Plants

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Each season cactus can produce up to 100 flowers. Each flower is open for less than a day and withers afterwards.

Some sources claim avocado was domesticated by Mesoamerican tribes about 5,000 years ago.

Although corn naturally contains niacin (nicotinic acid, vitamin B3, vitamin PP), it was not bioavailable without the process of nixtamalization (soaking and cooking the grain in an alkaline solution, usually lime water, washing and husking).

A full-sized coconut fruit weighs about 1.4 kilograms.

Vanilla came to Europe half a thousand years ago. At the beginning of the 16th century, it was brought to Spain by the conquistador Hernán Cortés de Monroy Pizarro Altamirano, who had previewed the use of vanilla sticks at the court of the Aztec ruler Montezuma.

Winter rapeseed is mainly grown in Poland, with its crops occupying 95% of the area of all oilseed crops.

Cabbage is a biennial plant.

Napa cabbage is native to northern China and Japan.

In Europe, rapeseed began to be cultivated in the 13th century.