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Ambrosia ilicifolia is a small, matted shrub under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height. Its stiff, straight branches are green, glandular, and leafy when young, and light gray and leafless when older. The holly-like leaves are leathery but brittle, oval-shaped to rounded, and edged with spine-tipped teeth. They are green, veiny and sticky with resin.
Ambrosia ambrosioides (Cav.) W.W.Payne – ambrosia-leaf bur ragweed, big bursage, ambrosia bursage; Ambrosia arborescens Mill. – marko, altamisa; Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. – common ragweed, short ragweed, Roman wormwood; Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. Ambrosia bidentata Michx. – lanceleaf ragweed, southern ragweed; Ambrosia ...
Ambrosia is an American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States. [1] Most ambrosia recipes contain canned (often sweetened) or fresh pineapple , canned mandarin orange slices or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows , [ 2 ] and coconut . [ 3 ]
Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar.The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; [6] though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia that Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", [7] and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, [8] so that when she ...
The use of the word "cocktail" in the name does not mean that it contains alcohol, but refers to the secondary definition: " an appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood". In the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned "fruit cocktail" must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears , grapes, cherries ...
Somewhat similar in appearance to Ambrosia ilicifolia, A. ilicifolia has sessile leaves with a reticulate pattern of veins, and the marginal teeth developed into short spines. [2] This ragweed can be found in sandy washes and other disturbed areas such as roadsides, and is sometimes seen growing in rock crevices. [2]
Common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, is a widespread invasive species, and can become a noxious weed, that has naturalized in Europe; temperate Asia and the Indian subcontinent; temperate northern and southern Africa and Macaronesia; Oceania in Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii; and Southwestern North America in California and the ...
Ambrosia, a fictional war-torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar; Ambrosia, a fictional vaccine to the pandemic known as the "Gray Death" in the computer game Deus Ex; Ambrosia, a fictional lost kingdom in the film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva; Ambrosia, a fictional drug in the novel Library of Souls