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There are over 100 names for this fruit across different regions, including great morinda, Indian mulberry, noni, beach mulberry, vomit fruit, awl tree, and rotten cheese fruit. [ 5 ] The pungent odour of the fresh fruit has made it a famine food in most regions, but it remains a staple food among some cultures and is used in traditional medicine.
The name manchineel (sometimes spelled manchioneel or manchineal), as well as the specific epithet mancinella, are from Spanish manzanilla ('little apple'), from the superficial resemblance of its fruit and leaves to those of an apple tree. It is also called beach apple. [5] A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, 'little apple ...
Leaves smell like potatoes when crushed. The flowers have five petals and are usually white or purple with yellow centers, though there is a blue variant that resembles the tomato flower. The fruits are berries that resemble tomatoes. The immature fruit is dark green with light green stripes, turning yellow and wrinkled as it matures.
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 ...
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 ...
Rafflesia (/ r ə ˈ f l iː z (i) ə,-ˈ f l iː ʒ (i) ə, r æ-/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world.
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 ...
After her fans expressed their concern, Silverstone posted a follow-up message letting everyone know she was OK. “Alive and well! Don’t worry…