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Salvinia minima is a species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of still waterways. [1] It is usually referred to as common salvinia or water spangles . Salvinia minima is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies and was introduced to the United States in the 1920s–1930s. [ 2 ]
Salvinia or watermosses [1] is a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.The genus is named in honor of 17th-century Italian naturalist Anton Maria Salvini, and the generic name was first published in 1754 by French botanist Jean-François Séguier in Plantae Veronenses, a description of the plants found around Verona. [2]
Peppercorns and the ground pepper derived from them may be described simply as pepper, or more precisely as black pepper (cooked and dried unripe fruit), green pepper (dried unripe fruit), or white pepper (ripe fruit seeds). [2] Black pepper is native to the Malabar Coast of India, [3] [4] and the Malabar pepper is extensively cultivated there ...
It is described as spicy and pungent, more so than Sichuan pepper, and bitter. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] It is usually used by grinding it into a powder and adding it into soups, stews, seasonings, and sauces. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Even in West Africa this is a rare spice [ citation needed ] , and typically only five or six dried fruit are added to a dish.
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S. minima and S. natans have four free standing hairs connected at a single base. The Giant Salvinia , as well as S. auriculata, and other closely related species, display the most complex hairs: four hairs grow on a shared shaft; they are connected at their tips. These structures resemble microscopic eggbeaters and are therefore referred to as ...
The Piperaceae (/ ˌ p ɪ p ə ˈ r eɪ ʃ iː /), also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of species can be found within the two main genera: Piper (2,171 species) and Peperomia (over 1,000 species). [4]
Salvinia molesta, commonly known as giant salvinia, or as kariba weed after it infested a large portion of Lake Kariba between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil. [1] It is a free-floating plant that does not attach to the soil, but instead remains buoyant on the surface of a body of water.