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[2] Then, Mbok Srini returned to her shack and planted the cucumber seed in an orchard behind her house. In a matter of months, a big, golden cucumber grew from the seed. When Mbok Srini harvested the golden cucumber and cut it open, behold, there was a beautiful baby girl inside it.
Pandanus conoideus is a plant in the Pandanus family from New Guinea.Its fruit is eaten in Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia.The fruit has several names: marata, marita in Papua New Guinea local language, kuansu in Dani of Wamena [1] [2] or buah merah ("red fruit") in common Indonesian.
Watermelon fruit is 91% water, contains 6% sugars, and is low in fat (table). [29] In a 100-gram (3 + 1 ⁄ 2-ounce) serving, watermelon fruit supplies 125 kilojoules (30 kilocalories) of food energy and low amounts of essential nutrients (see table). Only vitamin C is present in appreciable content at 10% of the Daily Value (table).
The fruit is a drupe 5–7 cm (2– 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 3–5.5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) broad containing a single seed; it is green at first, then yellows and finally turns to red when ripe. The entire fruit is corky and light so it can be dispersed by water, but it can also be spread by bats that eat them. [8]
The characteristic aroma of pandan is caused by the aroma compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, found in the lower epidermal papillae; [5] the compound gives white bread, jasmine rice, and basmati rice (as well as bread flowers Vallaris glabra) their typical smell. [6] Though the plant is unknown in the wild, it is widely cultivated.
Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom (A is for alligator and armadillo, B is for butterfly, C is for cat, etc.) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words.
Sago palms (Metroxylon sagu) in New Guinea Peeling and pounding a segment of Sago Palm stem to produce an edible starch.Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Sago (/ ˈ s eɪ ɡ oʊ /) is a starch extracted from the pith, or spongy core tissue, of various tropical palm stems, especially those of Metroxylon sagu. [1]
[2] The fruit of the tree is a woody, glabrous, deep purple pod. Each Pod contains around three to nine round-shaped seeds. [7] The pods are formed falcate or twisted in a wide spiral. The seed coat of a young seed shows a yellow-green colour and turns dark brown during ripening. Then the ripe fruit dehisces along the ventral suture. [6]