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Wasabia wasabi (Maxim.) Makino. Wasabi (Japanese: ワサビ, わさび, or 山葵, pronounced [waꜜsabi]) or Japanese horseradish (Eutrema japonicum[3] syn. Wasabia japonica) [4] is a plant of the family Brassicaceae, which also includes horseradish and mustard in other genera. The plant is native to Japan, the Russian Far East [1] including ...
Watercress is a rapidly growing perennial plant native to Europe and Asia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Watercress and many of its relatives, such as garden cress, mustard, radish, and wasabi, are noteworthy for their piquant flavors. The hollow stems of watercress float in water.
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower. These petals attract pollinators, and reproductive organs that produce gametophytes, which in ...
Rorippa rusticana(G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.) Godr. Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. Cochlearia armoracia) is a perennial plant of the family Brassicaceae (which also includes mustard, wasabi, broccoli, cabbage, and radish). It is a root vegetable, cultivated and used worldwide as a spice and as a condiment.
A pea is a most commonly green, occasionally golden yellow, [ 6 ] or infrequently purple [ 7 ] pod-shaped vegetable, widely grown as a cool-season vegetable crop. The seeds may be planted as soon as the soil temperature reaches 10 °C (50 °F), with the plants growing best at temperatures of 13 to 18 °C (55 to 64 °F).
Hikimi Wasabi ( 匹見ワサビ) is a variety of wasabi cultivated in Hikimi Town (now part of Masuda City ), Shimane Prefecture, Japan . A replica of an old document, allegedly written by the feudal lord Mōri Terumoto (1553–1625). The document is preserved at Myōrinji temple in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and describes how Masuda Motonaga, the ...
Biodiversity of Albania. The Albanian Alps represent a major geomorphological part of Albania. It is the southernmost continuation of the Dinaric Alps, which extend along the Adriatic Sea from the Julian Alps in the northwest down to the Albanian Alps in the southeast. The Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea coastlines are dotted with many ...
Oregano is a woody perennial plant, growing 20–80 cm (8–31 in) tall, with opposite leaves 1–4 cm (1⁄2 – 1+1⁄2 in) long. The flowers which can be white, pink or light purple, are 3–4 mm (1⁄8 – 3⁄16 in) long, and produced in erect spikes in summer. It is sometimes called wild marjoram, while its close relative O. majorana is ...