Tag: Fruits

This first-of-its kind palm plant flowers and fruits entirely underground

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Palm trees are often associated with Hollywood Boulevard and tropical resorts, but their relatives in the palm family Arecaceae can come in many different shapes and sizes. And one shuns the limelight to an almost absurd degree — the new-to-science Pinanga subterranea palm grows its flowers and fruit entirely underground.

“We knew immediately that it’s a really odd palm,” says Benedikt Kuhnhäuser, a botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in Richmond, England.

Malaysian botanist Paul Chai first noticed the palm

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The first citrus fruits may have come from southern China

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Citrus fruits’ hometown is in China, a genetic analysis suggests.  

An extensive look at wild members of the orange family tree hints that the first species in the Citrus genus arose around 8 million years ago in what’s now south central China, researchers report October 2 in Nature Genetics. The Citrus lineage’s ancestors may have first arrived in Asia on the Indian tectonic plate around 25 million years ago, when it collided with the Asian plate.

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Was ist am Montag, den 4. Oktober im Fernsehen zu sehen: ‘POV: Fruits of Labor’, PBS

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Die Nachbarschaft Als Gemma (Beth Behrs) Alexis (Gaststar Nicole Sullivan) an der Schule anstellt, ahnt Tina (Tichina Arnold), dass die neue Lehrerin nicht ganz die ist, für die sie sich ausgibt. Cedric the Entertainer und Max Greenfield spielen ebenfalls die Hauptrollen. 20 Uhr CBS

Die Stimme Blinde Auditions mit Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, John Legend und Blake Shelton werden fortgesetzt. 20 Uhr ABC

Roswell, New Mexico

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