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Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. He is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchis Abenteuer (Lurchi's adventures). They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.
The outside of the fruit is a pink-red, rough-textured soft shell. Lychee seeds contain methylene cyclopropyl glycine which has caused hypoglycemia associated with outbreaks of encephalopathy in undernourished Indian and Vietnamese children who consumed lychee fruit.
Salamanders range in size from the minute salamanders, with a total length of 27 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in), including the tail, to the Chinese giant salamander which reaches 1.8 m (6 ft) and weighs up to 65 kg (145 lb).
[1] [4] [12] [13] Even in West Africa this is a rare spice [citation needed], and typically only five or six dried fruit are added to a dish. [5] In herbal medicine, it is used to treat tumors and wounds. [4] The name of the spice is derived from Igbo, a language in Nigeria, where the spice is grown and harvested on a commercial basis ...
A salamander unharmed in the fire (Bestiary, 14th century) The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which once, like many real creatures, often was suppositiously ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors, as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries.
The mature fruit is a black schizocarp 6.5–8 mm long, which splits into two single-seeded mericarps, revealing a stalk (the carpophore) that runs between them. Each mericarp has 3 ridges and numerous vittae (oil tubes), which exude a pungent oil which smells of capsicum or diesel. [ 2 ]
Luschan's salamander or Lycian salamander (Lyciasalamandra luschani) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae. It is found in the southwestern Anatolia in Turkey and adjacent Greece , in the island of Kastellorizo and its satellites.
The fruit is a two-chambered, usually fleshy and juicy berry which can be red, orange, yellow, or black. It may have few seeds or many. It may have few seeds or many. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Most Lycium have fleshy, red berries with over 10 seeds, but a few American taxa have hard fruits with two seeds.