The Anemone meaning wind flower, which signifies that the wind that blows the petal open will also, eventually, blow the dead petals away; are perennial herbs with an underground rootstock, and radical, more or less deeply cut leaves. The elongated flower stem bears one or several, white, red, blue or rarely yellow flowers. There is an involucre of three leaflets below each flower. The fruits often bear long hairy styles, which aid their distribution by the wind. They produce cup-shaped yellowish, white, purple, violet, or red Anemone flowers.
"A Brief History of Sugar." A Brief History. 11 Oct 2008 <http://www.irish- sugar.ie/noframes/nf-pages/nf-hist/nf-hist.htm#productn> Sugar cane is a member of the grass family. The sugar cane has hollow stalks filled with a sweet juice or sap from which sugar can be extracted and can grow to 15 feet tall. It grows best in very warm climates and is ready to harvest after 10 to 20 months.
Nutri, Health & Wellness w/Lab STEVIA The Stevia Rebaudiana plant is native to South America. The people in South America have used stevia as a natural sweetener source for hundreds of years. The leaves are also used to make medicine. Stevia comes from a family of shrubs native to Central and South America. The species, often called sweet leaf or sugar leaf, is widely grown for its intensely sweet leaves.
They grow to about three feet tall with long thin light green leaves that have a sharp apex (point) at the end. Numerous drooping bell shaped flowers are found on a Yucca plant with each one holding a hardened capsule full of seeds; these are dispersed by the wind. Wind dispersal is not the only way for the Yucca to reproduce; they also have a unique rhizomatous
Rosa canina commonly called as rose hip which become popular for researchers as it property to showed remedy in traditional folk medicine due to high content of phenols (Chrubasik et al.,2008).In this study R canina showed strong free radical scavenging activity against DPPH which were able to reduce the purple color into pale yellow color .The other two tea extracts were also showed ablity to discoloration of DPPH .These exracts showed good potent to donate an electron with IC50 values R canina (54.30µg/ml),M alba (79.40µg/ ml) and (110.06µg/ml) for T pratense. However the activity of these extracts was not strong as butylated hydroxytoulene which were used as
Also, it is said, that the pine tree is an emblem of longevity and is cultivated for its ornamental and utilitarian purposes; like christmas. When the pin tree turns a thousand years old it is said the sap will turn into amber. A really rare pin tree can only be found in China, it is called the white
2014). Because of their beauty, they are commonly used as ornamental plants. In addition, some species of aquatic ferns, Azolla for example, are commonly used in Southeast Asia to fertilize rice fields and as a food source for livestock (Arora & Singh 2003). Ferns also play an important role in many cultures around the globe. In some societies, they are used medicinally to treat a wide variety of
Limonene, the chief component of orange oil, is widely used as a fragrance and flavoring, as well as a cleaning solvent. Limonene, a naturally occurring hydrocarbon, is a cyclic monoterpene, a class of natural products biosynthesized by the assembly of isoprene units into various structures. Many terpenes are responsible for the odors of plants like eucalyptus, pine, mint, lavender, rose, and others. Organic chemists use terpenes and other natural products as chiral starting materials for complex chemical syntheses or as inspirations for pharmaceuticals. Some natural products are attractive synthetic targets because of interesting or unusual structural features or medicinal applications.
Coffees are grown in warm, tropical climates. Tea is grown in cooler areas. Tea is a very common drink in the British house while Americans prefer to drink coffee. For the differences coffee and tea have, they are still very
In the same species broccoli closely resembles cauliflower. Both plants‘ flower and stalk are used for food. The outstanding difference is color; cauliflower is white in color with light green leaves, whereas broccoli is dark green. Area of Origin and History Broccoli is native to the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Mira. It is known that it evolved from a cabbage from the ancient Etruscans, who were considered to be horticultural geniuses.