Saturday, November 24, 2007

List of culinary fruits. Herbaceous annuals fruits. Melons and other members of Cucurbitaceae or Solanaceae family

Some exceptions to the statement that temperate fruits grow on woody perennials are:
Gourds, including, but not limited to:
Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata)
Cushaw squash (Cucurbita mixta)
Hubbard squash, Buttercup squash (Cucurbita maxima)
Pumpkin, Acorn squash, Zucchini, Summer squash (Cucurbita pepovarieties)
Horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus)
Melon (Cucumis melo): cantaloupe, galia, and other muskmelons, honeydew

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Vegetable:

True cereals are the seeds of certain species of grass - Breadnut, Buckwheat, Cattail - According to the botanical definition, nuts are a particular kind of seed - Cycads, Ginkgo, Gnetum gnemon - Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products.

Banana:

In the current world marketing system, bananas are grown in the tropics where hurricanes are not common - The depiction of a person slipping on a banana peel has been a staple of physical comedy for generations - Because of the stereotypical image of monkeys and apes eating bananas, they have been used for racist insults, such as throwing bananas at sports players of African descent - The poet Bashō is named after the Japanese word for a banana plant - Ray Comfort uses the banana as a proof of the existence of a God.

Apples:

Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical and forbidden fruit - Commercially, apples can be stored for some months in controlled-atmosphere chambers to delay ethylene-induced onset of ripening - Applefest is a yearly three-day festival held in Franklin, Pennsylvania that starts the first Friday of October that attracts over 30,000 people - Apple picking is a recreational activity which occurs during harvest time in areas with apple farms - A cooking apple is an apple that is used primarily for cooking rather than eating fresh.

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