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NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the number of people reporting trouble sleeping rises, hotels and resorts around the globe are offering rituals to help ease guests into sweeter dreams. Anantara Kihavah Villas (kihavah-maldives.anantara.com) in the Maldives now offers a Slumber Guru - an in-villa service ensuring guests enjoy the perfect night's sleep. After dining at the resort's signature restaurant, Sea.Fire.Salt.Sky., the Slumber Guru escorts guests to their villa...

LEHI, Utah, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- XANGO, LLC, recognized category creator as the first company to bring mangosteen to a global market, kicked off its 10(th)-anniversary celebration with a gathering of several thousand company distributors in Las Vegas this past weekend. Reflecting on the millions of lives that the company has touched in its first decade, XANGO founders looked forward with an aggressive growth strategy to reach millions more in the next decade. Coinciding...

Corpse Flower, "Morticia" Intrigues Guests with Two-Day Bloom and Powerful Stench. GALVESTON ISLAND, Texas, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The odor of rotting flesh has never smelled so sweet as "Morticia," the Giant Corpse Flower officially started to bloom in the evening June 13 at the Moody Gardens Rainforest Pyramid. With a short blooming period of 2 to 4 days, visitors have the rare opportunity to see and smell the Amorphophallus titanum. Native only to Sumatra,...

New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics reveals that the Malaysian parasitic plant Rafflesia cantleyi, with its 50cm diameter flowers, has 'stolen' genes from its host Tetrastigma rafflesiae. Analysis of these genes shows that their functions range from respiration to metabolism, and that some of them have even replaced the parasites own gene activity. Vertical gene transfer is that between parents and their offspring, while horizontal gene...

Towering 4 1/2 Ft. Bloom, "Morticia" Expected to Cause a Big Stink at Rainforest Pyramid GALVESTON ISLAND, Texas, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Staff at the Moody Gardens Rainforest Pyramid are watching closely and holding their noses in anticipation of the extremely rare opportunity to see a Amorphophallus titanium, or Giant Corpse Flower bloom. Native only to Sumatra, Indonesia, it is not only rare in its native habitat, it is extremely rare in cultivation. Fewer than...

Visitors to Thailand can experience a gourmet holiday with a difference in the beautiful and unspoilt provinces along the country’s southeast coast, where the award winning eco resort Faasai Resort and Spa is celebrating the harvest season. On May 4, 2012 Chanthaburi will kick-off its annual tropical fruit festival featuring the bounty of the land such as tropical fruit, local food delicacies, herbs and flowers. Chanthaburi (PRWEB) April 27, 2012 The festival lasts about ten days and;...

New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky. The new species, collected on two small islands off Madagascar, brings to about 170 the number of species in the genus Amorphophallus, which is Greek for "misshapen penis" because of the...

The Social Network Life-Sciences.net features the latest scientific publications in the Forestry Sciences. The most recently featured articles deal with wood-based molding bonded with citric acid and radial variations in the anatomical characteristics and density of the wood of Acacia mangium of five different provenances in Indonesia. These as well as all other articles are now available on a new mobile website. (PRWEB) January 04, 2012 The Forestry Sciences Social Network...

The Online Fruit Magazine Pomology.org has added the category Pomelo to its collection of crops. This section comprises resources to this ancient type of citrus, resembling grapefruits with thick rind, pulp color ranging from yellow to pink and red, but sweeter flesh. (PRWEB) December 12, 2011 Pomology is the science and technology of cultivating and producing fruits. Within this discipline, the Online Fruit Magazine Pomology.org provides a wide range of resources related to temperate,...

Tropical Storm Banyan's center may still be at sea, but NASA satellite data today shows the western edge of the storm already over the southern Philippines. Banyan strengthened overnight into a tropical storm. It was born yesterday, Oct. 10, 2011 as Tropical Depression 23W. The Philippines have also given Banyan a name, and call it Ramon. At 10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 11, Banyan's (Ramon) maximum sustained winds are near 35 knots (40 mph/65 kmh), and Banyan is moving to the west-northwest near...