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The name 'durian' is derived from the Malay word duri ('thorn'), a reference to the numerous prickly thorns on its rind, combined with the noun-building suffix -an. [5] [6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the alternate spelling durion was first used in a 1588 translation of The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof by the Spanish explorer Juan ...
A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, 'little apple of death'. This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world: it has milky-white sap that contains numerous toxins and can cause blistering. The sap is present in every part of the tree—bark, leaves, and fruit. [5] [6]
Therefore, it is also called "starvation fruit". Despite its strong smell and bitter taste, the fruit was nevertheless eaten as a famine food, [16] and, in some Pacific Islands, even as a staple food, either raw or cooked. [17] Southeast Asians and Aboriginal Australians consume fresh fruit with salt or cook it with curry. [18]
Strychnos nux-vomica, the strychnine tree, [2] also known as nux vomica, poison fruit, semen strychnos, and quaker buttons, is a deciduous tree native to India and to southeast Asia. It is a medium-sized tree in the family Loganiaceae that grows in open habitats. Its leaves are ovate and 5–9 centimetres (2–3.5 in) in size. [3]
Alicia Silverstone is alive and well after taking a bite of a poisonous fruit she picked from a stranger’s garden in London.. The Clueless actress shared a health update on social media after ...
Even if these watermelons aren't actually fermenting, Dr. Steve Reiners, a professor of horticulture in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell, says a “bacterial or fungal/mold ...
The wild form of M. germanica is mostly a thorny, more shrub-like than tree-like plant, which is between 1.5 and 4 m (5 and 13 ft) high. In the cultivated forms, the thorns are usually reduced or even completely absent. [4] In general, the medlar is a small, deciduous tree with an overhanging, almost round crown. The trunk is irregularly shaped ...
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