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• Bunium persicum
  ..., meaning "wild cumin") in [[Persian language|Persian]]. It is practically unknown outside these areas, and is not to be confused with the unrelated ''[[Nigel ...5 cm wide, bearing frilly leaves and hermaphroditic flowers, pollinated by insects and self-fertile.
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• Isle of Man cabbage
  ...was once abundant on the [[Isle of Man]], hence its name, however, for an unknown reason its [[population]] has collapsed to only a few individual and isolat ...he flowers have four leaves, are [[hermaphrodite]] and are pollinated by [[insects]]. ''C. m. monensis'' flowers [[April]]-[[August]].
  4 KB (538 words) - 03:58, 27 April 2007
• Root-Galls
  ...m root-gall is usually applied to the abnormal enlargement of roots due to insects and other animal organisms, it has a much wider application as used by most ...ition to these the causes of these enlargements are oftentimes obscure or unknown.
  5 KB (896 words) - 01:10, 29 December 2009
• Oenothera lamarckiana
  ...bout dusk and are immediately visited by the sphinx moths.—This species is unknown in the wild state. It is suspected by some of having had a horticultural or
  2 KB (387 words) - 16:56, 20 February 2010
• Fungi
  ...and has characters both of the cellulose of other plants and the chitin of insects. There are thousands of species of fungi, varying greatly in form and struc ...may. however, function as the other. They are disseminated by wind, water, insects, or by man himself.
  8 KB (1,325 words) - 10:25, 24 August 2009
• Cauliflower
  | image_caption = Cauliflower, cultivar unknown ...delicacy of the curd requires that the plants be kept perfectly free from insects which devour any portion of the plant.
  14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:48, 17 June 2009
• Lime
  ...ultivation of the lime is confined to regions where frosts are practically unknown. In the dormant or winter season, the trees respond very readily to rising ...oduced nor planted commercially. Their merits in a large way are therefore unknown. There is no question but that the careful selection, and propagation by bu
  8 KB (1,361 words) - 02:38, 12 December 2009
• Coconut
  ...including weevils and other beetles, the larvae of moths and butterflies, insects of other groups, and fungi. Damage is also done in places by crustaceans, a
  13 KB (2,099 words) - 00:14, 28 July 2009
• Endive
  Until recently endive has been almost unknown in American home gardens, but it is gradually receiving favor with salad-lo ...f which is often met with in American gardens. A few fungi and the spinach insects sometimes attack the plant. T. Greiner.
  7 KB (1,132 words) - 16:35, 21 September 2009
• Fungus
  ...and has characters both of the cellulose of other plants and the chitin of insects. There are thousands of species of fungi, varying greatly in form and struc ...may. however, function as the other. They are disseminated by wind, water, insects, or by man himself.
  12 KB (1,848 words) - 22:38, 25 August 2009
• Tecoma
  ...th its large fragrant flowers it is visited by numberless hummingbirds and insects. Owing to its rapid growth and dense foliage from the ground, the yellow el ...a Ricasoliana. — T. pentantha, offered by the S. Calif. Acclim. Assoc., is unknown to the writer. — T. pentaphylla, Juss. - Tabebuia pentaphylla. — T. rad
  8 KB (1,134 words) - 00:14, 20 April 2010
• Cycad
  ...n its first few million years, although the extent to which it radiated is unknown as relatively few fossil specimens have been found. The regions to which cy ...grows, the individuals furthest apart are prevented from interbreeding as insects have relatively small ranges and will not pollinate between these plants. I
  25 KB (3,697 words) - 14:21, 27 March 2007
• Pollen, Pollination
  ...wind. On the other hand, those plants largely dependent upon the visits of insects for pollination may have the pollen grains provided with some kind of spine ...ne another, to be blown about by an accidental wind or carried by visiting insects. In some cases, however, the grams are bound together loosely or by means o
  28 KB (4,451 words) - 15:41, 16 September 2009
• Bees
  '''Bees''' are flying [[insect|insects]], closely related to [[wasp|wasps]] and [[ant|ants]]. Bees are a [[monophy ...grams for [[mosquito]]es, [[gypsy moth]]s, or other [[Pest (animal)|pest]] insects.
  30 KB (4,832 words) - 16:55, 2 February 2010
• Radish
  ...na, and Japan could have originated from the charlock, since that plant is unknown in those countries and the radish has been grown there for centuries. It is ...nue the growing of radishes in that area for two or three years, until the insects have been starved out. The maggots may be killed by an injection of bisulfi
  26 KB (4,380 words) - 17:24, 24 December 2009
• Ash tree
  ...lsior and F. ornus. The ash is seldom severely injured, though a number of insects and fungi prey on the leaves and wood, of which two borers, and a fungus at ...h sides, 1 ½ -3 in, long: fls. in 10-fld. racemes; ovary pubescent. Origin unknown. — F. hybrida, Lingelsh. =F. pauciflora. — F. pauciflora, Nutt. (F. flo
  14 KB (2,059 words) - 02:04, 5 August 2010
• Birch
  ...armer climate than most other species. Their foliage is rarely attacked by insects, and turns to a bright or orange-yellow in fall. Their graceful habit, the ...bly serrate: scales of strobiles similar to those of B. papyrifera. Origin unknown.—B. luminifera, Winkl. Allied to B. alnoides. Lvs. ovate, subcordate at t
  14 KB (2,143 words) - 02:00, 9 February 2010
• Date
  ...cultivated for its edible sweet [[fruit]]. Although its place of origin is unknown because of long cultivation, it probably originated from lands around the [ ...ed under cheese - cloth to secure it from contamination by flies and other insects. Recent experiments by Drummond show that fumigation with carbon bisulfide
  31 KB (5,215 words) - 18:27, 14 April 2011
• Prune
  ...g in the open air. Curing in evaporators by artificial heat is practically unknown. The process of handling prunes, from the tree to the package, is outlined There are a number of insects which are troublesome to the prune. The San Jose scale attacks the tree, bu
  25 KB (4,376 words) - 01:08, 22 September 2009
• Common bean
  ...rijole, and these words are often found in our literature. Its nativity is unknown, but is probably of tropical American origin. For inquiries into the nativi Insects and diseases.
  38 KB (6,527 words) - 23:15, 2 February 2010

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