Leaves are green because they contain a natural pigment known as Chlorophyll. It is found in both the leaves and the stems. It is found in the structures called Chloroplasts. Chlorophyll takes the energy of sunlight and uses it to convert carbon dioxide and water into chemical energy, in the form of glucose which allows […]
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• Common name : Pumpkin • Scientific name : Cucurbitapepo • Family : Cucurbitaceae • Native land : North America Pumpkin is an annual climber. It grows up to 2 feet. The plant blooms from July to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The fruit is round, with a smooth, slightly ribbed
• Common name : Potato • Scientific name : Solanumtuberosum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : South America The potato is a starchy, tuberous perennial crop. It is widely cultivated for its edible tubers, which are used to produce a variety of products including chips, crisps and vodka. It is considered to be
• Common name : Opium Poppy • Scientific name : Papaversomniferum • Family : Papaveraceae • Native land : Mediterranean Basin, South-Eastern Europe, and Western Asia Poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. They have brilliant white or red flowers, growing on central bulbous pods. When scratched, the pod produces milky latex called
• Common name : Herb Bennet, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley • Scientific name : Conium maculatum • Family : Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) • Native land : Europe and the Mediterranean region Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plant. It has hairless hollow stalks with purple blotches. The leaves are triangular in shape. It
• Common name : Pointleaf Manzanita, Mexican Manzanita • Scientific name : Arctostaphylospungens • Family : Ericaceae • Native land : Mexico It is a perennial, evergreen plant. The leaves are green, stiff, leathery, held vertically, and have sharply pointed tips. The branches have beautiful, smooth, reddish-brown bark. The flowers are shaped like inverted vases
Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. The cocoa beans come from a tree known as the Theobroma Cacao. It is found in tropical areas such as Africa and South America. Every year, a single tree produces around a thousand fruits, known as Pods. The pods grow out of the trunk of the tree. Inside the
• Common name : Pineapple Sage • Scientific name : Salvia elegans • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Mexico, Guatemala Pineapple sage is a perennial shrub. It has opposite, ovate, soft-hairy, light green leaves on square stems. The plant has pineapple aroma and flavour in its foliage when crushed. It produces slender trumpet-shaped
• Common name : Lacy Phacelia or Purple Tansy • Scientific name : Phaceliatanacetifolia • Family : Boraginaceae • Native land : South-Western United States and Northern Mexico Phacelia is a herbaceous, non-leguminous flowering plant. The foliage appears ferny, and the flowers are in flat-topped clusters in the shades of purple or occasionally white. Spring
• Common name : Asian Persimmon, Japanese Persimmon • Scientific name : Diospyros kaki • Family : Ebenaceae • Native land : Asia (China, Japan) Asian persimmon is a deciduous tree. This is an excellent fruit tree for ornamental use and makes an excellent specimen. The tree looks attractive when leaves have fallen in autumn,
The Death Apple tree is called Manchineel Tree. It is an endangered species in Florida, the USA. The fruit and leaves of this tree resemble the fruit and leaves of an apple tree. The tree’s fruit is known as the Death Apple because it is slightly sweet but very poisonous and painful to eat. Just
• Common name : Madagascar Periwinkle, Periwinkle • Scientific name : Catharanthusroseus • Family : Apocynaceae • Native land : Madagascar Periwinkle is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant. It produces attractive bushy foliage that is covered by an often profuse bloom of phlox-like flowers from summer to frost. Much softwood branches from the ground
• Common name : Bell Pepper, Capsicum, Sweet Pepper • Scientific name : Capsicum annuum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : Tropical North and South America Capsicum or bell pepper is a herbaceous perennial plant. Plants of this species grow in shrubby mounds. The flowers are white or yellow and the leaves are
• Common name : Peony • Scientific name : Paeoniacaucasica • Family : Paeoniaceae • Native land : Caucasus Peony is a deciduous, woody shrub. It is a taprooted plant with thick horizontal rhizome and leafy stems. The leaves have elong-ateovate or elongate-elliptical lobes with greyish wax and short sparse hair beneath. Its flowers are
• Common name : Garden Pea • Scientific name : Pisumsativum • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : South-West Asia, Southern Europe and North-East Africa Garden pea is a glabrous, hardy, annual, climbing leguminous plant. It has a non-edible fibrous pod that bore edible round seeds. The seeds are a highly nutritious food, having