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What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
- Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
- Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
- It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
- Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
- Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
- Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
- Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
- Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.
📚 Learn more about Pigeon Pea
🛒Grow your own Pigeon Pea Superfood
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How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?
Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)
Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)
- 🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
- 🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
- 🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck!
- 🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
- 🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.
📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck
🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.
🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine
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Why Dutchmans Pipe is the best butterfly attracting vine? Smell it!
Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe
Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe
Without any doubt, Aristolochia, or Dutchman's Pipe, is one of the best butterfly plants.
- 🍃 Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe is celebrated for its unique and intricate flowers that resemble Dutch smoking pipes, hence its name.
- 🍃Dutchman's Pipe flowers emit a scent mimicking decaying matter, which certain butterfly species, like the Pipevine Swallowtail, find irresistible 💩🙄
- 🍃The butterflies lay their eggs on the plant, as it serves as a suitable host for their larvae, contributing to the plant's ecological significance by promoting pollination and biodiversity.
- 🍃 As a result, it not only beautifies gardens but also supports local butterfly populations, enriching the ecosystem.
- 🍃 Beyond its distinctive appearance, it's valued for its historical use in traditional medicine, particularly for its alleged healing properties.
🛒 Bring butterflies to your garden!
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Why exotic Mamey fruit is so much wanted?
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, or Mamey Sapote - is Cuban favorite. It is considered by Cubans to produce the best fruit in the world.
🍹 The fruit has delicious bright orange soft flesh, sweet and pumpkin-like in flavor. The Mamey fruit is eaten fresh, in milk shakes and ice cream.
👀 Mamey has a curious growth habit: flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflorous - plants that flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.
🌳 Mamey is a slow growing, compact tree, but needs some space to spread the branches. It normally grows 20 ft in height and 20 ft wide.
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