Native to Latin America primarily Brazil to Paraguay, passionfruit can be found in almost any tropical zone around the world. Unlike most tropical plants that grow from tropical fruit trees or shrubs, passionfruit grows from a vine and the passion flower. It comes in different varieties but the...
Flowers are inconspicuous but these trees come in male and female forms and in spring the male trees can take on an attractive rusty hew from their pollen. Fruit is a cone to about an inch in length. Used extensively as a seaside street or park planting this species is wind firm, salt ...
It grows at the base of trees and fruits from late summer right into autumn. It has a mostly greyish appearance and grows in a cluster with many spoon-like caps with limited tubes. Maitake is entirely edible and a young fruit tastes tender than an older one. View more Leave a comment ...
Fizzies were tablets that could be dropped into a cup of water to add instant (and very temporary) carbonation and fruit flavor. The Emerson Drug Company sold the sugar-free, flavored tablets to wide public appeal, and by 1968, the product was selling twice as much as Kool-Aid. Unfortunate...
Goats in the trees of Morocco Goats in Morocco are encouraged by farmers to eat ripened fruits onargan trees(Argania spinosa). This is because the fruit's nuts, used to produce argan oil, are extremely difficult to harvest. The goats eat the fruit, swallow the nuts, and the goats' digest...