Earth and Space News: Are Snowdrop Flowers Why Yogurt Appears on Elementary's Dirty Laundry?

Summary: Snowdrop flowers perhaps accumulate bacteria for yogurt that somebody other than its owner ate on Elementary's Dirty Laundry Jan. 3, 2013.

Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) leaves yield Lactobacillus bulgaricus GLB44, which is used in European yogurt-making; snowdrops at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, southwest London, South East England; Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, 11:39: Emőke Dénes, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Snowdrop flowers perhaps assemble the bacteria that assist in assuring that yogurt appears for two hotel co-workers to argue about on Elementary procedural drama television series episode Dirty Laundry Jan. 3, 2013.

Director John David Coles and writers Liz Friedman and Christopher Silber bring Estella's (Shirley Roeca) and Marisol's (Natalie Toro) bickering into the first season's 11th episode. Can the contents of a yogurt container that communicates not at all or poorly ownership be consumed by other than the co-worker that carried it in? Unbalanced loads in one of the hotel's washing machines disrupt Estella defending her devouring an employee-area yogurt that she did not drive into work that day.

Perhaps Marisol's yogurt, eaten by Estella, exists because of the one plant-expedited, yogurt-engendering bacterium extracted by Stamen Grigorov (Oct. 27, 1878-Oct. 27, 1945) from snowdrop flowers.

Only snowdrop flower leaves furnish Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (from Latin lac, "milk," bacillus, "wand" and bulgaricus, "Bulgarian," for Max Delbrück, Sept. 4, 1906-March 9, 1981.

Scientifically named Galanthus nivalis (from Greek γάλα, "milk" and άνθος, "flower" and Latin nivālīs, "snowy") gets propagated by germinating January- through May-flowered seeds or dividing bulbs. Honey-scented snowdrop flowers have ant-dispersed, fleshy-tailed white seeds and three white 0.59- to 0.98-inch (1.5- to 2.5-centimeter) by 0.24- to 0.43-inch (0.6- to 1.1-centimeter) outer tepals. Three green-blotched, 0.28- to 0.47-inch- (7- to 12-millimeter-) long, 0.16- to 0.24-inch- (4- to 6-millimeter-) wide inner tepals include 0.12- to 0.19-inch (3- to 5-millimeter) anthers.

Bee-pollinated, self-pollinated snowdrops juggle 0.24- to 0.32-inch (6- to 8-millimeter) styles and 0.19- to 0.24-inch (5- to 6-millimeter) by 0.12- to 0.16-inch (3- to 4-millimeter) ovaries.

Snowdrop flowers, near-threatened agro-industrially, keep their 1.97- to 5.91-inch (5- to 15-centimeter) by 0.12- to 0.28-inch (0.3- to 0.7-centimeter) leaves green in summer and autumnally yellow.

Snowdrop flowers locate their 0.39-inch (1-centimeter) diameter, 4-plus-inch- (10.16-plus-centimeter-) high pedicel (from Latin pedīcellus, "little foot") between two to three basal, flat-veined, gray-green, narrow-strapped, parallel-veined leaves. Four- to 9-inch (10.16- to 22.86-centimeter) heights and 2- to 6-inch (5.08- to 15.24-centimeter) spreads mature from 0.59-plus-inch (1.5-plus-centimeter) by 1-plus-inch (2.54-plus-centimeter) 3-inch- (7.62-centimeter-) deep bulbs. United States Department of Agriculture zones 3 through 9 note snowdrop hardiness to 25 and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 9.4 and minus 40 degrees Celsius).

Snowdrop flowers occur in moist, organic, shaded summer and fall, sunny spring, well-drained soils up through 1,640.42-foot (500-meter) and even 7,591.86-foot (2,314-meter) altitudes above sea level.

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia and Czechia possess native European populations of the Amaryllidaceae (from Greek ἀμαρύσσω, "I shine" and Latin -āceae, "-like") family member.

European snowdrop flowers queue up natively in France, Georgia, Grrmany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Ontario reveal respectively European and North American naturalized snowdrop flowers. Naturalized snowdrop flowers spread into Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) perhaps thinks of tending honey-scented snowdrop flowers for turning out homemade honey from pollinating bees and yogurt from lactic acid bacteria.

Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) investigate the murder of a high-end Manhattan hotel's manager in the laundry in CBS Elementary's Dirty Laundry (season 1 episode 11): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Jan. 3, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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