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Tag Archives: Asia
Tacca chantrieri – Halloween in the plant world!
Tacca chantrieri has a purple-black, curious yet magnificent inflorescence with wide-spread wings and whisker-like bracts hanging from the side. The inflorescence of this tropical plant almost looks like a bat or jungle cat in the wild. Thus giving the plant a common name … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Countries, Monocots, Species, Students
Tagged Asia, Bat flower, exotic plants, MSc Plant Diversity, ornamental plant, Tacca, Tacca chantrieri, Toral Shah, Tropical biodiversity
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Colocasia esculenta
Taro: The Oldest Food Crop on Earth with a 10,000 Year Culinary History Colocasia esculenta, also known as Taro or Dasheen as well as many other vernacular names, is an important food crop, widely cultivated in a zone spanning across … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Crops, Species, Students
Tagged AGM, archeology, Asia, colocasia, corms, dasheen, eddoe, pacific, taro, tender perennial, tropical crop, Tropical food plants
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Starfruit: food, healer, domestic cleaner and much more
Averrhoa carambola L., the starfruit is one of those strange and unique products that come from the east of Asia, with its funny shape and curious flavours, which you can love or hate, it is beggining to appear broadly in … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Learning and Teaching, Palaeotropics, Species, Students
Tagged Asia, Averrhoa, Averrhoa carambola, Carambola, Crop, Cultivation, Fruit, Indonesia, Medicine, Oxalidaceae, Plant movement, star fruit, Starfruit, Tropical food plants
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