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An article from the American Society of Agronomy refers to a study done by Monica Mendez et al., in which the researchers irrigated plants with water containing triclosan and months later found it in all edible parts of tomato and onion plants. [38] Triclosan is found to kill a wide spectrum of bacteria, and the researchers are also concerned ...
List of given names in Telugu. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. S. Telugu-language surnames (27 P) T. Telugu given ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
The tree and the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods are commonly known in English as kapok, a Malay-derived name which originally applied to Bombax ceiba, a native of tropical Asia. [3] In Spanish-speaking countries the tree is commonly known as " ceiba " and in French-speaking countries as fromager .
Mussaenda is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to the African and Asian tropics and subtropics. ... Mussaenda wrayi King, J. Asiat ...
The local Urdu and Punjabi names for the tree is sumbal. The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that the tree was at that time known as Bombax malabaricum, its common names included "Simool Tree" or "Malabar Silk-cotton Tree of India", and that the calyx of the flower-bud was eaten as a vegetable in India. [5] [page needed]
In this lore, the old man and his wife, the old woman, were tricked by a group of monkeys to plant the Colocasia plants in an unusual way. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The old couple did according to how they were advised by the monkeys, peeling off the best tubers of the plants, then boiling them in a pot until softened and after cooling them off ...
Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as mahogany, [3] Honduran mahogany, [3] Honduras mahogany, [4] or big-leaf mahogany [5] is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is one of three species that yields genuine mahogany timber ( Swietenia ), the others being Swietenia mahagoni and Swietenia humilis .