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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
"The pod people represent a completely regimented society. Metaphorically, they are so alike as "two peas in a pod" because they have been sapped of their emotional individuality. The vegetarian metaphor literizes Red Scare rhetoric of the "growth" of Communism as well as the idea that revolutions are made by planting seeds. There is a scene ...
Chorizema cordatum is an erect, scrambling or climbing shrub that typically grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) wide. Its leaves are heart-shaped, 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) long with a stipule at the base of the petiole, and often have wavy, toothed or lobed edges.
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Candy canes are a peppermint treat long associated with Christmas. Learn their history, including why they were first made with red and white stripes.
A child holding an edible pod pea in Kenya. Snow peas, along with sugar snap peas and unlike field and garden peas, are notable for having edible pods that lack inedible fiber [11] (in the form of "parchment", a fibrous layer found in the inner pod rich in lignin [12]) in the pod walls. Snow peas have the thinner walls of the two edible pod ...
An edible-podded pea is similar to a garden, or English, pea, but the pod is less fibrous, and is edible when young. Pods of the edible-podded pea, including snap peas, do not have a membrane and do not open when ripe. At maturity, the pods grow to around 4 to 8 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 inches) in length. Pods contain three to nine peas.