Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Benefits of Avocados

Benefits of Avocados
Avocado (Persea Americana) is a fruit-producing plants with the same name. This plant is native to Mexico and Central America and now widely cultivated in South America and Central America as plant monocultures and as garden plants in other tropical regions of the world. Tall tree reaches a height of 20 m with round leaves 12 to 25 cm. The flowers are hidden by a yellowish green color and the size of 5 to 10 millimeters. Its size varies from 7 to 20 centimeters, with a mass of 100 to 1000 grams; large seeds, 5 to 6.4 centimeters.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Benefits of Watermelon

Benefits of Watermelon
Watermelon vines are derived from semi-desert regions of southern Africa. This plant is still sekerabat with pumpkin-labuan (Cucurbitaceae), melon (Cucumis melo) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Regular watermelon fruit is harvested to be eaten fresh or made juice. Watermelon seeds are dried and roasted also edible contents (cotyledon) as watermelon seeds.

The leaves are grooved around the edges. The flowers are yellow, small. Watermelon is andromonoecious monoclinic, which has two types of flowers on one plant: the male flowers, which has only stamens (stamens), and pansy flowers / hermaphrodite, which has stamens and pistils (pistillum). Pansy flower can be recognized from the ovaries (ovarian) at the base of the flower in the form of an oval-shaped enlargement. Watermelon has a tough skin, solid green or light green with dark green lines-lines. Depending on the type, juicy flesh that is red or yellow.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Benefits of Mangosteen

Benefits of Mangosteen
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) is a kind of evergreen trees of the tropics are believed to come from the archipelago. Grow up to 7 to 25 meters. The fruit is also called mangosteen, reddish-purple color when ripe, although there are also variants whose skin is red.

Mangosteen is a tropical tree that grows in warm and stable temperature, exposure to temperatures below 0 ° C (32 ° F) for long periods of time, generally will kill the adult plants. Experienced horticulturists have been growing this species outdoors and bring it to be developed in the area of extreme southern Florida. Mangosteen is an obligate apomixis, seeds do not come from fertilization and allegedly has a narrow genetic diversity, it is estimated that the mangosteen in nature only one clone and the same characteristics as its parent.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Benefits of Mango

Benefits of Mango
Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera, consisting of 35-40 members and tribe Anacardiaceae. The scientific name is Mangifera indica. Fruit name is derived from the Malayalam maanga. This word was brought to Europe by the Portuguese and was absorbed into manga (Portuguese), mango (English) and others. Own scientific name roughly means: "(trees) which bear fruit mango, originated from India". From around the Indian border with Burma, mango has spread to Southeast Asia since at least 1500 years ago.