"Panama, Honduras, Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt. Galia melon The Galia melon, also known as sarda in Southeast Asia, is a type of F hybrid melon originating from a cross between the green-flesh melon cultivar 'Ha-Ogen' and the netted-rind melon cultivar 'Krimka'. Developed in Israel at the Ne´ve Yaar Research Center of the Agricultural Research Organisation by the melon breeder Dr. Zvi Karchi, and released in 1973, the Galia melon was named after Karchi's daughter, whose name means ""God's wave"" in Hebrew. The average weight for a Galia melon is one kilogram. They have a rounded shape, a dense netting"
"fruit is a berry covered in soft hairs. Galium clementis Galium clementis is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Santa Lucia bedstraw. It is endemic to the Santa Lucia Mountains of central California. This is a mat-forming perennial herb forming carpetlike dull green patches amongst the rock litter. The thick leaves are arranged in whorls of four, or occasionally six, about the stem. The foliage is covered thickly in gray hairs. The plant is dioecious, with male plants producing small clusters of staminate flowers and female plants producing solitary pistillate flowers;"
"Galium nuttallii Galium nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names San Diego bedstraw and climbing bedstraw. It is native to the coast and coastal Peninsular and western Transverse Ranges of southern California and Baja California, where it is a member of chaparral and pine woodland plant communities. It is also found on the Channel Islands and on the mainland as far north as Santa Barbara County ""Galium nuttallii"" is a climbing perennial herb producing a woody base and sprawling with thin, hanging green to red branches up to 1.5 meters long."
"Galium clementis Galium clementis is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Santa Lucia bedstraw. It is endemic to the Santa Lucia Mountains of central California. This is a mat-forming perennial herb forming carpetlike dull green patches amongst the rock litter. The thick leaves are arranged in whorls of four, or occasionally six, about the stem. The foliage is covered thickly in gray hairs. The plant is dioecious, with male plants producing small clusters of staminate flowers and female plants producing solitary pistillate flowers; both types of flower are generally yellow. The"
"Gala (apple) Gala is a clonally propagated apple cultivar with a mild and sweet flavor. ""Gala"" apples ranked at number 2 in 2006 on the US Apple Association's list of most popular apples, after ""Red Delicious"" and before ""Golden Delicious"", ""Granny Smith"", and ""Fuji"" (in order). The skin color of the fruit is non-uniform. Recently, The US Apple Association has projected that the Gala apple will become America's favorite apple. The ""Granny Smith"", ""Fuji"", and ""Honeycrisp"" apples are expected to rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively. Gala apples are vertically striped or mottled, overall orange in color. They are sweet,"
"become yellow at full maturity; they are sweet and aromatic, with a special aroma and flavor and a very high content of total soluble solids (values up to 18° are possible, although the minimum value to be considered commercially mature is 11°). Ripeness is measured not by softness at the stem, but rather by color and fragrance. Left at room temperature, Galias keep well, but after cutting, uneaten pieces should be wrapped and refrigerated to preserve taste. They are not particularly difficult to grow. Galias are now grown in Algeria, Brazil, Guatemala, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Southern US regions, Costa Rica,"
"product, not a true hybrid of two fruits. Grāpple Grāpple ( ) is the registered brand name for a commercially marketed brand of Fuji or Gala apple that has been soaked in a solution of food-grade concentrated grape flavor (methyl anthranilate) and water in an attempt to make the flesh taste like a Concord grape. This solution does not add additional sugars or caloric content, nor does it affect the nutritional value of a standard apple. All ingredients are USDA and FDA approved and the process has been licensed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Contrary to what the"
"individuals bearing either male or female flowers; the male flowers are produced in clusters and the female flowers are solitary. They are greenish-yellow and similar in appearance otherwise. The fruit is a berry. Galium andrewsii Galium andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names phloxleaf bedstraw, Andrews' bedstraw, and needlemat galium. It is native to California and Baja California, where grows in a number of dry habitats such as chaparral and woodland. ""Galium andrewsii"" is a low, clumping or mat-forming perennial herb growing no higher than about 22 centimeters. Narrow, needlelike green"
