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The young, developing fruit of the almond tree can be eaten whole (green almonds) when they are still green and fleshy on the outside and the inner shell has not yet hardened. The fruit is somewhat sour, but is a popular snack in parts of the Middle East, eaten dipped in salt to balance the sour taste.
The fruit is edible, [10] tasting slightly acidic. When ripe, the seeds are edible raw or cooked [11] and are the source of its 'almond' common names, but are small and difficult to extract. The wood is red and solid, and has high water resistance; it has been used in Polynesia for making canoes. In Tamil, almond is known as nattuvadumai.
The almond is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. "Almond" is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the genus Prunus , it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus , distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.
European stone fruit yellows [2] ... The Almond Doctor University of California Cooperative Extension Website containing descriptions of almond ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Terminalia muelleri, the Australian almond, is a species of flowering plant in the family Combretaceae. [2] It is native to the Cobourg Peninsula of the Northern Territory , and to northern and eastern Queensland , Australia, and it has been introduced to El Salvador, and to southern Florida . [ 1 ]
Afghan almond with stalk. Almond is a fruit crop classified under two types, Amygdalus communis (sweet almonds) and Amygdalus amara (bitter almonds). Under this broad classification, in Afghanistan the almond varieties grown are under two major classes: soft-shell almonds, known locally as badam-e kaghaz (literally, "paper almond"), which can be easily broken by hand; and hard/medium-shell ...
Dipteryx oleifera (syns.Dipteryx panamensis and Coumarouna panamensis), the eboe, choibá, Tonka Bean or almendro (almond in Spanish), is a species of emergent rainforest tree up to 165 feet (fifty meters) tall [2] in the family Fabaceae (the subfamily Papilionoidea), native to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.
The fruit is a dry drupe, with both the coconut flesh and the coconut water developing from the endosperm, being surrounded by the fibrous husk. [5] Has the largest world production of any nuts, with a global figure of 62.51 million tonnes in 2019, with Indonesia, the Philippines and India being the largest producers. [6] Hazelnut (Corylus ...