About Orange Tree

Orange, the delectable pulpy fruit, belongs to the genus citrus, the other famous members of which include the lemon, lime and grapefruit.

The scientific name of the sweet variety of orange is citrus sinensis, while the bitter variety is called citrus aurantium. The name of the fruit is presumably derived from the Sanskrit Nāraṅgaḥ and Telugu Naringa, which after moving through different languages such as Persian, Armenian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Italian and French, ultimately become orange in English. The fruit is covered by a bright yellow to orange-colored skin, known as the epicarp and a thick, spongy mesocarp that lies beneath the epicarp. The internal part is called the pulp, which is divided into several individual segments, that contain the actual pulp and the juicy fruit. The orange plant is believed to be a native of Southeast Asia, mainly in southeast and northeast India. Different varieties were grown in both the regions of India, which dates back almost 7000 years. The fruit was mainly used in various dishes, for the excellent flavor that it imparts. Many historians are of the opinion that it was grown in the orchards of China by the beginning of the 1st century millennium. Soon, the nobility grew fond of this delightful fruit, which gave rise to a growing competition among cultivators to produce larger and tastier oranges in order to please them.
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About Sunflower

Helianthus, is the genus to which the sunflower belongs. It is a combination of two words viz., Helios meaning sun and Anthos meaning flower. It is the national flower of Ukraine and dates back to nearly 3000 years.

The Great Russian ruler Peter, while visiting Holland, was so fascinated by its charm, that he took sunflower seeds back with him to Russia. The first evidence of domestication of the sunflower as a crop comes from the region called Mesoamerica, as early as 2600 B.C. It has been found that the natives of this region consumed the seeds of the sunflower plant as they were rich in calcium. Apart from being used for consumption purposes, the plant had numerous other uses, especially for native Americans - a dye of yellow color was extracted from its petals, oil that was extracted was used for painting the body during religious ceremonies, the stems produced an extraordinarily light fiber, and the time of the blooming of the flowers determined dates in the hunting calendar. A sunflower head is made up of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers, that are joined at the base. The large petals that are found around the edge are individual ray flowers, which do not develop into seeds. A single sunflower can have up to 2,000 seeds.
A domesticated sunflower has a single stem and a large seed-head. This is in contrast to the wild variety that is highly branched with small heads and seeds. A sunflower plant can grow from 3 feet to 18 feet tall, and requires only 90 to 100 days to mature.

About Blueberry

It is a popular fruit the world over, which is why blueberry cultivation spread from the US to many other countries. The blueberry bush is native to North America. Technically, the blueberry is a flowering plant. It belongs to the Vaccinium genus and the Cyanococcus section. According to their sizes the blueberry plants are divided into two sections. The first is the wild blueberry or the "low bush blueberries". The second section is that of the "high bush blueberry". The average height of any blueberry bush is about 10 cm to 4 m. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen. The blueberry bush starts bearing fruits in late April and this continues till the month of June. The best quality of these berries are seen in July, which is the National Blueberry Month in nations like United States of America and Germany The diameter of a blueberry is about 5 to 16 mm. There is a flared up crown at the end of the fruit. The blueberry at the initial period of its growth is greenish in color. Tasting such a greenish berry is not very advisable as the berry tends to be very sour and sticky on the inside.

The berry then bears a reddish-purple kind of shade. The blueberries upon ripening, turn into a shade of indigo and also taste sweet, along with a slight tinge of sourness. By the end of June and beginning of July you can finally relish the blueberry.

About Cherry

The cherry fruit is part of the Rosaceae family which also includes almonds, peaches, apricots and plums.

They are small and fleshy, red or reddish black fruits that contain a hard seed on the inside. It is believed the Romans discovered this fruit in Asia Minor around 70 BC. They then introduced these cherries to Britain in the first century AD. Available in many species, the two kinds that are commonly eaten are the wild or sweet cherry Prunus avium and the sour cherry Prunus Cerasus. Cherries are known to have a very short fruiting season. Areas of Northern America see these cherries as the first ones to ripen amongst other fruits; therefore the term 'in cherry condition' has been derived which means something new.
Michigan has around 35,000 acres of tart cherry trees. This place grows almost 75% of the tart cherries which are produced in the United States. The Traverse City is therefore called the Cherry Capital of the World. Depending on the conditions of the growth, about 7,000 cherries grow on an average tart cherry tree. A cherry pie is made out of about 250 cherries. Thus, 28 pies can be made with the cherries from one tree.
150 to 200 pounds of tart cherries are produced annually in Michigan which has almost 4 million cherry trees.

About Raspberry

Raspberry agreeably tastes best in its original form as is the case with many other fruits, it can also be used to make some scrumptious desserts.

