The botanical lies in your fruit bowl
The secret defense systems of vegetables
The imposter nuts that fooled the world
Ancient wild ancestors of modern crops
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schopenhauer Imposter Nuts
That peanut is a bean growing under the ground, and your almond is a seed from a fleshy stone fruit!
schopenhauer Leathery green fruit splits open on a branch, revealing a hard almond pit.
schopenhauer A freshly harvested peanut plant shows pods clinging to roots covered in soil.
schopenhauer Sort uncommon food facts to discover the spicy secrets of global ingredients.
Exploding seeds: Sandbox trees have fruit that explodes with a loud bang, launching seeds at speeds of 150 miles per hour.
A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed. In 1753, Carl Linnaeus classified the almond tree, which produces edible drupe seeds rather than true nuts.
Which island did the Dutch trade to the British in 1667 to secure a monopoly on the nutmeg-producing Banda Islands?
What is the botanical term for the process where a peanut plant buries its fertilized flowers to grow seeds underground?
What corrosive substance, also found in poison ivy, is present in raw cashew shells?