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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

throughout history in various cultures. Very early specimens of gourd shells discovered (for example, in Peru) indicate the use of gourds as means of recording...

study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture is a major element of human history, as agricultural...

movement's emphasis on use of sustainable yield of natural resources and preservation of wilderness areas to include preservation of biodiversity. Some say...

The disruption of this trade by the rise of other Mediterranean powers such as the Mameluks Sultans and the Ottoman Empire was one of many factors that...