Raspberry can be grown in vegetable gardens or greenhouses. In terms of fruit bearing, there are two raspberry types, namely, June-bearing and fall. The former crop, as the name suggests, bears fruit in June or July; whereas, the latter crop is ever bearing and bears two harvests per season. For better crop yield, it is important that the fruits are not exposed to extreme climates like very hot or cold conditions. Besides this, if the soil is too wet, then the fruits are susceptible to fungal infections. Keeping this in mind, many cultivators prefer crop cultivation during spring or summer. For proper maintenance of the Raspberry plants, it is advisable to prune them to a manageable size using sharp garden tools. While doing so, it is advisable to wear thick gloves to protect from the thorns. Raspberry pruning is done twice a year, first in the late winter or early spring and second in summer.

About Strawberry

Strawberry is a small, sweet, fleshy red fruit dotted with small seeds and a tiny green leafy cap.

Strawberries are one of the most attractive fruits and a sure shot favorite of millions. This guide provides information and tips on growing strawberry plants, planting strawberry varieties, how to plant and grow strawberries in containers and hanging pots, and interesting facts about strawberries.The strawberry is a native plant of North America. The name 'strawberry', that it holds is derived from a farmers' practice of mulching the plant with straw. There is one more theory about the origin of the word strawberry. Strawberries being abundant in nature, was not cultivated as a cash-crop. Strawberries strewn among fallen leaves was a common sight in olden days. This might have led to the development of the word strawberry from the two words, 'strewn' and 'berries'. In England, children used to pick strawberries scattered in the wild and sell them in local markets. In order to handle them properly, the strawberries were tied to pieces of straws. Varieties of strawberries are also found in Europe. The history of strawberry in Italy can be traced back to 234 BC.

About Pear Tree

Pear trees start from seeds. The process is slow, taking several years to get from seedling to a small tree that can be transplanted in the soil.

It takes at least 4 years for a pear tree to reach maturity and start producing fruit.Slightly acidic soil that is well drained is the best place to position these trees. They do especially well in the cool temperatures but can also thrive in full sun, giving testament to their versatility.The particular type of pear tree is also a factor in the environment in which they do best. It's best to research the ideal growing conditions for each variety. Pears not only taste delicious, they are also part of a healthy diet. Containing high levels of vitamins A and C, as well as a significant level of copper and potassium, the pear can add important nutrients to the daily diet.

About Apple

The apple plant is known to have originated in Kazhakastan. From Kazhakastan, the apple spread to different parts of the world. Unlike the bigger apples of modern day, a typical apple fruit is small enough to fit in the palm. History of the fruit apple can be traced back to the Iron age. This widely cultivated fruit is known to have more than 7,500 cultivars.

Different Kinds of Apple:

Red Delicious Apples: This apple variety has a deep red color and thick skin. The apple skin is bitter in taste and its edible portion has a crispy texture. This popular cultivar is preferred over local varieties by farmers. Unlike the rounder varieties, the red delicious apples are thinner. It is best eaten when in the raw state. One shouldn't use this apple variety for baking.

Honey Crisp Apples: It is one of the different type of apples with sweet taste and crispy in the edible portion. Farmers have started growing this apple variety from the 1990s, it is a cultivar produced by crossing the Macaun and Honeygold varieties. Apart from fresh-eating, this apple finds its use in salads, baking, sauces and many other dishes.

Granny Smith Apples: The sweetness and tartness of Granny Smith apples is well-balanced, which is one of their specialties. These green colored apples are durable and retain their freshness throughout the shipping journey. It is possible to store the Granny Smith apples for about 6 months in cold storage. It is one of the different types of apples used for fresh-eating. The applesauce made from this type is considered to be very good.

About Grape Plant

There are more than 60 species and 8000 varieties of grapes all over the world. Some common varieties of grapes are blue, black, green, red, golden, blue-black, white and purple.

The main two types of grapes are European and American. They come in seedless and seeded varieties.
American grapes are available in September and October, while European grapes are available round the year.The Thompson Seedless is the best selling grape in the USA. Golden raisins are prepared from these types of grapes.The production of grapes is more than 72 million tons all over the world. There are approximately 25 million acres of grapes throughout the world.It takes about 2½ pounds of grapes to produce a bottle of wine.Grapes consist of about 80% of water, which make them a low-calorie snack or dessert. Raisins or dried grapes consist of about 15% of water. It contain flavonoids that give vibrant purple color to grapes, red wine and grape juice.One grape cluster has on an average 75 grapes.
One grape vine can grow up to 50 feet long and can have about 40 clusters of grapes.Eating too many grapes can give a laxative effect. Fresh grapes can be stored in the refrigerator for about 2-3 days, when kept in a plastic bag or a covered container.

About Litschibaum Tree

The Litschibaum or Litchibaum (Litchi chinensis) is a tree species from the family of the soap tree plants (Sapindaceae).

