http://www.babasgarden.net/ We have to take care of each and every flower in this universe. en Copyright 2007 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:30:52 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss An emergent rainforest palm, it is found cross large areas of south-eastern Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, and Paraguay. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/palm_euterpe_edulis.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/palm_euterpe_edulis.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:30:52 -0500 There are literally hundreds of species of palm trees that oftentimes dominate the vegetation of regularly flooded rainforest lands in the Amazon. Up to seven thousand palm trees per acre have been recorded in some areas of the rainforest. The Palm family, with over 1200 species split into 32 generic groups, is one of the most useful families of plants and widely used by rainforest inhabitants. Palm trees have long provided a range of products including food, beverages, cooking oil, clothing, construction materials, tools, weapons and household wares. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/palm_euterpe_from_brazil.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/palm_euterpe_from_brazil.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:27:24 -0500 Most of the dozen or more species of the genus Phoenix (family Palmae) are grown as ornamental palms indoors or out. Only the common date, P. dactylifera L., is cultivated for its fruit. Often called the edible date, it has few alternate names except in regional dialects. To the French, it is dattier; in German, it is dattel; in Italian, datteri; or dattero; in Spanish, datil; and, in Dutch, dadel. The Portuguese word is tamara.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/date.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/date.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:16:20 -0500 Date Palms, Merzouga, Morocco. The Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera is a palm, extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. Due to its long history of cultivation for fruit, its exact native distribution is unknown, but the date palm probably originated somewhere in the desert oases of northern Africa, and perhaps also southwest Asia. It is a medium-sized tree, 15-25 m tall, often clumped with several trunks from a single root system, but also often growing singly. The leaves are pinnate, 3-5 m long, with spines on the petiole and about 150 leaflets; the leaflets are 30 cm long and 2 cm broad. The full span of the crown ranges from 6-10 m. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/date_palm_phoenix_dactylifera.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/date_palm_phoenix_dactylifera.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:03:45 -0500 Image of a papyrus plant]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/image_of_a_papyrus_plant.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/image_of_a_papyrus_plant.html Composting Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:41:12 -0500 Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First dynasty), but it was also widely used throughout the Mediterranean region, as well as inland parts of Europe and south-west Asia.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/papyrus_cyperus_papyrus.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/papyrus_cyperus_papyrus.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:33:44 -0500 The "Lone Cypress" near Monterey, California. Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterey Cypress, Macrocarpa) is a species of cypress endemic to the central coast of California. In the wild, the species is confined to two small populations, near Monterey and Carmel. These groves are protected, within Point Lobos State Reserve and Del Monte Forest. The natural habitat is noted for its cool, humid summers, almost constantly bathed by sea fog.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_monterrey_cupressus_ma.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_monterrey_cupressus_ma.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:26:56 -0500 Fitzroya is a genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae with a single species, Fitzroya cupressoides native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and adjoining Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests. The scientific name of the genus honours Robert FitzRoy; common names include Lahuan (the Mapuche Native American name), Alerce (South American Spanish), and Patagonian Cypress.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_fitzroya.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_fitzroya.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:13:13 -0500 Callitris is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are 15 species in the genus, of which 13 are native to Australia and the other two (C. neocaledonica, C. sulcata) native to New Caledonia. The most widely used common name is cypress-pine, a name shared by the closely related genus Actinostrobus.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_callitris_columellaris.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/cypress_callitris_columellaris.html Plants Required Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:07:05 -0500 The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaves 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth. The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_still_more_info.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_still_more_info.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:05:56 -0500 Coconut is one of the ten most useful trees in the world, providing food for millions of people, especially in the tropics. At any one time a coconut palm has 12 different crops of nuts on it, from opening flower to ripe nut. At the top of the tree is the growing point, a bundle of tightly packed, yellow-white, cabbage-like leaves, which, if damaged, causes entire tree to die, but if tree can be spared, this heart makes a tasty treat, a 'millionaire's salad'. Unopened flowers are protected by sheath, often used to fashion shoes, caps, even a kind of pressed helmet for soldiers. Opened flowers provide a good honey for bees. A clump of unopened flowers may be bound tightly together, bent over and its tip bruised. Soon it begins to 'weep' a steady dripping of sweet juice, up to a gallon per day. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_cocos_nucifera_l_areca.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_cocos_nucifera_l_areca.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:53:21 -0500 The coconut is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where wild relatives occur. ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_cocos_nucifera_l_and_a.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/coconut_cocos_nucifera_l_and_a.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:44:56 -0500 Sweet tamarind is grown mostly in Phetchabun. Sweet Tamarind Fair is thus organised in Phetchabun to celebrate the harvest of this fruit. This day is also called Phetchabun’s Agricultural Day. During the festival, farmers bring their sweet tamarind to sell at reasonable price at Phetchabun’s provincial athletic field where contests of sweet tamarind and other crops are held. Besides this, there are other agricultural exhibitions and entertainment organised during the event. Tamarind seedling ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/sweet_tamarind.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/sweet_tamarind.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:23:52 -0500 Thai name: Makham wan Scientific name: Tamarindus indica L. Season: December to March The fruit is, as the name suggests, a sweet variety of a fruit generally associated with an acid taste. After being peeled it is generally eaten fresh, though boiled in water it also makes a refreshing juice. Other, more sour varieties of tamarind are used in various cooked dishes for flavoring. Tamarind tree ]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/tamarind_makham_wan_from_thail.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/tamarind_makham_wan_from_thail.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:11:32 -0500 Thought to have originated from Africa, the sweet tamarind found its way to Arabia and Southeast Asia where it is considered to be a prized delicacy.]]> http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/sweet_tamarind_tamarindus_indi.html http://www.babasgarden.net/2006/10/sweet_tamarind_tamarindus_indi.html Plants Required Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:06:55 -0500