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For another healthy Halloween fruit creation inspired by candy corn, make these white, orange, and yellow fruit parfaits. They consist of a layer of whipped cream or yogurt, mandarin oranges, and ...
The Mendacity Tree: A tree that grows when lies are whispered to it, and bears hallucinogenic fruit, in Frances Hardinge's novel The Lie Tree. Plant Men of Barsoom: A race of humanoid plants from the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs; Re-annual plants: Plants in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series which flower and grow before their seed ...
Solanum linnaeanum is a nightshade species known as devil's apple and, in some places where it is introduced, apple of Sodom. The latter name is also used for other nightshades and entirely different plants elsewhere, in particular the poisonous milkweed Calotropis procera .
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple [2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
Stenocereus eruca, commonly known as the creeping devil, is a member of the family Cactaceae. It is one of the most distinctive cacti, a member of the relatively small genus Stenocereus . It is endemic to the central Pacific coast of Baja California Sur , and is found only on sandy soils, where it forms massive colonies.
Thumbtack-like Tribulus terrestris burs are a hazard to bare feet and bicycle tires.. After the flower blooms, a fruit develops that easily falls apart into five burs. [3] The burs are hard and bear two to four sharp spines, [3] 10 mm (0.39 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) broad point-to-point.
Jo Denman and Tessa Parry-Wingfield formed a close friendship after they were both diagnosed with a rare form of cancer which resulted in them each having an eye removed
Lawmakers unveiled a stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday night to prevent a shutdown that funds the government through March 14 and includes $100 billion in disaster relief and other key provisions.