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Paper-barked (Syzygium ligneum) satinash leaves have black-green uppersides.

The afore-heralded foliage has light-, pale-, white-green undersides to its glossy upper surfaces.

馬拉靈貓 is the Malay civet in Cantonese.

Its Romanized form when interpreted from Cantonese to English is maa laai ling maau.

For those asking about the common name dilly tree, online information apprises us of the afore-allowed moniker as affectionate nickname, as endearingly shortened form for sapodilla fruit and tree!

The Friendship Doll Exchange of 1927 appeared among the international-goodwill programs of the Committee on World Friendship Among Children (CWFC).

All CWFC programs configured children raising funds, personalizing gifts and sending abroad those gifts as cultural understanding- and peace-promoting components.

North-Italian, Venetian nicknames for Benedetta, additionally to the below-apprised Betta, are the following:
Bene;
Beni;
Deda;
Deta;
Detta.

For those asking about public aquariums with short-toothed cardinalfish displays and information, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America avails Apogonidae species in its Wild-Reef and Wonder-of-Water exhibits.

The Wild-Reef gallery of the Shedd Aquarium considers short-toothed cardinalfishes in its species list.

Murpe-vine (Melodinus bacellianus) leaves are black-green.

The afore-considered foliage configures simply in its rusty-haired under- and upper-sides and in its sword shape.

馬來靈貓 is the Malay civet in the Chinese language.

Its Romanized form when interpreted from Chinese to English is Mǎ lái líng māo.

For those asking about the common name bully tree, online information apprises us of a linguistic misapplication of the Spanish-Caribbean name balata for Sapotaceae-family trees.

The term balatá arises from the leafing, flowering, fruiting species Manilkara bidentata, whose Anglicization avails us the common names bulletwood and, mysteriously, cow-tree.

Both above-considered species. balata (Manilkara bidentata) and chiku (Manilkara zapota), configure hard wood and milky latex sap.

For those asking about the common-ness or the uniqueness of the friendship-doll exchange program, that campaign existed only between the United States and Japan through the Friendship Doll Exchange of 1927.

Thank you, Frank, for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Do we know which Indo-European mythology -- for instance, Irish? -- kindled all other Indo-European vampire mythologies?

Irish mythology is part of Indo-European mythology and so there are shared elements in the two mythologies. The influence of the druids plays a little understood element in Irish mythologies

For those asking about crossbreeding between ring-tailed and short-toothed cardinalfishes, there are no dead or live specimens to disprove or prove any actuality of such hybridizing happening or not happening.

Other north-Italian, Venetian nicknames for Elisabetta are as follows:
Bettina;
Eli;
Elisa;
Etta;
Lisa;
Lisabetta.

The term sawo also exists as a non-English, a non-Nahuatl, a non-Spanish appellation for chiku truits and trees.

The afore-given word guards Indonesian and Malaysian origins even as chiku trees got generated throughout southeast Asia.