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This tree is useful for nitrogen fixation, and it is often cultivated for forage, as an ornamental garden plant or urban tree, and as a medicinal plant. For example, the young leaves can be cooked and eaten. The raw seeds are toxic, but may be eaten when cooked. [6] In Singapore, the species forms part of the diet of local Raffles' banded ...
Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.
The seeds are used as beads to make malas (rosaries), known as Bodhichitta malas, [2] Buddha chitta mala, or Bodhi seed malas, used in Tibetan Buddhist worship. These are highly valued with a mala of 108 beads costing up to 80 thousand Nepalese Rupees. However the price of the mala varies according to the diameter and the face of the seed.
The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children. [2] The plant is native to Asia and Australia. [1] It has a tendency to become weedy and invasive where it has been ...
An edible seed [n 1] is a seed that is suitable for human or animal consumption. Of the six major plant parts, [n 2] seeds are the dominant source of human calories and protein. [1] A wide variety of plant species provide edible seeds; most are angiosperms, while a few are gymnosperms.
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This plant is found in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Asia, South America, and Africa, [3] situated in gardens, road sides, farm fields and disturbed sites. [4] B. alba is an annual or short-lived perennial, which is considered a weed in the United States. [2] However, B. alba leaves are edible and can be used as medicinal ...
The seed's oil is widely used for industrial purposes such as soap making, paints preparations and preparation of different types of emulsions. [13] The seed is used as bird food. As the seeds are so small, specialized bird feeders are manufactured for niger seed. In the United Kingdom the seeds attract finches and siskins. [14]