"The stems have whorls of four tiny sharp-pointed leaves at intervals, each leaf under a centimeter long. The plant is dioecious, with male and female individuals bearing different flower types. Both flowers are reddish, and the female flower ovary turns into a berry. Two subspecies are recognized as of May 2014: Galium nuttallii Galium nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names San Diego bedstraw and climbing bedstraw. It is native to the coast and coastal Peninsular and western Transverse Ranges of southern California and Baja California, where it is a member"
"flowers. The plant is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants, similar in appearance with greenish-yellow flower parts. The fruit is a nutlet covered in long bristly white or yellowish hairs. Eight subspecies are currently recognized (May 2014): Galium angustifolium Galium angustifolium is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name narrowleaf bedstraw. It is native to California (including the Channel Islands) and Baja California, where it is most commonly found at low elevations in the mountains. ""Galium angustifolium"" is a stocky perennial herb or small shrub growing from a woody base"
"During his second trip to the Americas, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus landed on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water. He called it ""Santa María de Guadalupe de Extremadura"", after the image of the Virgin Mary venerated at the Spanish monastery of Villuercas, in Guadalupe, Extremadura. The expedition set ashore just south of Capesterre, but left no settlers behind. Columbus is credited with discovering the pineapple on the island of Guadeloupe in 1493, although the fruit had long been grown in South America. He called it ""piña de Indias"", which can be correctly translated as ""pine cone of the Indies."" During"
"of staminate flowers and female individuals producing solitary pistillate flowers. The flowers are similar in appearance, with small pointed yellowish petals. The fruit is a soft berry. Galium grande Galium grande is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name San Gabriel bedstraw. This uncommon plant is endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, California. ""Galium grande"" is a large, tough perennial herb forming masses of hairy climbing stems from a woody base. Stems reach about half a meter in length and root where their nodes touch the ground. The small,"
"flowers with lavender lobes dotted with darker purple near the bases. Saltugilia caruifolia Saltugilia caruifolia (syn. ""Gilia caruifolia"") is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names carawayleaf gilia and caraway-leaved woodland-gilia. It is native to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California, where it grows in local habitat types such as chaparral. This herb produces a thin stem 12 centimeters to about a meter long. The leaves are up to 8 centimeters long at the base of the plant and divided into many finely subdivided lobes. The top of the"
"into the Roman period, and it was given as an exotic eastern delicacy by King Peter I of Cyprus to King Casimir the Great of Poland at the Congress of Kraków, held in Poland in 1364. Also popular is mahalepi;, a kind of blancmange made from corn flour usually flavoured with rose water or mahlep. Cyprus delights, or loukoumia (), are one of Cyprus's protected geographical indication (PGI) by the European Union. It is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar, flavored with lemon, rose water, mastic or other fruits with or without chopped dates,"
"are tangerine (mandarin)/pomelo or mandarin/grapefruit hybrids, orangelos result from grapefruit backcrossed with sweet orange, and a sweet orange backcrossed with a tangerine gives the tangor. One lumia, a member of the sweet lemons, is the product of crossing a lemon with a pomelo/citron hybrid, though another lumia variety, the Pomme d'Adam, is a micrantha/citron cross, like the Key lime. The most common and commercially popular 'limes', the Persian limes, are Key lime/lemon hybrids that combine the genetic lineages of four ancestral citrus species: mandarin, pomelo, citron and micrantha. While most other citrus are diploid, many of the Key lime hybrid"
"fruit clings to the branches on clustered stems long after the leaves have fallen. ""Malus coronaria"" var. ""coronaria""<br> ""Malus coronaria"" var. ""dasycalyx"" Pehr Kalm, who was one of the twelve men whom Linnaeus called his apostles and sent forth to explore the vegetable world, wrote from America: Malus coronaria Malus coronaria, also known by the names sweet crabapple or garland crab, is a North American species of ""Malus"" (crabapple). It grows primarily in the Great Lakes Region and in the Ohio Valley, with outlying populations as far away as Alabama, eastern Kansas, Long Island, and Ontario. ""Malus coronaria"" often is"
