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Tiepolo's Triumph of Flora (c. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4 [1]. The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [ˈfaːstiː], [2] "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and made public in AD 8.
The fruit is intermediate in size between a lemon and a grapefruit, 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter with a rounded shape and thick, reddish husk. [7] In mature fruits, the juice obtained by compressing the seeds yields a tart flavor due to low pH (4.4) and high contents of polyphenols, [21] which may cause a red indelible stain on ...
Fruit growers are selective when planting blackberry bushes because wild blackberries may be infected, [36] and gardeners are recommended to purchase only certified disease-free plants. [ 37 ] The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii , is a serious pest of blackberries. [ 38 ]