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Landscape with quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), Cachilaya [clarification needed], Bolivia, Province La Paz, Lake Titicaca seen in background.Three crops: maize, wheat, and rice, account for approximately 50% of the world's consumption of calories and protein, [6] and about 95% of the world's food needs are provided by just 30 species of plants. [7]
Curcuma zanthorrhiza, known as temulawak, Java ginger, Javanese ginger, or Javanese turmeric is a plant species, belonging to the ginger family. [2] It is known in Javanese as temulawak, in Sundanese as koneng gede (or big yellow) and in Madurese as temu labak. [2]
Lysimachia latifolia (broadleaf starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America.. Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Gambier extract is used or has been used as a catechu for chewing with areca and betel, for tanning and dyeing, and as herbal medicine.Gambier extract was also used by native people as a medical treatment or prevention of diseases that were believed to be spread by the now obsolete medical theory of miasma.
Betel (Piper betle) is a species of flowering plant in the pepper family Piperaceae, native to Southeast Asia.It is an evergreen, dioecious [1] vine, with glossy heart-shaped leaves and white catkins.
The following species are included in the genus Balanites: [3]. Balanites aegyptiaca Delile; Balanites angolensis (Welw.) Mildbr. & Schltr. Balanites glabra Mildbr. & Schltr. ...
Dryopteris filix-mas, the male fern, [1] is a common fern of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, native to much of Europe, Asia, and North America. It favours damp shaded areas in the understory of woodlands, but also shady places on hedge-banks, and rocks, and screes.