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It is rarely cultivated but trees are left when land is being cleared. Still a traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known fruit has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care. [1] In Shona, the fruit are referred to as mazhanje, and in Chichewa masuku.
Blatjang is a South African chutney made of dried fruit (usually apricots) and chillies cooked in vinegar and a staple in most South African households, served as a condiment with South African meat dishes like bobotie and braai. [1]
Ceiba is a word from the Taíno language meaning "boat" because Taínos use the wood to build their dugout canoes. [4] [5] Ceiba species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species, including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix ceibae, which feeds exclusively on the genus.
A descendant of the Latin word into a Romance language, which may have been French jujube or medieval Latin jujuba, in turn gave rise to the common English jujube. [5] This name is not related to jojoba , which is a loan from Spanish jojoba , itself borrowed from hohohwi , the name of that plant in the Oʼodham language .
Myrica rubra is an evergreen tree that grows to a height of up to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. Leaves are leathery, bare, elliptic-obovate to oval lanceolate in shape, wedge-shaped at the base and rounded to pointed or tapered at the apex, margin is serrated or serrated in the upper half, with a length of 5–14 cm (2.0–5. ...
Mongongo nut, with US penny for scale. Mongongo nuts are a staple diet in some areas, most notably among the San people of northern Botswana and Namibia.Archaeological evidence has shown that they have been consumed by the San communities for centuries. [5]
Jeju benjul (벤줄) and Korean byeonggyul (병귤) are cognates.They share the same hanja characters: byeong (甁, "bottle") and gyul (橘, "citrus fruit").. Tamnaji, a chronicle of Jeju Island published in 1653 by a Joseon dynasty governor, Yi Wonjin, mentions byeonggyul using the name byeolgyul (Korean: 별귤; Hanja: 別橘, "peculiar citrus").
Alibertia patinoi, commonly known as borojó, is a small (2-5m), dioecious tropical rainforest tree, one of the few edible fruit bearing species in the Rubiaceae family. . Borojó, native to the world's wettest lowlands (the Chocó–Darién moist forests ecoregion), grows in the Chocó Department of northwestern Colombia and in the Esmeraldas Province of northwestern Ec