Cannabis

marijuana) refers to the use of cannabis and its constituent cannabinoids, to treat disease or improve symptoms. Cannabis is used to reduce nausea and [...] About Cannabis is an annual, dioecious, flowering herb. The leaves are palmately compound or digitate, with serrate leaflets. Cannabis is an annual plant [...] plant that has a growth period of April – September in outdoor cultivation. Indoor cultivation (hydroponic or soil) is grown on a continuous basis. Cannabis

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Melon

fleshy fruit. The term "melon" is used for the plant, but also to identify the fruit. Botanically speaking, the melon (the fruit) is actually a berry, or more [...] Cucurbitaceae Melon About A melon can be any one of several plants belonging to the family of Cucurbitaceae . The melon plant produces a usually sweet and edible [...] specifically even, a "pepo". Nowadays many different cultivars are being produced on a commercial scale, especially muskmelons. The most common species

Peach

for its fruit. The description ‘persica’ refers to the popularity of the tree in Persia when it was introduced there. The tree’s fruit is usually sweet [...] juicy and it is called peach or nectarine. The peach belongs to the genus Prunus (just like the cherry, apricot, almond and plum) and the rose family. [...] Prunus persica Peach About The so-called Prunus persica is a deciduous tree indigenous to Northwest China. There is was first domesticated and cultivated

Blackberry

Blackberry About The blackberry is an edible fruit that originates from a wide range of species belonging to the genus Rubus that is part of the family of Rosaceae [...] within the Rubus subgenus, and hybrids between the Rubus and Idaeobatus subgenera. The blackberry is actually not a berry botanically speaking. It is a so-called

Banana

Banana About The banana ( Musa spp.) is a nutritious fruit that grows from various large, herbaceaous flowering plants belonging to the genus Musa . [...] Botanically speaking the fruit is a berry and it varies in colour, size and firmness. Bananas mostly are elongated and curved. Its flesh is soft, rich in starch [...] (usually easy to peel) can be green or yellow, or red, purple or brown when ripe. Bananas grow in bunches downwards from the top of the plant. Nowadays

Grow your own vegetable garden

in order to meet their dietary needs to enable them to lead a healthy and active life.” According to a 2017 study, nearly 20% of SA households, a total of [...] garden The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations defines food security as “ a condition within which all people have access to adequate [...] inadequate access to food. Agriculture is core to every person’s story, mother, father, child, commercial or emerging farmer. An increase in the involvement

Western flower thrips

cause damage to plants by piercing the cells of the surface tissues and sucking out their contents, causing the surrounding tissue to die. The resulting [...] silver-grey patches on leaves and the black dots of their excreta indicate their presence in the crop. The vigour of the plant is reduced by loss of chlorophyll [...] thrips General The western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) is currently the most damaging thrips species in many greenhouse crops. The western flower

Gerbera

About The gerbera belongs to the family of daisies or Asteraceae . The flowering plant is originally from South Africa and grew among others in the Cape [...] Nowadays, the gerbera is still popular and extensively used as a decorative garden plant or sold as cut flower. Domesticated cultivars are usually the result [...] result of crossing the Gerbera jamesonii with another species from South Africa, the Gerbera viridifolia. The result is generally known as Gerbera hybrida

Eggplant

Africa and Southeast Asia it is known as brinjal. The eggplant is a member of the genus Solanum and is thus related to the tomato and potato. Botanically [...] Solanum melongena ) is a specific species of nightshade and is widely produced for its tasty fruit. In North America and Australia the fruit is called eggplant [...] Botanically speaking however, the eggplant is classified as a berry. The fruit contains many small and soft seeds. These seeds taste rather bitter, because they