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Xylem sap from the tree trunks is made into maple sugar and maple syrup. Taro The edible portion is the underground stem (corm). Wasabi In addition to its edible stem, the leaves and rhizomes of the plant are edible. It has an interesting spicy taste. White pine The sweet inner bark (phloem) was eaten by Native Americans.
Nautilus (from Latin nautilus 'paper nautilus', from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος nautílos 'little sailor') [3] are the ancient pelagic marine mollusc species of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. This is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and the suborder Nautilina .
Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all species known as "cockles" "oysters", "mussels", etc., are closely related. Ark clams , including: Blood cockle; Senilia senilis; Many species of true mussels, family Mytilidae, including: Blue mussels. Blue mussel; California mussel; Mediterranean mussel; Mytilus ...
The Nautilida constitute a large and diverse order of generally coiled nautiloid cephalopods that began in the mid Paleozoic and continues to the present with a single family, the Nautilidae which includes two genera, Nautilus and Allonautilus, with six species.
You know, people are looking at a lot of different things.” Kennedy, he said, is “not looking to, you know, reinvent the wheel. But when you look at the numbers, we really don’t have a very ...
The chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral, although it is not a golden spiral. The shell exhibits countershading, being light on the bottom and dark on top. This ...
From May 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John H. Fitzpatrick joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 14.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 4.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Daniel Vasella joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -10.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.