RADISH

The large plant family of brassicales or BRASSICACEAE(formerly cruciferous) includes the genus raphanus (mainly the various radishes and wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) and other genera also interesting because they include…

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DANDELION

A modest representative of the enormous ASTERACEAE family (formerly composeae, more than 20,000 species), the DANDELION, TARAXACUM OFFICINALE is a plant from the old world (Eurasia) with a temperate climate.…

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BITTER ORANGE SWEET ORANGE

RUTACEAE include about 130 genera and more than 1500 species of trees or shrubs mainly from warm regions. The leaves of rutaceae are often punctuated with small vesicular inclusions containing…

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OLIVE TREE OLIVE OIL

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…

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COMMON WALNUT BLACK WALNUT

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…

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BLUEBERRY CRANBERRY

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…

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BLACKBERRY RASPBERRY

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…

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POMEGRANATE

The POMEGRANATE tree, PUNICA GRANATUM, LYTHRACEAE , (PUNICACEAE) is often just a bushy shrub, it is native to the Mediterranean basin or the Middle East. It was already cultivated in…

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GINSENG ELEUTHEROCOCCUS

In ancient Chinese medicine books, ginseng, PANAX GINSENG, ARALIACEAE, was already a famous medicinal plant.It "regulated" the 5 viscera, balanced the vital energy, strengthening the spirit, making courageous and generous,…

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GINKGO GINKYO

This elegant-looking tree , GINKGO BILOBA, GINKGOACEAE,is considered a "living fossil". Geology tells us that very similar plants lived in the primary (Permian) era, peaked in the Secondary (Jurassic) era,…

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