Plants

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In the first year of cultivation, it forms a rosette of leaves and a storage root and in the second year, it forms an inflorescence shoot.

Spring rapeseed is an annual crop and winter is a biennial.

The separated seeds are pressed to obtain a greenish oil. Most of it is produced in the Mediterranean basin.

Eating mandarines provides a more prolonged feeling of satiety and positively reduces "bad" cholesterol (LDL), lowering the risk of heart attack or stroke.

If hummingbirds pollinate the flowers, they develop small, hard seeds.

Crushed kiwi seeds yield oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

In Nahuatl, the word tomatl means swelling fruit or fatty water.