Telfairia occidentalis is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. Common names for the plant include fluted gourd, fluted pumpkin, ugu, and ikong-ubong. T. occidentalis is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family and is indigenous to southern Nigeria.
It is also a good source of Calcium, and a very good source of Protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Copper and Manganese.
nineteen percent of the RDA of vitamin C. ten percent or more of the RDA of vitamin E, riboflavin, potassium, copper, and manganese. at least 5 percent of thiamin, B-6, folate, pantothenic acid, niacin, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus
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Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro. It is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants.
The corms/roots can be dried and used to make flour or sliced and fried to make chips. The leaves of the plant are also edible and are usually consumed as a vegetable after cooking in dishes such as stews, pounded or simply blended and serenaded .
Both the Root and Leaves Can Do Wonders for Your Health. Taro root's benefits come from its rich source of nutrients, which include magnesium, iron, fiber, potassium, manganese, zinc, copper and phosphorus. It contains good amounts of antioxidants, as well as vitamins A, B6, C and E.
Top Quality 100 % Natural Cobaiba Balsam Oleoresin from Copaifera malmei trees located in Amazonia, Brazil. Packaged in Brazil totally natural and organic exactly as it comes from the trees. This oil is harvested between September and November by tapping the bark. Other than a small hole in the trunk there is no damage to the these very large trees.
Ricinus communis can vary greatly in its growth habit and appearance. The variability has been increased by breeders who have selected a range of cultivars for leaf and flower colours, and for oil production. It is a fast-growing, suckering shrub that can reach the size of a small tree, around 12 m (39 ft), but it is not cold hardy.
The glossy leaves are 15 45 cm (5.9 17.7 in) long, long-stalked, alternate and palmate with five to twelve deep lobes with coarsely toothed segments. In some varieties they start off dark reddish purple or bronze when young, gradually changing to a dark green, sometimes with a reddish tinge, as they mature. The leaves of some other varieties are green practically from the start, whereas in yet others a pigment masks the green color of all the chlorophyll-bearing parts, leaves, stems and young fruit, so that they remain a dramatic purple-to-reddish-brown throughout the life of the plant. Plants with the dark leaves can be found growing next to those with green leaves, so there is most likely only a single gene controlling the production of the pigment in some varieties. The stems and the spherical, spiny seed capsules also vary in pigmentation. The fruit capsules of some varieties are more showy than the flowers.
The green capsule dries and splits into three sections, forcibly ejecting seeds
The flowers are borne in terminal panicle-like inflorescences of green or, in some varieties, shades of red, Monoicous flowers without petals. The male flowers are numerous, yellowish-green with prominent creamy stamens; the female flowers, borne at the tips of the spikes, lie within the immature spiny capsules, are relatively few in number and have prominent red stigmas.
The fruit is a spiny, greenish (to reddish-purple) capsule containing large, oval, shiny, bean-like, highly poisonous seeds with variable brownish mottling. Castor seeds have a warty appendage called the caruncle, which is a type of elaiosome. The caruncle promotes the dispersal of the seed by ants (myrmecochory).
Gloriosa superba is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. We have sun dried Gloriosa seeds which have Low moisture content and can be used in pharmaceutical grade.
Henna plant is considered as a therapeutic plant. All aspects of this plant like leaves, blooms, bark and even seeds are utilized as a part of ayurvedic and additionally unani meds. The counter popular and hostile to contagious properties of henna leaves are fit to keep us far from numerous contaminations and maladies. On the off chance that you are experiencing throbbing cerebral pain, at that point delicate back rub with henna oil can demonstrate much valuable. Numerous skin sicknesses disease, dermatitis, scabies and parasitic contaminations be treated with the assistance of henna leaves glue or henna oil. Warmth consumes or warm bubbles can be cured with henna leaves glue. It can likewise treat swelling and irritation in skin. The patients who are enduring solid torment can be cured by applying oil separated from henna blossoms.
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