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(Natural History 20.120). Widely used in Greece, archaeobotanical finds are common at many prehistoric sites. In historic contexts, seeds have been retrieved...

associated with agriculture in the Old World since early times. It has most of the characteristics of a successful weed of agriculture. These include an...

poppy straw" are listed in Schedule II of the United States' Controlled Substances Act, a DEA license may be required to grow poppies in ornamental or display...

aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO). The Governing Body met for the first time in Madrid in June 2006. Some believe...

severe Zen gardens of temples. In Europe, gardening revived in Languedoc and the Ile-de-France in the 13th century, and in the Italian villa gardens of the...

– 6 cm long and 1 mm in broad, that grow vegetatively in chain-like fashion (pendant) to form hanging structures up to 6 m in in length. The plant has...

and is common in disturbed habitats. Partly because of these characteristics, it is considered a noxious weed in 21 U.S. states and in countries such...

grains. In some culinary traditions, especially those of Latin America, Italy, and Turkey dry rice grains are fried in oil before cooking in water. In some...

dating to 6790±90 BCE. By the Bronze Age, they were known in Italy and Greece. In classical Greece, they were called erébinthos, eaten both as a staple and...

the ball-and-paddle toy, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae. Currently, only prickly pears are included in this genus of about 200 species distributed...

rapidly throw up sucker-like shoots. In Greece, grafting the cultivated tree on the wild tree is a common practice. In Italy, embryonic buds, which form small...

ruderal sites. Ragweed was far less common in the Eastern United States before dense European settlement/agriculture in the late 1700s. There are 41 species...

1-fld., in a close cylindrical spike-like panicle; glumes 2,'persistent, keeled, short-awned; lemma shorter, delicate, awnless. — -Species 10, in temperate...

Phloem of pine trees has been used in Finland as a substitute food in times of famine, and even in good years in the northeast, where supplies of phloem...

flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Roman World, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean...

Cyclopedia of Horticulture Phalaris (old Greek name for a grass). Gramineae. Stout hardy ornamental grasses. Spikelets 1-fld., in heads or spike-like panicles; glumes'boat-shaped...

cultivation began in historic times, and was diffused by the Greeks in Italy and Greece and was carried by the Arabs west as far as Spain and Morocco. In all these...

Melissa (Greek for 'honey bee'). This herb can be easy to cultivate in United States Department of Agriculture Plant Hardiness Zones 4 to 9. In zone 4,...

limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 23°30' (23.5°) N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern...

productivity in Western agriculture (see agricultural machinery). Airplanes, helicopters, trucks, tractors, and combines are used in Western agriculture for seeding...