It is the only kind of the kind Litchi. The fruits of the tree are called likewise Litschi or Litsch (Chinese: lizhi). Further designations read Chinese Haselnuss, Litschipflaume or dear fruit.The Litschibaum is resident in south China; it becomes there already since approximately 1000 v. Chr. bred. Today the Litschibaum is cultivated world-wide in the subtropical climate zones, among other things in Taiwan, India, Thailand, South Africa, Madagascar, Australia, Israel, Mexico and the USA.The Litschibaum is an evergreen tree, which becomes high about 15 to 20 meters. It is very frost sensitive and cannot prosper therefore in Central Europe not in the free one.An individual tree can carry annually 100 to 200 kg fruits. The very coolingsensitive fruits have a diameter from 3 to 5 cm. The thin, outside very rough bowl is for pink or reddish colored and becomes brownish with older fruits. It becomes only hard after the harvest. The Fruchtfleisch is translucently perlmuttfarbig, firmly, juicy, sweetly and smells very strongly. It contains a smooth seed, which is ungeniessbar. The taste of the Litschi depends strongly on the Reifegrad. Overripe fruits have very much taste, while unreife fruits are relatively tasteless. Litschis are nichtklimakterische fruits, mature thus after the harvest no more after.

About Lepidothamnus Tree

Lepidothamnus is a kind with three kinds in the family of the (Podocarpaceae) within the resinous wood plants (Pinophyta). The kinds were in former times in the then polyphyletischen kind Dacrydium contained to de Laubenfels (1969) this kind into several monophyletische divided.

There is bushes or small these kinds is getrenntgeschlechtig, (dizisch) or monzisch. The sheets are not needle-shaped but them have in the youth phase lanzettliche sheets, later sheets, which are crude and leather-like.The ungestielten, male taps sit individually at the branches. The female taps sit individually at the ends of the branches, with in each case to two fertilen Zapfenschuppen. At the dark seeds, which mature in the second year, is a small asymmetrical Arillus.The area of the kind Lepidothamnus is strongly disjunkt: a kind is endemic in southern Chile (fire country) and the other two kinds are domestic in New Zealand .

About Lemon Tree

The lemon (Citrus limon) is a Zitruspflanze with fruit big as a fist, oblong oval with yellow or green yellow bowl, Fruchtfleisch with very sour taste (citric acid) and high Vitamin C part.

It grows at a Type.Lemon juice is used variously for the preparation by meals and beverages, sees Limonade.Die abraded bowl of the lemon gladly as aromatizing added in the kitchen and when baking used, sees lemon yellow. To the consumption suitably is only the bowl of an untreated lemon; however before transport are covered for a waxlike usually with protective layer and the bowl become with preservatives such as Biphenyl (E230) or thiabendazol (E233) sprays. The consumption of these treated bowls is unhealthy. Lemon laurel and lemon sheets are used particularly in the Thai kitchen.Lemon trees prosper in excavator buckets also in Central Europe, if one walten something care leaves; in former times they were a firm component of Orangerien. A botanische characteristic of the lemon tree is that this carries blooms all year round at the same time as fruits.

About Lebanon Oak Tree

The Lebanon oak (Quercus libani) is a kind of deciduous tree from the kind of the oaks (Quercus) in the family of the beech plants.It is resident in Syria and small Asia. In Central Europe she is to be seen only rare in botanischen collections (Arboretum).The Lebanon oak reaches a stature height of approximately 20 M. you forms an open, crown of tree. The crust is dark grey; the tears are orange. The branches are olive-brown, the buds orange brown. The are lanzettlich formed, 10 to 10 cm long and about 3 cm broad; they have 10 to 12 pairs of nerves and at the edge triangular teeth, which end in short bristles. The sheets are darkly shine green on the top side. The acorns sit on a very thick and short handle; they are about 2.5 cm thickly.

About Liver Sausage Tree

The liver sausage tree (Kigelia africana) is originally from west Africa. It is today however in completely Africa common.

It becomes about 18 m highly and has a broad, shade-PEND-ends crown. The crust is smooth with younger trees, with old against it drops the crust like sheds.It carries for him the typical, up to a meter of long fleshy, sausage-similar fruits. Their surface is strongly roughened up. Since the fruits contain much water, they can have a weight between five to eight kg. Into fibrous fruit Mark numerous seeds are embedded. Unreife of fruits are particularly poisonous. Fruits mature against it for beer brewing are used and/or during hunger emergencies also eaten.The large variant-rich blooms have a diameter of approximately 13 cm. Their colors are enough of kastanienbraun over wine-red, lilagelb to brown violet with yellow strips or dark red points. The blooms produce, if they open in the evening, a considerable quantity of Nektar, which flows for humans an unpleasant smell. The bats however are attracted by this smell and dust so the Type on the next morning are often already withered the blooms and to serve the shrub pigs and as food.

