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It is cultivated in warm and humid regions for its oleaginous seeds (producing between 20 and 200 kg of seeds annually per tree, depending on maturity), flowers and wood. The fat (solid at ambient temperature) is used for the care of the skin, to manufacture soap or detergents, and as a vegetable butter. It can also be used as a fuel oil. The ...
Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, [2] columbine) is a genus of about 130 species [1] of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher elevations throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals [3] of their flowers.
The production of seeds is very large, but they are small in size and bland in flavor. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The seeds are edible by humans and chickens, but should be cooked before being consumed by people. [ 9 ] [ 7 ] Caragana arborescens contains the non proteinogenic amino acid L-canavanine and may store from nearly 6 to 13% L- canavanine by dry weight.
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It blooms in very early [3] to mid spring, [8] producing hanging male catkins4 to 8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, and clusters of 2–5 tiny female flowers enclosed in the protective bracts of a bud, with their red styles sticking out at the tip. [3] [9] The male catkins develop in the fall and remain over the winter.
Melaleuca (/ ˌ m ɛ l ə ˈ lj uː k ə /) is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of Leptospermum).
The bark is smooth when young, becoming deeply fissured with whitish, cracked bark on old trees. The 3–7 cm (1.2–2.8 in) long leaves , are cordate (heart-shaped) with an elongated tip, with white veins and coarse crenate teeth along the sides, glabrous to hairy, and often stained with milky resin. [ 2 ]
The two New Zealand species are large shrubs or trees, from 4–20 m (13–66 ft) tall. Both trees can be epiphytic or hemiepiphytic. The young tree often colonizes amongst other epiphytes like Collospermum and Astelia high in the forest canopy, before growing aerial roots down the trunk of its host. Upon contact with the ground the roots can ...