Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lapacho or taheebo is herbal tea made from the inner bark of the pau d'arco tree [1] Handroanthus impetiginosus. Lapacho is used in the herbal medicine of several South and Central American indigenous peoples to treat a number of ailments including infection, fever and stomach complaints. [1] The active ingredients such as lapachol have been ...
The inner bark is used in traditional medicine. [10] It is dried, shredded, and then boiled, making a bitter brownish-colored tea known as lapacho or taheebo. The unpleasant taste of the extract is lessened when taken in pill form, or as tinctures. Lapacho bark is typically used during flu and cold season and for easing smoker's cough.
The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus used the common name maize as the species epithet in Zea mays. [17] The name maize is preferred in formal, scientific, and international usage as a common name because it refers specifically to this one grain, unlike corn, which has a complex variety of meanings that vary by context and geographic region. [18]
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum[ 2 ] (/ ˈsɔːrɡəm /) and also known as great millet, [ 3 ]broomcorn, [ 4 ]guinea corn, [ 5 ]durra, [ 6 ]imphee, [ 7 ]jowar, [ 8 ] or milo, [ 9 ] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...
Baby corn still in the husk. A stir fry of a mixture of vegetables including baby corn. Baby corn (also known as young corn, cornlettes, child corn or baby sweetcorn) is a cereal grain taken from corn (maize) harvested early while the stalks are still small and immature. It typically is eaten whole—including the cob, which is otherwise too ...
Sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa), [1] also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of corn grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel.
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries. [1]
These loveable reptiles get their name because of the bumps on their head that look like horns. But despite their rather fearsome title, they are very docile pets. Gargoyle Geckos love to climb.