Showing posts with label Vegetable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegetable. Show all posts

Friday, April 27, 2012

Selaginella Plana

Selaginella plana
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Selaginella plana | Spikemoss is a primitive plant and although it produces spores it is not a true fern.  It is considered one of the fern allies in a genus that consists of 700 species.  Spikemoss loves the same growing conditions as ferns, so give it ample moisture, high humidity and shade.  They have scale-like leaves and most species are creeping plants that form dense carpets of soft mounds that love to sprawl between the rocks of waterfalls.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Ipomoea fistulosa

Ipomoea fistulosa

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Ipomoea fistulosa | Ipomoea carnea, is an alternative meal for most people of the world. and it also has many nutrients. the Pink Morning Glory, is a species of morning glory. This Flowering plant has heart-shaped leaves are a rich That green and 6-9 inches long. It can be easily grown from seeds the which are toxic and it can be hazardous to cattle.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Parkia speciosa

Parkia speciosa

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Parkia speciosa | Can be said of fruit can also say the plant. petai really enjoyed for the eastern Asia including Indonesia sebagao famous eating salad. Parkia speciosa is a tree up to 15-40 m in height and 50-100 cm in diameter. Branchlets are hairy. Leaves bipinnate on 2-6 cm long stalks with gland 7-15 mm above base stalk. Pinnae 10-19 pairs, 5-9 cm long, each with 31-38 pairs of leaflets Opposite linear, 5-9 mm long and about 2 mm wide, with rounded tip and small pointed or ear lobe at the base. Flowers small and creamy white, found in densely crowded heads. Pods large, 35-55 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, straight or more commonly twisted; dangling in small bundles, green Becoming black. Each pod contains 10-18 large seeds. Valves swollen over seeds. Testa soft. Robert Brown described the genus Parkia in 1826. He named it after Mungo Park, a Scot WHO made ​​two remarkable Journeys of exploration into the interior of West Africa in 1795-97 and 1805. The specific name, 'speciosa' is Latin for beautiful, showy.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Limnocharis flava

Limnocharis flava 

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Limnocharis flava  | L. flava has triangular-shaped leaf and flower stalks and produces 'octopus-like' inflorescences consisting of up to 15 three-lobed yellow flowers. Its fruits are spherical and made up of cresent shaped segments that eventually split off, carried by water currents to disperse seeds to new locations (CRC for Australian Weed Management, 2003). The botanical specifics are noted as follows. It is glabrous (lacks hairs and is smooth), scapigerous (produces leafless flowering stalks) and lactiferous (contains a milky substance). It has a short stout rhizome (which measures about 3cm long and 3cm in diameter) and numerous fibrous roots. The leaves are erect, sheathing and curvinerved, and rise in clusters above the water.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata

Brassica oleracea  var. capitata

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Brassica oleracea  var. capitata | cabbage or Brassica oleracea var. capitata is one of the popular vegetable in the world that many health benefits. This is the way cabbage grows until longer days and warmer weather signals it to bolt to flower. Then, the head splits open and Gives birth to a stalk That uncurls Itself as it forces the head split open farther. The stalk grows 2-4 '(0.6-1.2 m) tall, then develops numerous branches and small, four-petaled, cross-shaped yellow flowers elongate That eventually develop into seed pods. There are Hundreds of cultivars of cabbage (Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants lists 73 available in the U.S.). They can be grouped into three main Kinds: smooth green, red and Savoy. The smooth green cabbages may have a round, flattened or conical heads, and can be green, blue-green or yellow-green. Head size can range from one pound in some dwarf varieties to more than 60 lbs (27 kg) for some of the Kraut cabbages.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Ipomoea reptans

Ipomoea reptans
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Ipomoea reptans | Water spinach (Ipomoea sp.) Can be planted in the lowlands and highlands. kale is a favorite meal full of nutrition for spinach lovers know the vegetarians. Kale is a type of leaf vegetable crops, included into the family Convolvulaceae. Kale leaves long, whitish green color is a source of pro vitamin A. Vitamin Based on the site, kale can be divided into two kinds: 1) Watercress land, living in a dry or moor, and 2) Kangkung water, life is juicy and wet place.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Ocimum sanctum

Ocimum sanctum
Plant | Ocimum sanctum | Terna small basil leaves are commonly eaten as a salad. Leaves distinctive aroma, strong but soft aroma with a touch of lime. Basil is one of the ingredients for the Pepes.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Phaseolus vulgaris

Phaseolus vulgaris
Biggets Plant Dictionary | Phaseolus vulgaris ( Bunkis )  | Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean, is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean.

Timonius sericcus

Timonius sericcus
Plant | Timonius Sericcus ( Timun ) | place to grow cucumbers in the form of herb or weak creeping vines and a half crops: after flowering and fruiting plants die. Perbungaannya monoecious (monoecious) with the type of male flowers and hermaphrodite flowers (hermaphrodite).

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Mangifera kemanga

Mangifera kemanga
PLANT | Mangifera kemanga | Mangifera kemanga A large evergreen tree, upto 30 m tall, and bole 50-80(-120) cm or more in diameter, crown dome-shaped with massive branches; bark greyish-brown, superficially fissured, containing irritant sap.

Vigna mungo

Vigna mungo
PLANT | Vigna mungo | Known as Urad, urad dal, udad dal, urd bean, urd, urid, black matpe bean, black gram, black lentil (not to be confused with the much smaller true black lentil (Lens culinaris)), maas (in Nepali), đậu đen (Vietnamese, literally: black bean) or white lentil, is a bean grown in southern Asia.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Artocarpus integra

Artocarpus integra
Plant | Artocarpus integra | A stately tropical fruit tree, originally from South-east Asia; it is growing abundantly in Suriname; grows up to a height of 75 feet.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Solanum lycopersicum

Solanum lycopersicum

Biggets Plant Dictionary | Solanum lycopersicum | The tomato fruit is consumed in diverse ways, including raw, as an ingredient in many dishes and sauces, and in drinks.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Amaranthus sp

Amaranthus sp

Plant | Amaranthus sp | Formerly, Sauer (1955) classified the genus into 2 sub-genera, differentiating only between monoecious and dioecious species: Acnida (L.) Aellen ex K.R. Robertson and Amaranthus.