Plants

Carrot usually refers to one of the varieties of this plant - it belongs to the celery family Aplaceae, and is considered to be the best-know species of it.

Sycamore wood is valued in the furniture and wood-turning industries.

The ancient Maya and Aztec cultures were strongly associated with the cultivation of corn.

The wood from the trunk of the coconut palm and the fiber from the leaves are used in the construction industry to make roofs, mats, and furniture.

The carob tree is widely grown in nurseries as an ornamental plant.

Researchers at East China Normal University in Shanghai have found that a substance - D-chiro-inositol - found in fig-leaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia) pulp extract can replace insulin.

There are several legends surrounding the name of the plant.

100 g of the fruit provides 83 kcal.

The oldest traces of the use of cocoa seeds as food were found in Ecuador, in the upper reaches of the Amazon tributaries, at an archaeological site dating back to 5450-5300 years BP (before the present, which is assumed to be 1950).

Rapeseed blooms for about 45 days and the flowers are pollinated by bees.