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Cullen corylifolium, or bu gu zhi 补骨脂 in traditional Chinese medicine, [4] is an herb used as a therapy for several disorders, such as treatment of lichen planus by psoralen extract combined with sunlight exposure.
Fa gao (traditional Chinese: 發糕; simplified Chinese: 发糕; pinyin: fāgāo; Cantonese Yale: faatgōu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-koé), also called fat pan (發粄) by the Hakka, [1] prosperity cake, [2] [3] fortune cake, [4] Cantonese sponge cake, [5] is a Chinese steamed, cupcake-like pastry. [6]
White sugar sponge cake (also called white sugar cake and white sugar pastry) is a type of Chinese pastry. It is made from rice flour, white sugar, water, and a leavening agent. [1] [2] While it is called a "cake", it is not served as a circular round cake. It is usually purchased as an individual square piece or a mini triangle.
The term sponge derives from the Ancient Greek word σπόγγος spóngos. [9] The scientific name Porifera is a neuter plural of the Modern Latin term porifer, which comes from the roots porus meaning "pore, opening", and -fer meaning "bearing or carrying".
Luffa acutangula is a cucurbitaceous vine that is commercially grown for its unripe fruits as a vegetable. Mature fruits are used as natural cleaning sponges. Its fruit slightly resembles a cucumber or zucchini with ridges.
The lake's sponges makes up around 44% of the benthic animal biomass. [75] Lubomirskia baicalensis, Baikalospongia bacillifera, and B. intermedia are unusually large for freshwater sponges and can reach 1 m (3.3 ft) or more. [72] [76] These three are also the most common sponges in the lake. [72]
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; ... The following are lists of sponges: List of prehistoric sponge genera;
These sponges gained media attention when a new species, a gourd-shaped carnivorous sponge, was featured in reports of finds off the coast of Antarctica.The new Chondrocladia was one of 76 [citation needed] sponge species identified in the seas off Antarctica by the Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiversity Project (ANDEEP) between 2002 and 2005, conducted aboard the German research vessel ...