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.