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L / Meɪz/ Spanish Taino English Grain Indigenous Peoples Mesoamerica

The document provides information about several different plants - corn, eggplant, bottle gourd, cauliflower, onion. It discusses details about the origins, characteristics and uses of each plant. For example, it notes that corn has 800 kernels on average in 16 rows, eggplant is related to tomatoes and potatoes, and bottle gourds were used as bottles after being harvested mature and dried.

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L / Meɪz/ Spanish Taino English Grain Indigenous Peoples Mesoamerica

The document provides information about several different plants - corn, eggplant, bottle gourd, cauliflower, onion. It discusses details about the origins, characteristics and uses of each plant. For example, it notes that corn has 800 kernels on average in 16 rows, eggplant is related to tomatoes and potatoes, and bottle gourds were used as bottles after being harvested mature and dried.

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CORN

Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays, pronounced /mez/; from Spanish: maz after Taino mahiz,) known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a graindomesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times.
The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. There is one piece of silk for each kernel. A bushel of corn contains about 27,000 kernels. Each tassel on a corn plant releases as many as 5 million grains of pollen. Corn is an ingredient in more than 3,000 grocery products. One bushel of corn can make 33 pounds of sweetener, 32 pounds of starch, or 2 1/2 gallons of ethanol fuel.

EGGPLANT
The eggplant, aubergine, melongene, patlican, brinjal or guinea squash (Solanum melongena) is a plant of the family Solanaceae (also known as the nightshades) and genusSolanum. It bears a fruit of the same name, commonly used in cooking. As a nightshade, it is closely related to the tomato and potato and is native to Indiais a member of the nightshade family and is native to India. The early varieties were bitter, but cultivation and crossbreeding have greatly improved the flavor. Eggplant is related to potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. Eggplant isn't a particularly popular vegetable in the United States, but it's a favorite in many areas of the South. Thomas Jefferson, who experimented with many varieties of plants in his Virginia garden, is credited with introducing eggplant to North America. In various parts of Europe, people suspected that eating eggplant caused madness, not to mention leprosy, cancer, and bad breath, which is why eggplant was used mostly for decoration in England and the United States nearly up to the 20th century..[1][2]

BOTTLE GOURD
Lagenaria siceraria or Lagenaria vulgaris, the calabash, bottle gourd, opo squash orlong melon is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as avegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, the calabash is widely known as the botThe Bottle gourd belongs to the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae). In its wild form it is bitter and inedible, but cultivation and selection have made it into a sweet and valuable food crop. Also called bottle squash and calabash gourd, the bottle gourd is a well traveled vegetable. And they can survive in salt water for more than 6 months. There are dozens of cultivars with wide variation in size, color, shape, timing of fruit, etc. Sizes range from 4 inches to 40 inches in length and 2 inches to 12 inches in diameter. Neck length can by up to 15 inches. Bottle gourds probably originated in Africa, but there are remains in Peru dating to 10,000 B.C. Remains have been found in Egypt, India, New Zealand, Mexico, Indonesia, China, and Florida. It probably floated on the seas in it's long travels. tle gourd.

CAULIFLOWER
Cauliflower is one of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea, in the familyBrassicaceae. It is an annual plant that reproduces by seed. Typically, only the head (thewhite curd) of aborted floral meristems is eaten, while the stalk and surrounding thick, green leaves are used in vegetable broth Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea) is a Cole crop, a member of the cabbage family that also includes Brussels sprouts, collards, mustard, turnips, kohlrabi, kale and watercress. In France it is called chou fleuri. According to Mark Twain "Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage There are also green and purple varieties of cauliflower. Another newer member of the family is Broccoflower, a cross between broccoli and cauliflower.with a college education."or discarded.

ONION
The onion (Allium cepa), also known as the bulb onion,[1] common onion[2] and garden onion,[citation needed] is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.[3] The genusAllium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion (A. fistulosum), Egyptian onion (A.proliferum), and Canada onion (A. canadense).[2] The name "wild onion" is applied to a number of Allium spThe onion is believed to have originated in Asia, though it is likely that onions may have been growing wild on every continent. Dating back to 3500 BC, onions were one of the few foods that did not spoil during the winter months. Our ancestors must have recognized the vegetable's durability and began growing onions for food. The onion became more than just food after arriving in Egypt. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the onion, believing that its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternity. Of all the vegetables that had their images created from precious metals by Egyptian artists, only the onion was made out of gold. Today, onions are used in a variety of dishes and rank sixth among the world's leading vegetable crops.ecies.

ONION
In January 2009, President Sean Mills left the company explaining that "the time has come for a new challenge."[12] In April 2009, The Onion was awarded a Peabody Award that noted "the satirical tabloid's online send-up of 24-hour cableTV news was hilarious, trenchant and not infrequently hard to distinguish from the real thing."[13]

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