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Pati Regency (Javanese: Pathi, ꦥꦛꦶ) is a regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) in the northeastern region of Central Java Province, on the island of Java in Indonesia.The regency covers an area of 1,503.68 km 2, on the coast of the Java Sea.
They were rarely cultivated from seeds as most plants were harvested prior to flowering, when the stems reach around 1 in (2.5 cm) in diameter, as described by 18th century European accounts. It is also unknown if the feral plants reproduced sexually as the plants are dioecious and require both male and female specimens to be present in one island.
PIE English Gothic Latin Ancient Greek Sanskrit Iranian Slavic Baltic Celtic Armenian Albanian Tocharian Hittite *méh₂tēr "mother" [a] [1] [2]: mother (< OE mōdor) : mōdar "mother" : māter "mother" ⇒
The seed coat consists of a thin, waxy, parchment-like and easily removable testa (husk) and a brownish, membranous tegmen. The cotyledons are usually unequal in size, and the endosperm is minimally present. [25] An average fruit consists of 27% edible seed coat, 15% edible seeds, 20% white pulp (undeveloped perianth, rags) and bark and 10% core.
The name 'durian' is derived from the Malay word duri ('thorn'), a reference to the numerous prickly thorns on its rind, combined with the noun-building suffix -an. [5] [6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the alternate spelling durion was first used in a 1588 translation of The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof by the Spanish explorer Juan ...
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. [4] Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade.
Paharpur is a small village 5 km west of Jamalganj in the Naogaon district where the remains of the Somapura Mahavihara monastery have been excavated. This 7th-century archaeological find covers an area of approximately 27 acres (110,000 m 2) of land. The entire establishment, occupying a quadrangular court, measures more than 900 ft (270 m ...