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Plants, including many now used as culinary herbs and spices, have been used as medicines, not necessarily effectively, from prehistoric times.Spices have been used partly to counter food spoilage bacteria, especially in hot climates, [6] [7] and especially in meat dishes that spoil more readily. [8]
The malvids consist of eight orders of flowering plants: Brassicales, Crossosomatales, Geraniales, Huerteales, Malvales, Myrtales, Picramniales and Sapindales. [a] This subgroup of the rosids is divided into 59 families of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants.
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Tulips are perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes that bloom in spring and die back after flowering to an underground storage bulb. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 10 and 70 cm (4 and 28 inches) high.
This category includes the native flora of Laos.Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. In accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), it is included within the larger region of Indo-China in Category:Flora of Indo-China
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Depictions of sapeh exist in carvings and bas-relief panels found in ancient temples of Java dating back to the early 8th century. According to native Kalimantan manuscripts and inscriptions (mainly found in Banjar and Kutai Kertanegara), these string-based musical instrument originated in the eastern region of the island of Java and were introduced to the southern and eastern coastal regions ...