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Thursday, 4 December 2025
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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Poison ivy
Poison ivy has trifoliate leaves.
Their color ranges from light to dark green, and the leaves usually darken with age.  The leaflets a ...
Garlic
Common garlic (Allium sativum) is a perennial plant belonging to the allium subfamily (Allioideae Herbert), included in the Amaryllidaceae family.
There are about 800 species here, of which about 690 belong to the garlic genus. Representatives of ...
Sweet potato
Its biological name is the potato vine (Ipomoea batatas).
Thus, it is a cousin of the vines.
Asparagus
Asparagus roots and rhizomes contain asparagine (an organic compound from the group of endogenous amino acids), steroidal saponins, coumarin, coniferin, vanillin, rutin, volatile oils, carotenoids, amino acids, and unusual carbohydrates.
Broad beans
The broad bean fruit is a downward hanging pod, up to 12 cm long, containing 2-5 seeds separated by spongy compartments.
The seeds are lens- or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow, sometimes brown. The seed length is 35 mm.
Sesame seeds
Indian sesame is also known as eastern sesame, benne.
The name sesame comes from the Latin sesamum and the Greek σήσαμον - sēsamon. In Persian, sesame is ...
Coconut tree
A full-sized coconut fruit weighs about 1.4 kilograms.
The fruit can reach different weights, with up to 0,5 kilograms being encountered - the largest fruits reach up to 2,5 kilograms.
Cornflower
Cornflowers often appear in paintings.
One of the more famous paintings in which the cornflower motif appears is Vincent van Gogh's landsca ...
Cocoa bean
Cocoa, cocoa beans, are the seeds of the fruit of the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao).
The cocoa tree is a species of plant from the mallow family (Malvaceae), originating from humid trop ...
Jerusalem artichoke
Topinambur is also used as an animal feed.
For this purpose, the entire plant is used, both the shoots and leaves, as well as the tubers. Topin ...