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Protected: Leek, or allium porrum is grown for its long, edible leaf bases rather than a bulb like onions. They can provide a mild, palatable base, which is less pungent & can be used in soups, stews, & flavoring
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Protected: Domestication of beets, (beta vulgaris), began thousands of years ago. In the Mediterranean & middle East. All cultivated beets derive from the wild sea beet, Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima
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Protected: Using thin shoots, asparagus, or asparagus officinalis domestication began over 2,000 years ago. Cultivated by ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans for food and medicine, in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Protected: Renowned for its small, edible underground tubers. Chufa, rush nut, tiger nut, yellow nutsedge, earth almond, or cyperus esculentus var. sativus, is an ancient, vegetatively propagated sedge crop. It is one of the earliest cultivated plants. With evidence of consumption dating back nearly 20000 years
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Protected: Lettuce or lactuca sativa l. was domesticated from the wild species, Lactuca serriola. Commonly known as wild or prickly lettuce
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Protected: A big grass plant. Its believed maize, or corn was domesticated in southwestern Mexico. Specifically in the Balsas River Valley region, of what is now, the state of Guerrero
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Wild celery, apium graveolens, is native to the Mediterranean region, including marshes of Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, & the Caucasus
Celery was known to ancient peoples long before formal domestication:Egypt: leaves were found in pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb (died 1323 BCE), though these remains may represent wild celery, not cultivated types; and,Greece: Celery fruits from around the 7th century BCE were found at Heraion of Samos.Before 1000 BCE wild celery was used medicinally and ritually in…
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Zucchini and its broader summer squash species cucurbita pepo. Including pumpkins, marrows, cocozelles, and others. Were believed to be domesticated around 8 or 10,000 years ago, in Mesoamerica
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Zucchini is a cultivar-group of cucurbita pepo subspecies pepoPart of on of the oldest domesticated squash species. Cucurbita pepo is native to the Americas, with wild ancestors found in northeastern Mexico and the southeastern and central United States. Thicker rinds, larger…
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Genetic studies suggest that an ancestral tomato, solanum lycopersicum cerasiforme, or cherry type. Emerged in the wild around 78–80 thousand years ago
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Solanum lycopersicum was more likely the first domesticated tomatoIt was domesticated in western south America around 7,000 years ago. The process involved selective breeding, which transformed a small, wild fruits into the larger cultivated varieties we know today. Early native peoples…
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Valued for its spices and vegetables. Pepper plants or capsicum produce non-pungent sweet bell pepper fruits
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Domestication of bell peppers (capsicum annuum) was primarlity in Mesoamerica, especially central-eastern Mexico, extending into northern central AmericaThe Valley of Mexico, Guerrero, Puebla, and Tamaulipas / Tehuacán Valleys early cultivations. Wild capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum (“chiltepin”) was used 8,000–10,000 years ago;…