"Atemoya The atemoya, Annona × cherimoya, or Annona squamosa × Annona cherimola is a hybrid of two fruits – the sugar-apple (""Annona squamosa"") and the cherimoya (""Annona cherimola"") – which are both native to the American tropics. This fruit is popular in Taiwan, where it is known as the ""pineapple sugar apple"" (鳳梨釋迦), so is sometimes wrongly believed to be a cross between the sugar-apple and the pineapple. In Cuba it is known as ""anón"", and in Venezuela ""chirimorinon"". In Israel and Lebanon, the fruit is called ""achta"". In Tanzania it is called ""stafeli dogo"" (""mini soursop""). In Brazil, the"
"Ugli fruit The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange and a tangerine. Its species is ""Citrus reticulata"" × ""Citrus paradisi"". Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today. The name is a variation of the word ""ugly"", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside. UGLI is a registered trademark of Cabel Hall Citrus Limited, under which"
"dessert, ice cream or as a cream. Cupuí: This fruit is very appreciated and often used in drinks as juice and liqueurs. It is found a lot in Belenenses markets from February to May. Tapioca flour: It is consumed with açaí as porridge or dissolved in warm milk with sugar. Guava: It is consumed fresh or as ice cream or juice. The greens (tips of guava branches) are very used as tea to combat childhood diarrhea. Graviola: It is cultivated in backyards and on large plantations, consumed in its natural state or as ice creams, creams and cocktails leaves under"
"1739. The cantaloupe most likely originated in a region from South Asia to Africa. It was later introduced to Europe and, around 1890, became a commercial crop in the United States. The European cantaloupe, ""C. melo"" var. ""cantalupensis"", is lightly ribbed with a sweet and flavorful flesh and a gray-green skin that looks quite different from that of the North American cantaloupe. The North American cantaloupe, ""C. melo"" var. ""reticulatus"", common in the United States, Mexico, and some parts of Canada, is a different variety of ""Cucumis melo"", a muskmelon that has a ""net-like"" (reticulated) peel. It is a round"
"Saltugilia caruifolia Saltugilia caruifolia (syn. ""Gilia caruifolia"") is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names carawayleaf gilia and caraway-leaved woodland-gilia. It is native to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California, where it grows in local habitat types such as chaparral. This herb produces a thin stem 12 centimeters to about a meter long. The leaves are up to 8 centimeters long at the base of the plant and divided into many finely subdivided lobes. The top of the stem branches into an inflorescence dotted with many glands. It produces"
"below the peduncle. Each peduncle has three fruiting structures, each having a single fuzzy ball. Stems are square in cross-section. The entire vine does not feel very coarse, but it is rough enough to stick to clothing. This species is sometimes confused with ""Galium odoratum"", a species with traditional culinary uses. Galium triflorum Galium triflorum (also known as cudweed, sweet-scented bedstraw, and fragrant bedstraw) is a herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread in northern Europe (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia, Baltic States), eastern Asia (Kamchatka, Japan, Korea, Guizhou, Sichuan, India, Nepal) and North America (from Alaska and Greenland south"
"Garrya Garrya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Garryaceae, native to Mexico, the western United States, Central America and the Greater Antilles. Common names include silk tassel, and tassel bush They are evergreen dioecious wind-pollinated shrubs growing to tall. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, and are simple, leathery, dark green to gray-green, ovate, long, with an entire margin and a short petiole. The flowers are gray-green catkins, short and spreading when first produced in late summer; the male catkins becoming long and pendulous in late winter when shedding pollen, long; the female catkins usually a"
"Galium hardhamae Galium hardhamae (often misspelled """"Galium hardhamiae"""") (note added May 2014: ""hardhamiae"" is the correct spelling per Article 60C1 of the ICN) is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Hardham's bedstraw. It is endemic to the Santa Lucia Range of southern Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County in California. It is a member of the serpentine soils flora in these coastal mountains. This is a perennial herb forming mats or clumps of stems no more than 30 centimeters long. The stems have many whorls of six fleshy green leaves,"
"in whorls of four, in two pairs, about the stem at intervals. They are small, oval-shaped, and pointed. The plant is dioecious, and male and female flowers are similar, appearing in clusters of white to pinkish corollas at the ends of the stems. The fruit is a nutlet covered in very long, straight white hairs. Galium multiflorum Galium multiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names Kellogg's bedstraw, shrubby bedstraw, and many-flowered bedstraw. ""Galium multiflorum"" is native to the mountains, desert slopes, and plateaus of the Great Basin region and other drier"
