Green fresh fruit can be eaten directly or used in cooking. Extracts from plants are useful for the treatment of skin diseases. important obstacles include, among others, raw fruit, dried fruit, leaves, and roots. In raw fruit there are chlorogenin, sisalogenone, torvogenin, and vitamin A. The dried fruit has 0.1% solasonin. The leaves are neochlorogenine and panicolugenin. While at the root there is a jurubine content. Other sources say, takokak fruit is able to act as an antioxidant. Some chemicals contained in takokak are proven to protect body tissues from the negative effects of free radicals. In Medicinal Plants: Quality Herbal Products for Healthy Living (Vimala, 1999) states, takokak has a high superoxide cleansing activity, which is above 70%.
Unusual black slug found in garden. All l can say is it’s a black slug.
Unusual black slug found in garden. All l can say is it’s a black slug.
Bismarck palms are easy to grow in the right environment as they are adaptable to a wide range of soils and prefer to have good drainage as the Bismarck does not like to have root rot. The Bismarck palm can adapt to either acidic or alkaline soil and prefers to be watered directly into the root system or sprayed through the palm heart. When planting the Bismarck palm make sure to not to cover up any part of the trunk, as this will lead to problems as the Bismarck palm is susceptible to be eaten by microorganisms that live naturally in soil and other mediums
Croton, custard (Codiaeum variegatum) is a popular ornamental plant in the form of shrubs with very varied leaf shapes and colors.
A variety of cultivars have been developed with a variety of colors from green, yellow, orange, red, purple, and mixtures thereof. The shape of the leaves also vary: elongated, oval, wavy edges, "stranded" strands, and so on. Croton is suitable for planting in open areas, although it is possible to be an indoor ornamental plant
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Magnolia is one of the genera of flowering plants that are widely known for their beautiful flowers or scent. The Magnolia clan shows the characteristics of primitive evolution. The flower jewelry is not arranged in a layered circle, like most flowers, but arranged in a spiral. The fossils are up to 20 million years old, so it is known that Magnolia evolved earlier than bees. The flowers are not designed to be pollinated by bees but beetles.
The common leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) is a cathemeral, ground-dwellinglizard naturally found in the highlands of Asia and throughout Afghanistan, to parts of northern India. Unlike most geckos, all species in the genus possess movable eyelids, and cannot climb up smooth surfaces, considering they do not have toe pads like most geckos. It has become a well-established pet in many places.
The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is a species of tortoise, which inhabits the southern edge of the Sahara desert, in Africa. It is the third-largest species of tortoise in the world, the largest species of mainland tortoise, and the only extant species in the genus Centrochelys.
Acalypha rhomboidea (common three-seeded mercury,[1] rhombic three-seeded-mercury,[2] rhomboid mercury, copperleaf,[3]rhombic copper-leaf, three-seeded-mercury,[4] ricinelle rhomboide,[5] diamond threeseed mercury; syn. Acalypha urticifoliaRaf., Acalypha virginica L. forma intermediaMillsp., Acalypha virginica L. var. rhombifoliaRiddell,[6] Acalypha virginica L. var. rhomboidea (Raf.) Cooperr.[1]) is a plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
Arecaceae is a botanical family of annual plants. Coconut is known by all residents of the tropical islands as a multi-purpose plant. Likewise palm and areca nut. Its use covers almost all parts of the plant, but mainly its fruit.
a type of plant, mostly found wild as a weed, a member of the Asteraceae tribe. Originally from tropical America, glaciers are usually found in places that are dry, sunny
Sapodilla, (Manilkara zapota), tropical evergreen tree (family Sapotaceae) and its distinctive fruit, native to southern Mexico, Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Though of no great commercial importance in any part of the world, the sapodilla is much appreciated in many tropical and subtropical areas, where it is eaten fresh. The milky latex from the tree trunk was once important in the chewing-gum industry as the chief source of chicle; it was also used as chewing gum by the Aztecs. Elaborately carved lintels of sapodilla wood, some 1,000 years old, are still seen in some Mayan ruinis
As a cultivated species, the sapodilla tree is medium-sized and slow-growing. The reddish wood is hard and durable. The leaves, 5–12.5 cm (2–5 inches) long, are glossy and light green in colour and ovate to elliptic in outline; the flowers are small and inconspicuous. The fruit is spheroid to ovoid in shape, rusty brown on the surface, and roughly 5–10 cm (2–4 inches) in diameter. Its sweet flavour has been compared to a combination of pears and brown sugar. When the fruit is ripe, the seeds—two to five in number, shiny black, and the size of flattened beans—are surrounded by translucent, yellowish brown, juicy flesh. When the fruit is immature, its flesh contains both tannin and milky latex and is unpalatable. Propagation is usually by means of seed, but superior trees can be reproduced by grafting.
Plumeria (/pluːˈmɛriə/) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.[1] Most species are deciduous shrubs or small trees. The species variously are indigenous to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and as far south as Brazil and north as Florida, but are grown as cosmopolitanornamentals in warm regions.[2][3] Common names for plants in the genus vary widely according to region, variety, and whim, but frangipani or variations on that theme are the most common. Plumeria is also used as a common name, especially in horticultural circles.[4]