Plants

They occur in forests, often in mountainous areas and mountain valleys, where they sometimes play th ...

The average fruit has a diameter of 2 cm and comes in many colors. The fruit may be white, green, pink, red, or almost black. The fruit contains 2 to 4 pear-shaped seeds with a maximum length of 6 mm.

Aloe vera is commonly used as a topical medication to ease skin irritation. It also increases the hydration of the skin.

The collected bark is left to dry, during which it takes on the shape characteristic of a cinnamon stick.

In the English fleet, a mandatory 1 ounce daily dose of lemon juice was introduced for each seaman to address the problem of common scurvy at that time.

Pineapples plantations are sprayed with naphthylacetic acid to produce fruit all year long.

Likely, they didn’t have their first contact with the vegetable until Captain Carl Peter Thunberg’s ship arrived on the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaka Bay in August 1775.

Orchids (Orchidaceae) estimate at 30-40 thousand species of perennials, distributed into 880 genera. ...

Fossil representatives of ginkgo are known from numerous fossils, the oldest of which date to about 280 million years ago.The only relic of this group has remained until modern times ginkgo biloba.