Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The name "durian" is derived from the Malay word duri (thorn), a reference to the numerous prickly thorns on the fruit's rind, combined with the noun-building suffix -an. [5] [6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used in English in 1588, in a translation of Juan González de Mendoza's Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China. [5]
Durio zibethinus is the most common tree species in the genus Durio that are known as durian and have edible fruit also known as durian.. As with most other durian species, the edible flesh emits a distinctive odour that is strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact.
Black garden ants (Lasius niger) eating a durian at a market in Pulilan, Bulacan.Note also the fuzzy white scale insect in the center.. Durians are an agricultural product affected by many plant pathogens and pests.
Durio graveolens, sometimes called the red-fleshed durian, [7] orange-fleshed durian, or yellow durian, [8] is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae. [9] It is one of six species of durian named by Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari. [10]
[3] [4] Durio s.s. and Boschia have indistinguishable vegetative characteristics and many shared floral characteristics. The crucial difference between the two is that anther locules open by apical pores in Boschia and by longitudinal slits in Durio s.s. [ 5 ] These two genera form a clade that is sister to another genus in the tribe Durioneae ...
All you have to do is drive around Louisville this time of year. If you roll down the car windows and close your eyes, entire parts of town smell like fully ripe tube socks.
Aluminum-based antiperspirants have gotten a bad rap over the last few years because some small studies have suggested potential links between using the products and developing breast cancer. But ...
“I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad sign,” Ramakrishnan says, just odorants reaching the olfactory nerve that wouldn’t have otherwise. As a result, “you smell stuff you don’t ...