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10 exotic edible plants
1. Oceania growing breadfruit. Bready called all kinds of trees, Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family. They bear fruit "loaf" of up to 12 kg! The oval fruit pulp accumulates starch, converted by the process of maturing the dough. "Those who planted breadfruit, will do more to feed their offspring, than a farmer all his life by the sweat of its machining field." - James Cook wrote. Usually breadfruit fruit for 70-75 years. On one tree matures annually 700-800 "bread." The fruits are filled with sweetish pulp. From the unripe fruits make drinks, and ripe - something like a baked bread. Fruits Indian breadfruit reach a meter in diameter. Branches would not stand such a load, so the "Caravan" grow directly on the trunk. At the African breadfruit trakulii smaller fruit - to half a meter in diameter and weighing up to 14 kg. In Madagascar, the patriarch remained breadfruit trees - 20 m in height, trunk circumference of 50 meters.
2. Of sago palm starch, growing in New Guinea, make pancakes. Palma bloom 16 year of life, but it is cut down before flowering, when the greatest number of core starch. The core is recovered, forced through a small sieve on a hot metal surface and make sago from sago palm is called.
3. Without any treatment can be used latex proper milk tree - Venezuelan galaktodendrona. In composition it is similar to cow's milk and cream with the sugar resembles. If the juice to boil, delicious curd is formed.
4. In Madagascar, you can admire the stunning tree from the family of begonia with fancy fruits. It is called the sausage, since its branches a lot of brown, randomly hanging on long stalk, kolbasovidnyh fruit. Each "sausage" can be about half meter long and 10 cm in diameter.
5. Socotra Island off the east coast of Africa - the center of strange, peculiar forms of plant life. Here on the rocky slopes of the mountains can be seen dendrosicyos (Dendrosicyos socotrana) - a plant with wrinkled leaves prickly, spiky, like ordinary cucumbers, fruits and thick, swollen from the milky juice of the trunk, which consists of soft whitish cellular tissue, which is easily cut with a knife. It is the only tree in the family Cucurbitaceae.
6. On the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, growing palm nuts juice is thickened by its taste is not very different from the butter.
7. There are plants - "candy." For example, the Paraguayan shrub stevia leaves more than 300 times sweeter than sugar, and the leaves of the Mexican sugar grass - 1,000 times. Red berries herb Toumatokus dannely of the African savannah sweeter than sugar 2,000 times, and the red berries from the forests Dioskorefillyum kumminisii Nigeria and other West African countries - 3000 times. In West Africa, and grows the sweetest plant - shrub ketemf containing substance toumatin surpassing sweetness of sugar is 100,000 times!
8. on the islands of Oceania have the kind of tropical trees - "cake." They grow in abundance yellowish fruit that tastes like sweet pastries.
9. candy tree or the Japanese raisin tree, - representative of the family krushinovoj, a native of Japan and China - Hoeven sweet. If we are to be precise, in fact, they are dry, and the taste of the candy plant on the fan: it resembles sour raisins. But twisted axle keep them juicy and fleshy inflorescence. Each tree can yield 35 kg of "candy" with a taste of rum.
10. In the forests of India, the plant grows Kaliri Kanda called in the local dialect "fool the stomach." Eating 1-2 leaf person a feeling of satiety for a whole week, despite the fact that leaves no nutrients. Due to the property to create the illusion of fullness, tablets and infusions of leaves Kaliri-kanda recommend that people who want to lose weight.
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