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Protected: Toxicodendron vernicifluum is also known as the lacquer tree
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Domesticated as a fruit crop in prehistoric times, & considered one of the earliest fruit trees brought into cultivation, in the old world. Pomegranate, or punica granatum are fruit-bearing shrubs or small trees. Cultivated for edible seeds (arils) & juice
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Pomegranate trees are native to the region from the Iranian/Persian plateau eastward to northern India and parts of Central Asia In Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Caucasus and adjoining areas. Wild progenitors occurIndicating this broad middle eastern/central asian belt as its…
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Protected: Gossypium arboreum & Gossypium herbaceum are both are diploid cotton species cultivated for their fiber in the African & Asian old world
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Coconut palm, or cocos nucifera, is a tropical palm tree. It is the only living species of the genus cocos
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The common name ‘coconut’ comes from the early Portuguese/Spanish cocoMeaning “head” or “skull”Based on the three indentations from the shell. Two major genetic groups of coconuts are indicated from modern genetic studiesOne associated with the Pacific region and one with the…
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Possibly being transported on pack animals horses, donkeys or camels. The European plum, or prunus domestica has many cultivated forms. Such as damsons, greengages, and prune plums
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > European plums are derived from cultivated stock Hybridization from prunus cerasifera (cherry plum), and possibly P. spinosa (sloe), though the precise wild ancestor is debated. Plum stones, or seeds have been found at neolithic sites in Europe, (Germany and Ukraine), dating…
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Protected: Carob, ceratonia siliqua, is a flowering evergreen tree in the legume family, and caesalpinioideae subfamily
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Protected: The consumption and domestication of cocoa tree, theobroma cacao, has long interested both biologists, anthropologists; and, educated types. As well, as the general public. Well before chocolate
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Protected: Scientifically known as phoenix dactylifera, the domestication of date palms were important & significant
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Bananas were first domesticated in the island region of New Guinea, &nearby parts se Asia
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Archaeological evidence (phytoliths, microscopic plant silica remains) indicates bananas were cultivated and undergoing domestication at least 6.9 to 6,400 years agoIn the Kuk Swamp region, of Papua New Guinea. Modern edible bananas do not occur naturally in the wild the way…
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Protected: Ficus carica, or fig domesticion is among the earliest known in human history. It is possibly the first. The earliest evidence is in the Near East around 12,000 years ago, at Gilgal I, during the pre-pottery neolithic period
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