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The Golden Starfruit Tree (Vietnamese: Ăn khế trả vàng, lit. 'Eating starfruit and paying with gold' or simply Vietnamese: Cây khế, lit. 'The starfruit tree') is a Vietnamese folktale. It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and his rich older brother who ...
Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae.It is native to the Isthmus of Panama, where it was domesticated. [3] It has spread to the Greater Antilles and the West Indies and is now grown throughout the tropics, including Southeast Asia. [4]
Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a fictional duo appearing in Northern Vietnam's popular folk tales. The two characters are typically nominally citizens under the early French colonial period, but stories may place them in earlier dynasties or later. The stories fall under the genre of Vietnamese comic or joke stories (vi:Truyện cười Việt Nam).
The tree was introduced to the United States in 1880, when the United States Minister to Japan John A. Bingham arranged for six cam sành fruits to be shipped from Saigon, Cochinchina to Dr. H. S. Magee, a nurseryman in Riverside, California. In 1882, Magee sent two seedlings and budwood to J. C. Stovin in Winter Park, Florida. [5] [6]
Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The tale of watermelons is also one of Vietnamese fairy tales adapted by Cổ tích Việt Nam (lit. ' Vietnamese fairy tales ' ), a VHS series directed by Nguyễn Minh Chung . [ 8 ] The episode was released in 1995, starring Quang Hải as Mai An Tiêm.
Damasonium is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae, commonly known as starfruit and by the older name thrumwort. The genus has a subcosmopolitan but very patchy distribution.
Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia. Described by Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1803, it was known as Helichrysum bracteatum for many years before being transferred to a new genus Xerochrysum in 1990.