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1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Mauritia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia...

and is eaten throughout much of Europe and Asia. It can be used fresh as a salad, or cooked like spinach, and because of its mucilaginous quality it is...

1995:606–607 Handbook of Flowering Volume 6 of CRC Handbook of Flowering ISBN 9780849339165 Brazil. Described by Carauta & Diaz (2002): pp.38–39 Brazil, Paraguay and...

A botanical garden of Kitchener's Island, Aswan University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal...

photo 2 photo 3 A~Z of Barbados Heritage, 2003, Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN 0333920686 Fruits of warm climates Texas grapefruit history, TexaSweet. Retrieved...

drinking of hot mate (no data were collected on drinkers of cold mate). Given the influence of the temperature of water, as well as the lack of complete...

Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (2005) comprehensive, multidimensional history of citrus industry in California Train, John. Oranges...

varieties of the beet were grown primarily for most of its history, though these lost much of their popularity much later following the introduction of spinach...

university study in Brazil of guaraná extract showed a platelet aggregation decrease of up to 37% of control values and a decrease of platelet thromboxane...

subfamilies, more than 800 genera, and hundreds of thousands of species and cultivars. The taxonomy of this family is in constant flux, as DNA studies...

wild in the south of Brazil. While there are several wild Manihot species, all varieties of M. esculenta are cultigens. World production of cassava root was...

vegetation of Brazil List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil List of plants of Cerrado vegetation...

develop one at a time at the base of the leaf. They are borne on a slender peduncle, originating from the base of the back of the leaf. The long dorsal sepal...

(B. Seemanii Hookers Journ. of Bet. v. 76, 1853). The odour alone of guaco, has been said to cause, in snakes, a state of stupor; and Humboldt, who observed...

majority of its recipes. Edward Gibbon wrote, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that pepper was "a favourite ingredient of the most...

South American jungle vine of the family Malpighiaceae. It is used to prepare Ayahuasca, a decoction that has a long history of entheogenic uses as a medicine...

six times the amount of sugar beet produced). As of the year 2005, the world's largest producer of sugar cane by far is Brazil. Uses of sugar cane include...

colonization of the Americas forever changed the lives, bloodlines and cultures of the peoples of the continent. The Population history of American indigenous...

Kola nut (Cola) is a genus of about 125 species of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa, classified in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae...

Bela Hubbard, settler of Randolph Township, Ohio in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Many other sources list an alternate history. These sources state that...