Fruits and vegetables

Pineapples, olives, asparagus, cranberries and peanuts - these products have become an integral part of our holiday, or just the dinner table, and in the case of cranberries - and even beneficial "medicines" to lift immunity in winter.
But perhaps many do not know how to grow all the familiar fruits, vegetables and nuts, so here we decided to deal with this issue.




Let's start with useful vegetables: for example, looks like brussels sprouts on a bed, and on the right - in the "assembled».



No less useful Asparagus is a perennial plant that grows from the earth in the form of a massive stem.



Olives - it's the fruit of the tree of Shrovetide, and worldwide there are black olives - ripe fruit of the olive tree and green olives -nedozrevshie the fruit of the olive tree. We called the fruits of olives green and black olives called black olives. By the way, this division exists only in Russian.



Who would have thought that the artichoke - first of all, a spectacular purple flower? The top photo shows a flowering plant, and the bottom - a product of the cooking process.



A method of showing some types of nuts can also be a discovery for many people - for example, in the image depicted cashews, or rather, the crude cashew nut is attached to the bottom of a beautiful red fruits. So grow these delicious nuts, very useful for our health.



But the peanut is native to the land, and the way this is not a nut, but the fruits of peanuts or peanut looks just exactly like the real nuts: they are covered with a hard shell, and their core - the seeds - a thin skin. His taste, they also resemble nuts. But nuts they still can not be considered as the real nuts are usually formed on trees or bushes, while the peanut is an annual herb. The fruits of the plant are fastened to the ground, but when the flower fades, his leg begins to grow downwards and penetrates into the soil. In the soil to a depth of 8 - 10 cm and mature peanuts peanuts.



One of the most nutritious fruits - pomegranate - growing on a small shrub height of 5-6 meters.



Everyone knows that the coconuts grow on the palm tree, but surprised the height of this kind of trees - it reaches 27 to 30 meters!



Not difficult to guess that dates grow on the date palm. However, it is interesting to see how it matures the familiar dried fruit.



Ironically, pineapples are grown not in the trees, but in such a way: the pineapple - a ground plant with prickly stems and leaves. It weighs one fruit from 2 to 15 kg, and looks like a big shot.



Saffron - the most expensive spice in the world, which is made from the dried stigmata purple flower "Crocus". For the production of 30 grams of spices it takes about 75 000 flowers, the harvest of which is collected mainly by hand.



So, practically "standing waist deep in the swamp," useful to gather berries cranberries, then to cook delicious and nutritious dessert or drink.



Capers we use as a salty or pickled foods. There are these plants because of the flowers beautiful white: the top photo shows the still maturing small green fruits.



Source: bigpicture.ru

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