April 15th, 2008
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Macadamia
Habitat: The macadamia nut, native to the coastal rain forest areas of southern and northern New South Wales in Australia, is considered to be the worlds finest dessert nut.
Description:
Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the [...]
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December 22nd, 2007
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Botanical Name: Carya illinoinensis
Family: Juglandaceae
Other Names:Illinoensis,it is a species of hickory,
Habitat : Native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky [...]
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September 1st, 2007
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Botanical Name: Prunus domestica (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Rosaceae
Synonym: Plum Tree.
Part Used: Fruit, dried.
Habitat: Asia and parts of Europe, best from Bordeaux.
Description: A small tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with numerous spreading branches without spines, young branches smooth, leaves small, alternate on longish petioles, provided with [...]
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August 31st, 2007
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Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of value as a human food.
Stone [...]
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August 30th, 2007
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Botanical Name: Prunus Armeniaca (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Rosaceae
Synonyms: Apricock. Armeniaca vulgaris.
Parts Used: Kernels, oil.
Habitat: Although formerly supposed to come from Armenia, where it was long cultivated,hence the name Armeniaca, there is now little doubt that its original habitat [...]
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August 29th, 2007
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BotanicalName : Juglans nigra (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Juglandaceae
Synonyms-:–Carya. Jupiter’s Nuts.
(Dutch) Walnoot.
(Greek) Carya persica. Carya basilike.
(Roman) Nux persica. Nux regia.
Habitat: According to Dr. Royle Juglans regia extends from Greece and Asia Minor, over Lebanon and Persia, probably all along the Hindu-Kush to the Himalayas. It [...]
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August 20th, 2007
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var pubId=827; var siteId=835; var kadId=401; var kadwidth=336; var kadheight=280;Botanical Name:Anacardium occidentale;Scintific Name:Anacardium curatellifolium
Family : Anacardiaceae.
Portuguese Name: Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree).
Common names include: Cajueiro, cashew, cashu, casho, acajuiba, caju, acajou, acaju, acajaiba, alcayoiba, anacarde, anacardier, anacardo, cacajuil, cajou, gajus, [...]
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October 24th, 2006
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Indian Name:Behada.
Botanical Name:Terminalia belerica.
Other Name:Bahara,Baheda
Introduction:The fruit is the well-known commercial myrobalan, called belliric myrobalan. It contains all the components of chebulic myrobalan (q.v.), except corilagin and chebulic acid, and can be used as a substitute for myrobalans in tanning. The [...]
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October 22nd, 2006
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Botanical Name: Terminalia Chabula
Local Names: Hadrida,Harar,Chebulic myroblan,Black myroblan,Harada.
Partsd Used : Fruits.
Habitat: Grows Throughout India
Description: Terminalia Chebula is a tree with a rounded crown and spreading branches. Its principal constituents are chebulagic, chebulinic acid and corilagin. Its fruits have laxative, stomachic, tonic and alterative [...]
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September 17th, 2006
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Highlights of the Round-table Discussion
A group of the country’s leading scientists in the areas of nutrition, epidemiology, anthropology, public health, and food science met in a rare round-table conference to share their knowledge and to discuss what we know and what we [...]
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September 4th, 2006
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Family: N.O. Rosaceae
Almond is called: Lawz in Arabic Baadaam in Farsi and Urdu
Etymology:
The word ‘almond’ comes from Old French almande or alemande, late Latin amandola, derived through a form amingdola from the Greek aµ??da?? (cf Amygdala), an almond. The al- for a- may be [...]
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