Plants

In the mountains, it sometimes forms compact stands.

Seeds can be obtained from fruit that we buy in the store. A plant grown from seeds does not retain the characteristics of a mother specimen but is an original exotic potted plant.

Others are pollinated by moths of the Sphingidae family.

Pineapples plantations are sprayed with naphthylacetic acid to produce fruit all year long.

Both fungi and aphids caused huge losses in crops. It was only by chance that it was discovered that copper compounds are excellent fungicides and the blight was brought under control.

The alpine forget-me-not has become an official Alaskan state flower in 1949.

One of them, Asparagus prostranus, grows especially abundantly on the coast of Cornwall, where one of the islands of the Lizard Peninsula is named Asparagus Island.

Bromelain is an allergen.