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Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.
This tree is useful for nitrogen fixation, and it is often cultivated for forage, as an ornamental garden plant or urban tree, and as a medicinal plant. For example, the young leaves can be cooked and eaten. The raw seeds are toxic, but may be eaten when cooked. [6] In Singapore, the species forms part of the diet of local Raffles' banded ...
Abrus precatorius is commonly known as jequirity, [3] Crab's eye, [3] or rosary pea, [3] paternoster pea, [4] love pea, [4] precatory pea or bean, [3] prayer bead, [4] John Crow Bead, [5] coral bead, [4] red-bead vine, [4] country licorice, [4] Indian licorice, [3] wild licorice, [4] Jamaica wild licorice, [4] olinda (In Sri Lanka/Sinhala), [6] kundumani (in Tamil), [7] coondrimany, [4] gidee ...
Elaiosomes (Ancient Greek: ἔλαιον élaion "oil" + σόμα sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species. The elaiosome is rich in lipids and proteins, and may be variously shaped. Many plants have elaiosomes that attract ants, which take the seed to their nest and feed the elaiosome to their ...
The seeds (jumbie beans) can be used as beads. Leucaena planted for firewood on an area of 120 km 2 (46 sq mi) will yield an energy equivalent of 1 million barrels of oil per year. Anthelmintic medicines are made from extracts of Leucaena seeds in Sumatra, Indonesia. [5] Some species (namely Leucaena leucocephala) have edible fruits (as unripe ...
Melia azedarach, commonly known as the chinaberry tree, [3] pride of India, [4] bead-tree, Cape lilac, [3] syringa berrytree, [3] Persian lilac, [3] Indian lilac, or white cedar, [5] is a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, that is native to Indomalaya and Australasia.
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The seeds are used as beads to make malas (rosaries), known as Bodhichitta malas, [2] Buddha chitta mala, or Bodhi seed malas, used in Tibetan Buddhist worship. These are highly valued with a mala of 108 beads costing up to 80 thousand Nepalese Rupees. However the price of the mala varies according to the diameter and the face of the seed.