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  2. List of food plants native to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    fruits of the Gaultheria plants. Procumbens fruit is known as Teaberry, whereas Shallon is known as Salal and Hispidula is called Moxie Plum. Ogeechee Fruit. Most prized species of Tupelo for edibility, though all native Tupelo species have edible fruit. Gum Bully Olives, aka American Olives; Beautyberry; Buffaloberry

  3. Lancetilla Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    Several administrative and research buildings mostly preserve architectural style of the 1930s and 1940s, when the Garden was owned by the banana company United Fruit Company. Herbarium with specimens from all over the area is located here. There is also a cafeteria with restaurant and accommodation for up to 30 people.

  4. M. Levin & Co, Inc - Wikipedia

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    He ripened bananas in cellars he rented around Dock Street. In the 1920s, Michael Levin had grown his banana distribution so much that the Atlantic Fruit Company, a major banana supplier at the time, turned over its Philadelphia banana-ripening business to Levin. The ripening deal helped cement M. Levin's place in the banana-ripening world. [7]

  5. International Tropical Fruits Network - Wikipedia

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    The Sub-Group on Tropical Fruits (SGTF) was established during the 15th session of the Intergovernmental Group on Banana in Rome in May 1997. [9] During the 1st session of SGTF in Pattaya, Thailand in May 1998, it was agreed that TFNet should be a global independent network, with possibility of regional networks.

  6. Tropical horticulture - Wikipedia

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    Tropical horticulture includes plants such as perennial woody plants (arboriculture), ornamentals (floriculture), vegetables (olericulture), and fruits including grapes (viticulture). The origin of many of these crops is not in the tropics but in temperate zones. Their adoption to tropical climatic conditions is an objective of breeding. Many ...

  7. List of largest seeds - Wikipedia

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    This is the largest of all temperate (non-tropical) seeds. Poisonous. Calatola Calatola costaricensis: Metteniusaceae: 3 inches long by two inches wide. 7 cm long by 5 cm wide. [30] Provision tree, Guiana chestnut Pachira aquatica: Kapok family (Bombacaceae) Squarish seeds to 2.4 inches on a side. Squarish seeds to 6.1 cm. on a side. [31 ...

  8. Tropical agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Plants faced conflicting evolutionary pressures: the need to attract pollinators and seed dispensers, and to minimize the damage caused by herbivores. Many (tropical) plants use toxins to protect themselves. Cassava, one of the most important tropical food crops, produces cyanide upon ingestion unless processed to remove/reduce the cyanide ...

  9. Musaceae - Wikipedia

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    Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, [3] placed in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees.

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