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The Abcs of Things Green

The ABCs of Things Green Algae, alligator, artichoke, asparagus, aphids, Andradite, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Buffalo Treehopper, and beans, Cuckoo Wasp, Cabbage, cucumber, Common Green Darner, and celery Dog Day Cicada, Delphinium flowers diopside and dioptase, (rocks), Emeralds, eyes, endive, evergreen trees, Emerald Ash Borer, Epidote Ferns, Forests, Frogs, Fungus, Fork-tailed Bush Katydids, and fushite Green Macaw, Green Jay, green onions, green bottles and boxes Honeydew melons, Habanera chilies, and Hellebore, Indian peas, Irish moss, Iceberg lettuce, Ivy, and Iguanas, Jade vine, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Jade, and the Jolly Green Giant Kale kelp, katydid, kiwi fruit, kohlrabi, and the Keel Billed Toucan’s bill, Leeks, lemons, limes, leaf hoppers, leafy greens, and Leprechauns, Mint jelly, Magnolia, Green Jumping Spider, Morrisonite Jasper, Malachite New Zealand spinach, Napa cabbage, the Nile River, and Nephrite Jade, Olives, Ostrich fern, okra, Oak leaf lettuce, olive Sparrow and onion, Praying Mantis, peas, potato, parsnip, Peach-faced Lovebird, and Prehnite, Question is, What green thing starts with Q? Some quarks do. Runner-beans, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Rose quartz, and Rue, Saddleback Caterpillars, Southern Emerald Moths, snow peas, Serpentine Tadpole, Turtle, Turf, Turnip greens, Turaco, and Toxic Torbenite, Unripe bananas and Ugli fruit (both are green then orange) Velvet Beans, Vidalia Onions, Vegetable leaves, Varovite, and Varisite White-winged Parakeet, watercress, winter purslane, and wild leek Xigua melon is a yummy treat Yellow onions, Yellow-chevroned parakeet, Yellow-green vireo, and yarrow, Zuchini is the last, but not the least of the ABC’s of Things Green.

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