Plants

Cornflowers often contaminate cereal and rapeseed crops, which is why they are considered a weed by farmers. A single plant can produce up to 800 seeds during its lifetime.

The Spanish also introduced the cocoa tree to the West Indies and the Philippines. Cocoa was brought ...

The classic banana was the Gros Michel variety. It was sweeter and creamier. Unfortunately, due to a ...

The lifespan of a birch tree is approximately 140 years. The oldest living birch grows in Sweden. It probably began to sprout around 1750.

On the other hand, biomass is used to produce bioethanol - more than 2,500 cubic decimeters of fuel ...

The statistical Russian eats 20 kilograms of cabbage a year, followed by the Belgians who eat 4.7 kilograms, and just behind them the Dutch with 4 kilograms of cabbage consumed annually.

White rice - is the most popular variety. White rice grains are polished, as a result of which they ...

It grows wild in India, where around 40 to 45 species of Curcuma - a genus of plants in the Zingiberaceae family - can be found.

This acid has toxic effects on the body. It makes up as much as 50% of the fatty acids in this oil.

There it was given the local name cornflower because it grows very often in cornfields.