Friday, July 19, 2013

Zucchini


Common Name: Zucchini
Botanical Name: Zucchini / courgett
In North America,Australia,Germany and Seandinaviia the plant is commonly called a zucchini (The name courgette French  pronunciationis  (Kut) a  French Lian word and is commonly used in, among others  Great Britanin, Ireland,New Zealand, The Netherlands and Africa.In India it is called as 'Seemai Sorakkai'. In South Africa the fruit is typically harvested as a baby vegetable, approximately finger size, and referred to as baby marrows.
Zucchini, like all  spuash has its ancestry in the Americas. However, the varieties of squash typically called "zucchini" were developed in Italy, many generations after their introduction from the "New World".
In all probability, this occurred in the very late 19th century, probably near  Milan  early varieties usually included the names of nearby cities in their names. The alternative name courgette is from the Frendh  word for the vegetable, with the same spelling, and is commonly used in France,  Ireand and United Kingdom  the It is a  deminutive of courge, French for squash. "Zucca" is the Italian  word for squash and "zucchina" is its diminutive, becoming "zucchine" in the plural.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Clover



Common Name : Clover


Botanical Name : Trifolium sp. (Clover)

The scientific name derives from the Latin tres, "three", and folium, "leaf", so called from the characteristic form of the leaf, which has three  Leaflets (trifoliate); hence the popular name   Trefoil    Clovers are used as food plants by the  larvae of some  Lepodopter (butterfly andmoth ) species; see  lost of Lopidoptera that feed on clover.
Clover (Trifolium),  or trefoil,  genuus is a of about 300  specjies of  Plants in the leguminous  pea family Fabacese. The genus has a  cosmopolitan distribution the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northerh Hemisphere, but many species also occur in  South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are small  annual viennial or short-lived  perennial herbaceous  plants. The leaves are trifoliate (rarely 5- or 7-foliate), with stipules adnate  to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the calucx. Other closely related genera often called clovers include  Melillotis (sweet clover) and  Medicago ( algalfa or 'calvary clover'). The   of popular iconography is sometimes considered to be young clover.



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Honeysuckle


Common Name :Honeysuckle
Botanical Name : Lonicera  periclvmenum
Honeysuckles are valued as garden plants, for their ability to cover unsightly walls and outbuildings, their profuse tubular flowers in summer, and the intense fragrance of many varieties. The hardy climbing types need their roots in shade, and their flowering tops in sunlight or very light shade. Varieties need to be chosen with care, as they can become substantial.
There are about 180 species of honeysuckle, 100 of which occur in China; Europe, India and North America, with about 20 native species each.
Honeysuckles (Lonicera  Caprifolium  Mill) are arching shrubs  or twining vines  in the family  Caprifoliaceae native to the Northern Hemisphere.
Widely known species include Lonicera Periclumenum  (honeysuckle or woodbine), Lonicera haponica  (Japanese honeysuckle, white honeysuckle, or Chinese honeysuckle) and  Lonicera sempervirens coral honeysuckle, trumpet honeysuckle, or woodbine honeysuckle). Hummingbirds are attracted to the flowers on some of these plants, especially L. sempervirens and L. ciliosa (orange honeysuckle). The name Lonicera stems from, a Renaissance botanist.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Bougainvillea


Common Name : Bougainvillea

Botanical Name : Bougainvillea spectabilis
The first European to describe these plants was  Philibert Connercon a French Botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antonine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation, and first published for him by  Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789. Twenty years after Commerçon's discovery, it was first published as 'Buginvillea' in Geneta Plantarum  by A.L de Jusseau in 1789. The genus was subsequently spelled in several ways until it was finally corrected to 'Bougainvillea' in the Index   Kewensi in the 1930s.They are thorny, woody Vines growing anywhere from 1 to 12 m (3 to 40 ft.) tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. The thorns are tipped with a black, waxy substance.
Bougainvillea also Known as Napoleon (Hinduras) Veranera (Colonvia.,Njicaragua ,El Salvador Costa Rica and Panama) Trinitaria (Colombia ,Cuba ,Panama,Puerti ,Rico, Dominican,Repulic and Vevezuela,Santa Rita (Argentina, Bolivia Paraguay and Uruguay) or Papelillo  ( Nortern Peru )  is a genus of flowering plants to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province).Different autors accept between four and 18 species in the genus.

Zinnia


Common Namne: Zinnia

Botanical Name : Honours genus
 
Zinnias are popular garden flowers, usually grown from seed, and preferably in fertile, Humus-rich, and well-drained soil, in an area with full sun. The flowers have a range of appearances, from a single row of petals, to a dome shape, with the colors white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red, purple, and lilac.Zinnia elegans, also known as Zinnia violacea, is the most familiar species, originally from Mexico and thus a warm–hot climate plant. Its leaves are lance-shaped and sandpapery in texture, and height ranges from 15 cm to 1 meter.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Elderflower


Common Name: Elderflower


Botanical Name: Elderflower cordial

Historically the cordial has been popular in North Western Europe where it has a strong Victorian heritage, however versions of an elderflower cordial recipe can be traced back to Roman times and nowadays it can be found in almost all of the former Roman Empire territory, predominant in Central Europe, especially in Germany, Austria, Romania and Hungary where people have acquired a special taste for it and still make it in the traditional way. In some countries the drink can be found as an aromatic syrup, sold as a concentrated squash that is mixed with still or sparkling water.
Elderflower are in season from the end of May to the beginning of June and grow in most of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They grow in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry fertile soils, though they primarily prefer sunny locations.