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Wood woad: A creature resembling big, burly, bestial men made entirely of wood and bark bearing, but without foliage [29] Yellow musk creeper : [ 22 ] A creeping plant that drains the intelligence of its victims, killing them or turning them into "yellow musk zombies " under the plant's control [ 24 ]
The fruits are short, flat pods about 6 cm long with a single seed attached at the end. [5] The timber obtained from the tree is the hardest and heaviest (among timbers from the trees found in India), is durable and termite resistant. [5] [6] The leaves are shed in April and the new leaves emerge in early May. [5]
Burning of the Character Big, on Mount Myōjō, in the Hakone Mountains The Character Big, on Mount Nyoi, in Kyoto. The Burning of the Character "Big" (大), also known as Daimonjiyaki (Japanese: 大文字焼き) or Daimonji Festival is the Japanese Buddhist ritual of burning wood in the character "Big" (大), typically in the mountain, on the last day of the 4-day Bon Festival to send back to ...
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
They can be 10–20 centimetres (4–8 inches) in length and 3.5–6.5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in width. Abiu may have several flowering periods a year, with potential for both flowers and fruit on the tree at one time. The development time from flower to ripe fruit is about 3 months. [4] The main crop season varies by climate.
The stems and fruits also have many spines or "glochids" about 1 mm (0.04 in) long [10] that can detach and stick in the skin. There are two kinds of stems or "cladodes": long plagiotropic, bearing flowers at the ends and falling off after a few years, and long orthotropic, primarily serving for support and transport and staying on the plant.
The fruit is large, 15–25 cm (6–10 in) in diameter, [5] usually weighing 1–2 kilograms (2–4 pounds). It has a thicker rind than a grapefruit, and is divided into 11 to 18 segments. The flesh tastes like mild grapefruit, with a little of its common bitterness (the grapefruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and the orange).
Female cones of C. equisetifolia. Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine [3] [4] [5] and native pine, [6] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.