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Devil's club or Devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) [2] is a large understory shrub native to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, but also disjunct on islands in Lake Superior. It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in noxious and irritating spines.
Aralia spinosa, commonly known as devil's walking stick, is a woody species of plant in the genus Aralia of the family Araliaceae. It is native to eastern North America . The various names refer to the viciously sharp, spiny stems, petioles and even leaf midribs.
Dracophyllum traversii, commonly known as mountain neinei, grass tree, and pineapple tree is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is a deciduous tree (or, in some cases, a shrub) endemic to New Zealand. It reaches a height of 0.2–13 m (0.66–42.65 ft) and has leaves which form tufts at the end of its branches.
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Toothache tree may refer to one of several American trees: Aralia spinosa [ 1 ] (also called angelica tree, devil's walking stick, prickly ash ) Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash ) or Zanthoxylum americanum ( Northern prickly ash ).
The most famous investor was James Dole, who moved to Hawaii in 1899 [44] and started a 24-hectare (60-acre) pineapple plantation in 1900 which would grow into the Dole Food Company. [45] Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapples on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively, and the Maui Pineapple Company began cultivation on Maui in ...
A pineapple pit requires a huge amount of fresh manure, and manual labour to maintain the temperature of the central trench. [6] The introduction of steam ships meant that the pineapple pit became obsolete, as it was cheaper to transport fruit from overseas than to grow them under special conditions in the UK. In 2012 the cost of growing a ...
Elephant-ear shape seedpods. Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as conacaste, guanacaste, caro caro, devil's ear tree, monkey-ear tree, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil and Venezuela. [2]