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You will never see blossoms on a fig tree. The fruit is the blossom — and it's actually an inverted flower. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig

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A perfect defense against bites....! Excepion: Aphids and mites, both sap-sucking insects, find aloe vera's bounty irresistible. There are several ways to deal with these pests of aloe vera plants, many of which do not require the use of pesticides. Check each aloe vera plant carefully to determine which ones are being attacked by pests.

They have climbed more than thousand time their height for a bite! ? The Ants is a zoology textbook by the German entomologist Bert Hölldobler and the American entomologist E. O. Wilson, first published in 1990. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991 This book is primarily aimed at academics as a reference work, detailing the ants' anatomy, physiology, social organization including their caste system, altruistic behaviour, and chemical communication with pheromones, their ecology (vital for turning the soil and controlling insect pests), and natural history . . . For Seneca, having some kind of definite aim in life was important, so he hotels, “They wander around without purpose, seeking business, and don’t pursue what they intended to do but only what they stumble upon.” He finally ends with this humorous jab: “Their wandering is aimless and without point, like ants crawling over bushes, up to the highest tip on a branch and then all the way back down” ~ Page 28

Flower of Solanum melongena

The creation of today’s domestic tomato was skilled feat of plant breeding, but one that requires many generations to accomplish. A wild species or race bred into the domestic stock also carries with its baggage of less desirable genes that reduce yield and quality. Breeders must delete these traits through repeated backcrossing, mating the hybrids back to the domestic strains, in a way that preserves only the desirable genes of both domestic and wild forms in the breeding stock. Finally conventional hybridization can be accomplished solely among species and strains similar enough to be bred together, as in the case of multiple parents of ‘Lycopersicon esculentium” Now, however, traditional selective breeding can be shot-circuites. New methods of genetic engineering have made it possible to transfer genes directly, excising them from the chromosomes of one species and placing them into the chromosomes of another species without hybridization of the entire genomes. . . . Page 448

That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare

Cucumber is another one of our most ancient vegetables. Cave excavations have revealed that cucumber has been grown as a food source for over 3000 years. Early cucumbers were probably very bitter because of compounds they contained called cucurbitacins.Mar 3, 2014 Source : Google search en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber

Thriving in 90 to 100 degree Fahrenheit (°F)

(Ficus carica), plant of the mulberry family (Moraceae) and its edible fruit. The common fig is indigenous to an area extending from Asiatic Turkey to northern India, but natural seedlings grow in most Mediterranean countries; it is cultivated in warm climates. In the Mediterranean region the fig is so widely used, both fresh and dried, that it is called “the poor man’s food.” The fruit contains significant amounts of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and iron. ~ Encyclopedia Britannica