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OPUNTIA are CACTACEAE = cacti with hundreds of species all native to America. Opuntia species are found from Patagonia to Alaska, but it is in the dry and warm regions…
OPUNTIA are CACTACEAE = cacti with hundreds of species all native to America. Opuntia species are found from Patagonia to Alaska, but it is in the dry and warm regions…
The OLIVE TREE, OLEA EUROPAEA (OLEA EUROPEA), OLEACEAE, is a domesticated variety of the oleaster, a plant endemic to the Mediterranean area. It is, moreover, an unfixed species of which…
Walnut trees, JUGLANDACEAE, are large trees found on all continents and of which there are about twenty species. There was a walnut tree in Europe but it did not survive…
With rare exceptions, RUBIACEAE are tropical plants, mainly trees and shrubs.It is a large plant family, more than 5000 species, where we find coffee and two important mdicinal plants:cinchona (quinine)…
KOLA trees , MALVACEAE,(formerly sterculiaceae) originate from the warm and humid regions of West Africa. Botanists distinguish at least 5 species that have edible and medicinal nuts (the botanical classification…
AZADIRACHTA INDICA, Neem tree or Neem (English common name used throughout the world) is included in the MELIACEAE family (such as mahogany), it is probably native to the Indo-Malay region.…
Perennial plants, shrubs or bushy shrubs in cold and humid regions but also tropical plants developing on mountainous slopes, ERICACEAE are robust, not very demanding on the quality of the…
This small botanical family, MYRISTICACEAE, comprises few genera and 380 species of trees in tropical forests, especially in the Indo-Malay region, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. They are trees…
The BLACKBERRY and related species, RASPBERRY,DEWBERRY,BRAMBLE, (ROSACEAE), are found on small bushy shrubs spread worldwide but most frequently encountered in temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere including North…
Like squash, cucumber, melon, watermelon , BITTER GOURD ( karela in India ) is a climbing or creeping plant.There are around sixty species of momordica originating from the old world…