Plants

Corn has also played an important role in the history of the United States. When the first settlers arrived on the North American continent in December 1620, they lacked food, and many died. Those who survived were helped by Indians who shared food with them and showed them how to grow corn, squash, and legumes.

The plant is densely branched, rather limp, and blue-green in color.

Turmeric is also an ornamental room plant.

Cornflowers are used to obtain food coloring.

It is claimed the Pilgrims came on a ship called the Mayflower, thus the flower’s name.

After the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, exiled Jews established citron orchards wherever the climate allowed.

The watercress is part of the coats of arms of French towns and communes: Vermon, Vayres-sur-Essonne, and D'Huison-Longueville.

The pumpkin is native to South America and cultivated as early as 3,000 BC.

In Angola, the dried baobab fruits are cooked to make a nutritious broth that is the basis for juices and the region's characteristic ice cream called gelado de múcua.

They can grow to really gigantic forms, but it takes time.