About Long-lived Kiefer Tree

The long-lived Kiefer (Pinus longaeva), also long-lived Grannenkiefer mentioned, is a kind of coniferous tree in the kind of the Kiefern (Pinus) from the family of the (Pinaceae).

Until approximately 1970 it was regarded as a local of the Grannen Kiefer (Pinus aristata); 1971 one separated it as own kind Pinus longaeva.The long-lived Kiefer is domestic in California, Utah and Nevada and grows there in mountain regions. The occurrence is world-famous in the White Mountains in eastern California, since several over 4000 years old copies stand there.The long-lived Kiefer 5 to 15 m highly and reached thereby master diameters of up to 2,5 m (in exceptional cases to 3.6 m). The crust is lightorange. The needles stand too fifth and are 2.5 to 4 cm long. The needles are dark green on the top side to cyan. The needles of the long-lived Kiefer can become old until 45 years.The taps are 5 to 10 cm long and 3 to 4 cm broad. Each Zapfenschuppe carries for 2 to 5 mm long a thorn.

About Lawsons Scheinzypresse

The Lawsons Scheinzypresse (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) is a tree, which belongs to the kind of the Scheinzypressen (Chamaecyparis) within the (Cupressaceae).

The original circulation area (primary area) lies in the southwest of the USA. It preferentially here heavy-rainfall Hanglagen and particularly occurs at the Pacific coast. The tree becomes here up to 65 meters high, to Europe imported reaches however only 30 meters stature height.
In Europe Lawsons Scheinzypresse is popular as Zierbaum. Meanwhile exist several to culture places like the Aurea or theGlauca.

About Laurel Pasture Tree

The laurel pasture (Salix pentandra) (pentandra = with five is a tree from the kind of the pastures.

The laurel pasture is to be found more frequently common in river valleys and Auen than in gardens and parks and in Europe far.Characteristic those are shining branches and those shining dark-green, unterseits bluish-white sheets. From many other kinds of pasture the lightyellow male appear deviating only after complete development of the sheets. The laurel pasture becomes breitkronig as an alone standing tree, but slim and relatively highly (12 m) in the existence.

About Larches Tree

The larches (Larix) form a plant kind in the family of the (Pinaceae). They are the most important trees of the northern jungles.All kinds of larch are summer green, throw thus in the late autumn their needles off (needle-shaped sheets). At a short shoot is 10 to 60 is it one of the two not evergreen kinds within the (Pinaceae). Besides they possess taps, which remain also after scattering the seeds at the tree. The taps stand (at a short, curved handle) upright at the branch. Dusting and seed-ripe effected in same Jahr.Die the small seed are winged. They have four to eight (Kotyledonen). The European larch reaches a height of approx. 35-40 M.The larch is a tree of the high situations. Temperatures of - "°C it gets over 40 just like high-summer heat. The requirements for nutrient are to be called small to means. Only on very nutrient-poor Sanden it is not to be found. The requirements for water are not also particularly high; it settled freshness to moderately fresh, in addition, dry locations. Even on Kalkrendzinen it still comes to a sufficient water supply, if the gaps are through rootable.

About Lagarostrobos Franklinii or Huon Pine

Lagarostrobos franklinii (in the English linguistic area one uses the name Huon Pine or Macquarie Pine) is the only tree species in the monotypical kind Lagarostrobos from that the (Podocarpaceae).

The kind was ranked before the revision by C.J.Quinn 1982 among the kind Dacrydium.Lagarostrobos franklinii is domestic in Tasmanien. Their locations are to mountain-slopes close of the southern and western coasts because of river courses and moisten, in altitudes between 150 and 600 m NN. There is evergreen, pyramidal wachsende trees, which can reach stature heights of 21 to 30 m and master diameters from 70 to 100 cm. The crust is grey. The assimilation organs are not as with all Podocarpaceae needles, but narrow ledrige sheets. The are and only about 1 mm long. They look nearly like the sheets of Zypressen, clearest difference to it are the white Stomata on the back of the Lagarostrobos sheets. The very small taps sit at the end of the branches; they have only four to eight sheds. The roundish seeds have a diameter of only about 2 mm.

About Douglas Fir

Hybrid cottonwoods (Populus deltoides x P. nigra, called P. x canadensis) are by far the fastest growers and for that reason often the tallest trees, 100 to 120 feet is normal, some will be 130 to 140 feet.

Of native trees in Holland beech (Fagus sylvatica) often is the tallest. In planted stands of 150 to 250 years old near estates of the 18th and 19th century on good soils and more inland, so not to exposed to prevailing winds, they often are 100 to 115 feet, but on the best soils they grow up to 130 or even 140 feet. I measured a fallen beech at 42 meter, 137.8 feet, in an area belonging to a castle with tall alleys and forests.