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State Food type Food name Image Year & citation Alabama: State cookie Yellowhammer cookie: 2023 [1]: State nut: Pecan: 1982 [2]: State fruit: Blackberry: 2004 [3]: State tree fruit
A number of pressed vegetable oils are either not edible, or not used as an edible oil. The fruit of the amur cork tree Castor beans are the source of castor oil. Astrocaryum vulgare (Tucumã) oil. Amur cork tree fruit oil, pressed from the fruit of the Phellodendron amurense. It has been studied for insecticidal use. [184] [185]
Prunus avium, sweet cherry P. cerasus, sour cherry Germersdorfer variety cherry tree in blossom. Prunus subg.Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries [1] and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula; some species with ...
Rosehips, or fruit of various wild Rosa species. Sand Cherry; Fruit of select species of Aralia, also usually known as Spikenards, such as Racemosa. Not all species have safely edible fruit. fruits of the Gaultheria plants. Procumbens fruit is known as Teaberry, whereas Shallon is known as Salal and Hispidula is called Moxie Plum. Ogeechee ...
Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some surprising plant varieties with a savory flavor are also considered fruits due to their seeded ...
Native Americans ate the fruit. [23] Edible raw, the fruit is also made into jelly, and the juice can be used as a drink mixer, hence the common name 'rum cherry'. [28] Prunus serotina timber is valuable; perhaps the premier cabinetry timber of the U.S., traded as "cherry". High quality cherry timber is known for its strong orange hues, tight ...
The term pulse is used for the seeds of plants from the Fabaceae family (legumes), such as beans, pea, lentil and chickpea. Pulses supply proteins and form chief source in vegetarian food. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen in root nodules - produced with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.
The evolution of fruits with a berry-like pericarp has been studied in various flowering plant families. Repeated transitions between fleshy and dry pericarps have been demonstrated regularly. One well-studied family is the Solanaceae , because of the commercial importance of fruit such as tomatoes, bell peppers, and eggplants or aubergines.