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Tag Archives: Tropical food plants
Amorphophallus konjac: Can You Resist the Lure of the Devil’s Tongue?
You are probably familiar with Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, which has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, but do you know about its smaller, red tongued sibling Amorphophallus konjac? Family Description A. konjac is a member of the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Learning and Teaching, Monocots, Philippines, Students
Tagged A. konjac, Africa, Alismatales, Amorphophallus, Amorphophallus konjac, Araceae, Aroideae, arum, botany, culinary, devil's tongue, Interesting plants, Japan, Japanese, Kew, konjac, konnyaku, medicinal plant, Medicine, Monocots, MSc Plant Diversity, snake palm, spadix, spathe, Subtropical plants, teaching and learning, terrestrial herb, Tropical Asia, Tropical biodiversity, Tropical Crops, Tropical food plants, tropical plants, voodoo lily
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Wanderlust Tropics: a naturalist journey into Bromeliaceae
Neotropical most iconic plant family! Bromeliads are part of our life in several different ways, especially for those who live on the American continent, where these plants firstly evolved around a hundred millions years ago (Givnish et al. 2011). Doubtless … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Monocots, Neotropics
Tagged Bromeliaceae, conservation, Epiphyte, MSc Plant Diversity, Tropical Crops, Tropical food plants
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1st Whiteknights Brownies
We hosted a visit from the 1st Whiteknights Brownies this evening in a very warm and humid tropical atmosphere. Over an hour we toured the world of plants asking questions such as ‘What eats chilli peppers and why?’, ‘how do … Continue reading
Visitors from Talfourd Avenue go Tropical
On Saturday the 15th of March the Tropical Biodiversity Glasshouse project had the pleasure of hosting families from the Talfourd Avenue group. They kindly agreed to come test our new (and hopefully improved) glasshouse tour, which was designed and created … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Fish, Hands-on, Interactive, Labelling, Learning and Teaching, Pond, Technology, Water Plants
Tagged banana, carnivorous plant, community education, Kinaesthetic learning, local visits, teaching and learning, Tropical biodiversity, Tropical Crops, Tropical food plants, water hyacinth, zingiberaceae
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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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