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The Wild Cashew or Espavé (Anacardium excelsum; syn. Anacardium rhinocarpus) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The tree is common...

grain amaranth began in the US in the 1970s. By the end of the 1970s, a few thousand acres were being cultivated. Much of the grain currently grown is...

Pumpkins have male and female flowers, the latter distinguished by the small ovary at the base of the petals. The bright, colorful flowers are short-lived...

thiamine. The Brazil nut, in addition, is known as one of the world's most radioactive foods, due to the tree's accumulation of radium from the soil into...

subsequently spread across the Americas. Squash was one of the "Three Sisters" planted by Native Americans. The Three Sisters were the three main indigenous...

out of the ground, then removing them from the base of the plant . The upper parts of the stems with the leaves are plucked off before harvest. Cassava...

The jícama (pronounced "hee-kuh-muh"; from Spanish, derived from Nahuatl xicamatl), also known as the Mexican Potato or Mexican Turnip, is the name of...

infection with the smut fungus Ustilago esculenta. The fungus prevents the plant from flowering, so the crop is propagated asexually, the infection being...

Pumpkins have male and female flowers, the latter distinguished by the small ovary at the base of the petals. The bright, colorful flowers are short-lived...

attract females. Without the orchid, the bees cannot mate, and therefore the lack of bees means the fruit do not get pollinated. The Brazil Nut tree's yellow...

is also the symbol of the Vegan Society. 1. The first stage of the flower formation 2. The flower is still covered, but faces the sun 3. The flower is...

potato flowers. The pepino dulce is deemed to be parthenocarpic but a much heavier crop results from self-pollination or cross-pollination. The plants will...

follow the Bering Strait theory agree that most indigenous peoples of the Americas descended from people who probably migrated from Siberia across the Bering...

Othello Maverick Another popular mottled bean is the anasazi, from the Basque Country of northern Spain. The small, white navy bean, also called pea bean or...

machine cuts the cane at the base of the stalk, separates the cane from its leaves, and deposits the cane into a cart while blowing the cut leaves back onto...

LeConte) The susceptibility of maize to the European corn borer, and the resulting large crop losses, led to the development of transgenic expressing the Bacillus...

to all of these variables, fruit from the same plants (and growers) can vary a great deal from week to week, going from incredibly tasty to bland or sour...

folding cream into the stewed fruit. For dessert purposes, however, the fruit must be fully ripe. The ease with which gooseberries propagate from cuttings depends...

flattened seeds about 3/4 inch long in the center of the fruit. Miscellaneous: Chicle, the latex obtained from the bark of the tree has been used as a chewing...

olives are picked from the middle of October to the end of November and Black olives are collected from the middle of November to the end of January or...