"whorls of up to eight about the stem. It bears white flowers. The fruit is a hairless nutlet. Galium divaricatum Galium divaricatum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Lamarck's bedstraw. The plant is native to the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea region, from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and Crimea; as well as the Macaronesia archipelago of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, on the Azores, Canary Islands, and Madeira. It has naturalized in Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and scattered locations in the mainland United States. ""Galium divaricatum""is a small"
"are generally dull yellow. The fruit is a berry covered in soft hairs. Seven subspecies of ""Galium californicum"", all endemic to California, are currently recognized: One of the subspecies of the plant, the El Dorado bedstraw (""Galium californicum"" subsp. ""sierrae"") is CNPS−California Native Plant Society and State of California listed Rare plant species, and a federally listed Endangered species of the United States. It grows in the gabbro soils of the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve and surrounding area in the interior chaparral and woodlands of the Sierra Nevada foothills in El Dorado County, eastern California. It differs from ""Galium californicum"""
"Galium andrewsii Galium andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names phloxleaf bedstraw, Andrews' bedstraw, and needlemat galium. It is native to California and Baja California, where grows in a number of dry habitats such as chaparral and woodland. ""Galium andrewsii"" is a low, clumping or mat-forming perennial herb growing no higher than about 22 centimeters. Narrow, needlelike green to grayish leaves grow in whorls of four on the slender branches. Each is up to a centimeter long and has a sharp point tipped with a hair. The plant is dioecious with"
"distributed in Europe and the United States between November and April, and is on occasion available from July to September. Ugli fruit The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange and a tangerine. Its species is ""Citrus reticulata"" × ""Citrus paradisi"". Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today. The name is a variation of the word ""ugly"", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind,"
"ssp. ""californicum"" by its narrower leaves. Galium californicum Galium californicum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name California bedstraw. The plant is endemic to California. It grows mainly in moist, shady habitats in hills and mountainous areas, often within the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion. ""Galium californicum"" is a variable plant in the form of a small perennial herb to a sprawling woody-based shrub approaching in height. Its stems and small oval-shaped leaves are hairy. The plant is dioecious with male plants producing small clusters of staminate flowers and female plants producing"
"Ireland to Scandinavia, France, Germany, Poland, the Ukraine and Russia. It is also reportedly sparingly naturalized in Quebec, California and the Falkland Islands. Galium saxatile Galium saxatile or heath bedstraw is a plant species of the genus ""Galium"". It is related to cleavers (also known as sticky willy). ""Galium saxatile"" is a perennial matt-forming herb, found on grassland, moors, heaths and woods. It can reach a height of , and flowers in the UK from May to August. The stems are hairless and four sided. Its leaves are long, with 6–8 per whorl, and are lanceolate or obovate in shape."
"each leaf just 1 to 3 millimeters long. The inflorescences, clusters of yellow-green to pinkish flowers, appear in leaf axils. Galium hardhamae Galium hardhamae (often misspelled """"Galium hardhamiae"""") (note added May 2014: ""hardhamiae"" is the correct spelling per Article 60C1 of the ICN) is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Hardham's bedstraw. It is endemic to the Santa Lucia Range of southern Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County in California. It is a member of the serpentine soils flora in these coastal mountains. This is a perennial herb forming mats"
"These 'apples' are peeled and eaten when they are soft, and are described as being fragrant, juicy, and tasty. The formation of galls was originally thought to be limited to ""Salvia pomifera"", which led to the misidentification of many gall-bearing ""Salvia fruticosa"" plants. In 2001 it was discovered that the galls on ""Salvia fruticosa"" were caused by a previously undiscovered genus of Cynipid gall wasp. Salvia fruticosa Salvia fruticosa, Greek oregano or Greek sage, is a perennial herb or sub-shrub native to the eastern Mediterranean, including southern Italy, the Canary Islands and North Africa. It is especially abundant in Israel."