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Euphorbia tirucalli (commonly known as Indian tree spurge, naked lady, pencil tree, pencil cactus, fire stick, aveloz or milk bush [3]) is a tree native to Africa that grows in semi-arid tropical climates. A hydrocarbon plant, it produces a poisonous latex that can cause temporary blindness. [4]
A series of aerial photographs taken around 1947 reveal that the Karajarri people practised fire-stick farming in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia for thousands of years, until they left the desert in the 1950s and 1960s. When fires swept the desert in the decades following their departure, they caused widespread destruction, "losing ...
Astelia alpina called pineapple grass, silver astelia, or perching lily is a commonly found species in alpine and subalpine areas of Tasmania and the Australian Alps. [1] It is a perennial herb that typically dominates its environment by growing in dense clusters, called mats, in alpine bogs. [2]
He bought dry land at Hallikoppa village during 1972-73 and started growing pineapple, which is the turning point in his life. [2] He has adopted scientific methods in growing other horticultural crops like coconut, areca, pepper, g-9 banana, venilla etc. and he has grown some of the crops including pineapple as inter cultivation crop.
This is a list of countries by pineapple production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for pineapples in 2022 was 29,361,138 metric tonnes , an increase of 2.3% from 28,714,479 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
Apple stock jumped Monday, proving itself resilient to the widespread AI stock sell-off Monday prompted by the release of Chinese firm DeepSeek’s new cost-effective artificial intelligence model.
The pageant that crowned Belgium's Top Woman focused on the inner beauty and body positivity of the contestants. "True beauty does not come from a perfect body that corresponds with what society ...
Crown sprouting is the ability of a plant to regenerate its shoot system after destruction (usually by fire) by activating dormant vegetative structures to produce regrowth from the root crown (the junction between the root and shoot portions of a plant). [1] These dormant structures take the form of lignotubers or basal epicormic buds.