Spaghetti doesn't grow on bushes

[Pieface]

s'true - they tap it like rubber I think

 

[tarannau]

Cashew trees produce both a fruit ("apple") and a nut, and a valuable oil can be drawn from the nut shell. After the cashew flower blooms, a nut forms. The apple later swells between the nut shell and the stem. It takes two months for the cashew apple to ripen.

Cashew trees are weird things indeed. They don't always grow upright; sometimes the branches from the main trunk spread outwards and down, plunging themselves into the soil and then back out again, forming exceptionally wide trees.

Look at the the green shadow on this photo by the sea for example. That's not a forest, that's one tree!

It is admittedly the world's largest cashew tree which I visited in Pirangi in NE Brazil not all that long ago. It's a whole industry based around a tree - it's big enough to support a visitor centre, a crafts market and a whole host of guides...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The groundnut

Groundnut (Apios americana) belongs to the bean or legume plant family (Leguminosae). It has a vinelike growth form that twines upon and through the shrubbery beneath the forest. Along the Connecticut River, it is often intermixed with poison ivy. Groundnut's once-pinnately compound leaves have 5-7 leaflets.

The flowers occur in clusters and are brownish-red, the fruits are bean pods 2-4 inches (5-10 cm) in length

The plant has underground stems growing 2-3 inches beneath the soil; the stems have periodic swellings (the groundnut itself) that are a couple of inches in diameter.

Botanically these swollen stems are tubers and are the edible portions of the plant. The tubers function as storage organs for the plant. The tubers are perennial and may be harvested at any time of the year; this trait was of great significance to the Amerindians and early European explorers and colonists.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I *HEART* this thread

I knew none of this and that pineapple plant is brilliant

Keep going please.

I'm so pleased. I thought it was just me that was stupid

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Look at the the green shadow on this photo by the sea for example. That's not a forest, that's one tree!

It is admittedly the world's largest cashew tree which I visited in Pirangi in NE Brazil not all that long ago. It's a whole industry based around a tree - it's big enough to support a visitor centre, a crafts market and a whole host of guides...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I *HEART* this thread

I knew none of this and that pineapple plant is brilliant

Keep going please.

Where are........actually - cinnamon - I know that's a bark but what does the tree look like?

Have just discovered this about cinnamon

Cinnamon spice produces healthier blood
17:52 24 November 2003
NewScientist.com news service
Debora MacKenzie

Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study has found. The effect, which can be produced even by soaking a cinnamon stick your tea, could also benefit millions of non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it.

 

[dormouse]

Did their alternative name - Groundnuts, not give you a clue?

I didn't know that! So when I buy groundnut oil it's actually peanut oil. Well I never.

(How could I not have known that?)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I didn't know that! So when I buy groundnut oil it's actually peanut oil. Well I never.

(How could I not have known that?)

Idiot
















I knew that

 

[crustychick]

I didn't know that! So when I buy groundnut oil it's actually peanut oil. Well I never.

(How could I not have known that?)

OMG, even after reading this thread I didn't realise that!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

OMG, even after reading this thread I didn't realise that!

Good. That makes me feel better to know that I'm not the only one

 

[dormouse]

Idiot





I knew that

I'd love to be able to say
'but I did know the coffee bean thing'....




...but I can't.

 

[gentlegreen]

And cocoa pods grow straight out of the branches of the cacao tree - hence are "Cauliflorous"

This and many other botanical wonders may be found at this fab site :-
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd love to be able to say
'but I did know the coffee bean thing'....




...but I can't.

I didn't really know about the nuts

 

[Orang Utan]

I used to think Guinness came from peat

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

And cocoa pods grow straight out of the branches of the cacao tree - hence are "Cauliflorous"

This and many other botanical wonders may be found at this fab site :-
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/

I'm confused now. Where's the cherry?

 

[girasol]

Have just discovered this about cinnamon

Cinnamon spice produces healthier blood
17:52 24 November 2003
NewScientist.com news service
Debora MacKenzie

Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study has found. The effect, which can be produced even by soaking a cinnamon stick your tea, could also benefit millions of non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it.

I wish they made cinnamon perfum (maybe they do?), it's one my favorite smells!


I also wish I posted this after I searched for cinnamon perfurm...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I used to think Guinness came from peat

You were probably told that when you were younger, the same as you were probably found under a gooseberry bush

 

[rennie]

my grandfather grew peanuts so i always knew they grew underground!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wish they made cinnamon perfum (maybe they do?), it's one my favorite smells!


I also wish I posted this after I searched for cinnamon perfurm...

There's Cinnabar, but that's Jasmine and Orange

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

my grandfather grew peanuts so i always knew they grew underground!

Where was that then?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wish they made cinnamon perfum (maybe they do?), it's one my favorite smells!


I also wish I posted this after I searched for cinnamon perfurm...

http://www.escential.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=6947

 

[pogofish]

What was that period called, The Groundnut Wars?

It is known as the Groundnut Affair or the The Tanganyikan Groundnuts Scheme. Which involved a huge UK public commitment & investment on behalf of companies like Unilever to put the economy of a fair chunk of East Africa over almost entirely to groundnut farming.

As you can imagine it was a complete & utter disaster in all ways & the damage to that corner of Africa & its economy helped precipitate serious opposition to UK dominion & independance a few years later - Implications affected more colonies than Tanganyika alone. Beginning of the end in some ways.

All for nuts!

 

[girasol]

http://www.escential.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=6947

I found this in the UK, wonder if it could be used on the skin, rather than using the oil on the 'Soap Flower'... I don't see why not, unless one has sensitive skin...

cinnamon oil

All the cinnamon perfumes I've found so far seem to be mixed with other fragances (orange, vanilla)...

 

[Orang Utan]

You were probably told that when you were younger, the same as you were probably found under a gooseberry bush

Aye!
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=152476

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

As you can imagine it was a complete & utter disaster in all ways & the damage to that corner of Africa & its economy helped precipitate serious oppisition to UK dominion & independance a few years later.

All for nuts!

Nutters

 

[WouldBe]

Where was that then?

Stick some peanuts in a plant pot and keep on a windowsill. You can grow them in the UK. Just don't expect loads of them.

 

[Wolfie]

... and fish don't have fingers!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I found this in the UK, wonder if it could be used on the skin, rather than using the oil on the 'Soap Flower'... I don't see why not, unless one has sensitive skin...

cinnamon oil

All the cinnamon perfumes I've found so far seem to be mixed with other fragances (orange, vanilla)...

maybe you should dilute it with alcohol

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

... and fish don't have fingers!!!

are you on the wrong thread Wolfie?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Stick some peanuts in a plant pot and keep on a windowsill. You can grow them in the UK. Just don't expect loads of them.

are you winding me up?

salted or unsalted?