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Flower of India and Vietnam. The roots of Nelumbo nucifera are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom, while the leaves float on top of the water...

the family Portulacaceae, which can reach 40 cm in height. It is a native of India and the Middle East, but is naturalised elsewhere and in some regions is...

and occasionaly mealy bug. Plant Cultures: Betelnut botany and history Photos of The fruit of Areca catechu Template:Commonscat Template:Palm-stub...

Black tea is oxided for the longest period of time which produces the darkest of the teas. Several varieties of C. sinensis are used for tea production:...

have irregular teeth similar to those of oak leaves. The flowers are one of the most distinctive characteristics of Datura stramonium: they are trumpet-shaped...

as a psychotropic drug. Probably indigenous to India, Acorus calamus is now found across Europe, much of Asia, Australia, and southern Canada/Northern USA...

tropical Africa, India and the Caribbean. Mucuna pruriens seed powder contains high concentrations of levodopa, a direct precursor of the neurotransmitter...

photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add. photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture...

species of the genus Siraitia are: S. siamensis from Thailand, S. sikkimensis and S. silomaradjae from India, and S. taiwaniana from the Republic of China...

Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (eds.) (2000). A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. University of California Press. pp. 256–257. ISBN 0-520-21980-5.  "Countering...

intrigue to gain control of Run island, then the only source of nutmegs. At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch gained control of Run in exchange for...

strain of E. coli.”...” The Lure and Lore of Spices Quote: “If the appearance of spices were to reflect their real importance in the history of the world...

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...

photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add. photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture...

Chrysomelidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 94 (1): 162-166. 2001. Entom. Soc.of America. [3] Mittempergher, L. & Santini, A. (2004). The History of Elm Breeding...

is the lingua franca of the cuisines of the Indian subcontinent. Cumin was also used heavily in ancient Roman cuisine. Cultivation of cumin requires a long...

An offshoot of the Fountain of Life was the legend of the Fountain of Youth, which Juan Ponce de León sought in Florida. From the Fountain of Youth one can...

raising the lower part of stem and pulling the roots out of the ground, then removing them from the base of the plant . The upper parts of the stems with the...

Ficus auriculata Fruits on the trunk of a Ficus in India Fruits on the trunk of a Ficus in India Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan...

as the relative abundance of charred grains found in archaeological sites, hypothesize that the cultivation of millets was of greater prevalence in prehistory...