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In Madagascar, the plant is known as brèdes mafane, and is a main ingredient in the national dish of the island, called Romazava. Both fresh and cooked leaves are used in dishes such as stews like Tacacá in northern Brazil, especially in the state of Pará. They are combined with chilis and garlic to add flavor and vitamins to other foods. [9]
The red flowers remain on plants for several days before they abort. [6] Weight of a single detached flower was 15.6 g (0.55 oz) when white, 12.7 g (0.45 oz) when pink and 11.0 g (0.39 oz) when red. Anthocyanin content of red flowers was three times
Acacia pycnantha, most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae. It grows to a height of 8 metres (26 feet) and has phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks) instead of true leaves. The profuse fragrant, golden flowers appear in late winter and spring, followed by long seed pods.
A spike, usually pendulous, in which the mostly small flower s are unisexual and without a conspicuous perianth, e.g. in willows, poplars, oaks, and casuarinas. The individual flowers often have scaly bract s and are generally wind-pollinated. Catkins are usually shed as a unit. caudate Having a narrow, tail-like appendage or tip, e.g. a drip tip.
Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family. Because of their fast growth, twining habit, attractive flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are excellent vines for creating summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus keeping the building cooler and reducing heating and cooling ...
A traditional food plant in Africa, amaranth has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care. [62] In Bantu regions of Uganda and western Kenya, it is known as doodo or litoto. [63] It is also known among the Kalenjin as a drought crop (chepkerta).
Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, [2] wild chervil, [2] wild beaked parsley, Queen Anne's lace or keck, [2] [3] is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). [4] It is also sometimes called mother-die (especially in the UK), a name that is also applied to the common hawthorn. It is ...
Annual plants die completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, and then new plants grow from seed. [28] Herbaceous perennial and biennial plants may have stems that die at the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant survive under or close to the ground from season to season (for biennials, until ...