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light and dark, though incapable of forming images. Many are pollinators of flowers that themselves are crepuscular, such as evening primroses, and some...

small edible fruits. They may be eaten immature and green, or mature and deep red. The young shoots and leaves may also be eaten as greens. Older botanical...

grown for its fruit used as a vegetable, similar and related to the cucumber. The fruit is typically 4-8 cm in length, 2-4 cm in diameter, and covered with...

eaten as a leaf vegetable and are more nutritious than the fruit. The highly variable fruit of the plant is eaten both raw and cooked and is becoming more...

solanaceous plant bearing a fruit of the same name, commonly used as a vegetable in cooking. It is closely related to the tomato and potato and is native to southern...

part of the fruit. Although most people are familiar only with the fruit, which in culinary terms is a vegetable, the root, stem, seeds, and leaves are...

West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. Common names for the plant include fluted gourd, fluted pumpkin, iroko, and ugu. Ugwu is also a...

Assam, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. It is a good source of carbohydrates, vitamin A, and vitamin C. It also contains major nutrients and trace elements (magnesium...

Sierra Leone, and Tanzania, and as a wild or cultivated pot herb in Cameroon, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Hawaii and other Pacific...

Fresh fruit are best consumed on the day of picking, and do not keep well. They are best eaten when the fruit is slightly soft, having aroma, and heated...

colour, and A. melanocarpa 'Viking' and 'Nero', selected for larger fruit suitable for jam-making. Juice from these berries is astringent and not sweet...

Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, is a type of long, slender fruit which tastes like a cucumber and looks somewhat like a cucumber inside. It is actually a...

restaurants and nutritionists however use and recommend these alternate names to help increase acceptance and consumption of this delicacy and exceptionally...

species are J. regia for timber and nuts, and J. nigra for timber. Both species have similar cultivation requirements and are widely grown in temperate zones...

from Florida and southern Alabama through the West Indies and from Mexico through Central America and South America through Brazil (Little and others 1974)...

Hubbard and Banana) and some large pumpkins, and numerous smaller varieties such as Buttercup and Mooregold. On this species the peduncle (fruit stem) is...

for dishes such as ogbono soup. The nuts may also be pressed for vegetable oil. The fruit is a large drupe, with fibrous flesh. The trees yield a hard wood...

Zohary and Hopf argue that sesame was first domesticated in India. They cite morphological and cytogenetic affinities between domesticated sesame and the...

to planing and polishing. Sal resin is burned as incense in Hindu ceremonies, and sal seeds and fruit are a source of lamp oil and vegetable fat. Sal is...

crop in the densely populated south and southwestern parts of Ethiopia. The root is the main edible portion as its fruit is not edible. Each plant takes four...