to animals, including all classes of livestock and poultry, as well as felines and canines.