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Thursday, 15 January 2026
21 facts about olives
21 facts about olives
"Where the olive refuses to grow, there the Mediterranean world ends"
It is not known exactly when and where the first olive tree, characteristic of the Mediterranean region, grew. Paleobotanists claim that wild olives g ...

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Bananas
Bananas are mainly cultivated in the intertropical zone.
Banana plantations can be found in Africa, North and South America, Asia and the Pacific.
Saguaro cactus
Fruits are ruby red and big.
Their size may vary from 6 to 9 cm (2,5 to 3,5 in) and ripe in June. As they grow really high, special pole is used to harvest them.
Cinnamon
It also contains about 80 aromatic compounds.
One of them is eugenol, also present in cloves, which has disinfectant and anesthetic properties. However, in excess, it is harmful and may irritate the skin and mucous membranes.
Garlic
Garlic is also mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Numbers.
Chronicles say that the builders of the pyramids also used garlic to strengthen their bodies. When t ...
Cerbera odollam
Cerbera is an evergreen tree reaching up to 15 m in height.
It has gray cracked bark and the crown of the tree is rounded. The thirty centimeter long leaves are oblong-ovate, dark green, glossy with a distinctly pointed tip.
Olives
One olive tree can yield 50-65 kg of olives.
If the trees are irrigated, the yield per tree can reach 100 kg in commercial cultivation.
Pumpkin
The genus Cucurbita - pumpkin - includes about 20 species. The best-known cultivated species are giant, musk, and classic orange pumpkin.
A giant pumpkin is a valuable raw material for industry (distilling, baking, fruit and vegetable pr ...
Sugar maple
Sugar maple trees thrive in cooler climates.
The perfect temperature is an average of -7 degrees Celsius (20 F).
Rowan
It is spread by birds and mammals.
Rowan berries are eaten by about 60 species of birds and some mammals. Since the seeds are not digested by these animals, they are dispersed in their excrement.
Stinging nettle
Stinging nettle is a synanthropic plant, which means that it is associated with man.
It grows in areas whose character has been largely shaped by humans, such as farmland, but it also g ...