It is a recent introduction to India and shortly occupied as a prime oil seed crop, due to high heterosis. Number of hybrids developed by the public & private sector. It has a wider adaptability. It is a photo-insensitive crop thus it can be grown round the year. The oil is ediblmore...
The botanical name for the coconut is cocos nucifera , with cocos believed to come from Spanish, meaning “monkey-faced” or “eerie-faced” and nucifera from Latin meaning nut-bearing plant (from fero = I bear and nux-nucis = nut). It’s nut, perhaps bearing three germinamore...
Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula. These are long-lived pachycauls; radiocarbon dating has shown some individuals to be over 2,more...