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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetation

Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants, and is, by far, the most abundant biotic element of the biosphere. The term vegetation does not, by itself, imply anything regarding species composition, life forms, structure, spatial extent, "naturalness", or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers exclusively to species composition. Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but vegeta ...

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Vegetation - References and Further Reading

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetable Vegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice. These include leaf vegetables (e.g. lettuce), stem vegetables (asparagus), root vegetables (carrot) and flower vegetables (broccoli), and botanical fruits such as cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocados, capsicums, et cetera, as well as botanical pulses like green beans, and fleshy ...

Vegetables: Encyclopedia II - Vegetation - Vegetation Processes

Like all biological systems, plant communities are temporally and spatially dynamic; they change at all possible scales. Dynamism in vegetation is defined primarily as changes in either or both of species composition and vegetation structure. Vegetation - Temporal Dynamics. Temporally, a large number of processes or events can cause change, but for sake of simplicity they can be categorized roughly as either abrupt or gradual. Abrupt changes are generally referred to as disturbances; these include things l ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetable juice

Vegetable juice is a popular drink the world over. Vegetable juice is an alternative to fruit juice and is usually healthier, given that it contains less sugar. Recently there has been controversy regarding vegetable juices due to an urban myth that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has regulations allowing insects to be put into commercial vegetable juices, such as the ones sold by V8 and Motts. But vegetable juice cannot be made from every vegetable like fruit juices. Vegetable juices usually consist from the following ve

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Climax vegetation

Climax vegetation is the vegetation which establishes itself on a given site for given climatic conditions in the absence of anthropic action after a long time (it is the asymptotic or quasi equilibrium state of the local ecosystem). Tropical evergreen forest is an example of climax vegetation, as are temperate forests, tundras, savannas, grassland etc. An ecosystem which has reached its climax is more resilient to perturbations (climatic or anthropic) than an artific ...

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetable ivory

Vegetable Ivory is a name used for the Tagua nut in the South American rain forest. When dried out, it can be carved as an ivory replica. Humanitarians and environmentalists can both appreciate it because its use stimulates the economies in South America, provides an alternative to cutting down rain forest for farming, and prevents elephants from being killed for their tusks. The Ivory-nut palm, Phytelephas aequatorialis, is one plant that can be harvested for vegetable ivory. I ...

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetative reproduction

Vegetative reproduction is asexual reproduction, but other terms that apply are vegetative propagation and vegetative multiplication. In essence it is any process by which new plant "individuals" arise or are obtained without production of seeds or spores. It is both a natural process in many plant species (including organisms that may or may not be considered "plants", such as bacteria and fungi) and one utilized or encouraged by horticu ...

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Vegetative reproduction - Cultivated plants propagated by vegetative methods

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetable farming

Vegetable farming has traditionally been done in long rows. This allows machinery to cultivate the fields, increasing efficiency and output. Over the past 100 years a new technique has emerged--raised bed gardening, which has increased yields from small plots of soil without the need for commercial, energy intensive fertilizers. Modern hydroponic farming yields very high yields in greenhous ...

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Vegetable farming - Common vegetable crops

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Yam vegetable

Yam is the common name for members of the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae). There are more than 150 different varieties of yam. Some species are cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The word yam comes from Portuguese inhame or Spanish ñame, which both ultimately derive from the Wolof word nyami, meaning ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vegetable oil

Vegetable oil or vegoil is fat extracted from plant sources, known as oil plants. Although in principle other parts of plants may yield oil, in practice seeds form the almost exclusive source. Vegetable oils are used as cooking oils and for industrial uses. Some types, such as rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, or castor oil, are not fit for human consumption without further processing. Like all fats, vegetable oils are esters of glycerin and a varying blend of fatty acids, and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic so ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Waste vegetable oil

Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is vegetable oil that has become unfit for food preparation. The common causes of this degradation are: Chemical degradation, including oxidation. hydrogenation. Accumulation of contaminants. Its uses include: Animal feed additive. Fuel for waste-to-energy plants. Use as a biofuel, especially: As feedstock for the production of biodiesel by transesterification. As fuel for diesel engines m ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Fruit and vegetable beer

Fruit and vegetable beers are a variety of mixed beer blended with a fermentable fruit or vegetable adjunct during the fermentation process, providing new qualities. Fruits have been a popular adjunct for centuries, especially with Belgian lambic styles. Cherry, raspberry, and peach are a common addition to this style of beer. Modern breweries may add only flavored extracts to the finished product, rather than actually fermenting the fruit. New Glarus Brewing Company of Wisconsin produces Raspberry Tart, a framboise made with r ...

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - União do Vegetal

União do Vegetal (O Centro Espírita Beneficiente União do Vegetal church or UDV) is a church which is known fundamentally for its usage of Hoasca (or Ayahuasca) as a sacramental entheogenic herbal tea. União do Vegetal - Origins. Claiming roots as far back as the 10th century BC, members feel the movement then lay dormant before reappearing in Incan Peru in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. UDV as it is known today however was "re-created" on July 22, 1961 in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil by ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Vallès Oriental

Vallès Oriental is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain, European Union. Its capital is Granollers. Along with Vallès Occidental it forms the grand comarca of Vallès. Vallès Oriental - Municipalities. Aiguafreda - pop. 2,308 Ametlla del Vallès, L' - pop. 7,319 Bigues i Riells - pop. 7,155 Caldes de Montbui - pop. 15,536 Campins - pop. 354 Canovelles - pop. 14,668 Cànoves i Samalús - pop. 2,375 Cardedeu - pop. 15,018 Caste ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Sadhya

Sadya means big feast in Malayalam. A sadya is a big feast associated with an occasion like marriage, birthday, childbirth or death ceremony. A sadya is traditionally a vegetarian meal served on a plantain leaf, with people eating it sitting cross legged on the floor. The dishes are mainly cooked rice, many curries, papad, curd or butter milk, banana, banana chips and two or more sweet dishes. The curries are made of different vegetables and are of different tastes. For example, they are made of curd (yoghurt), bitter gourd, mango, jaggery etc. The idea of making many dishes in the sadya is that there will be at ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Burek

Burek or Börek is a dish originating in Turkish Cuisine, but very popular in many countries in the Balkan region (especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina), probably spread during the Ottoman Empire. It is made of phyllo pastry, generally filled with cheese (most commonly feta cheese), meat (most commonly ground beef), or vegetables (most commonly spinach). Börek is the Turkish word for this food. In Albania it is called byrek. In other Balkan countries (most notably countries of former Yugoslavia) ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Horseradish

Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. Cochlearia armoracia) is a perennial plant of the Brassicaceae family, which includes mustard and cabbages. The plant is probably native to southeastern Europe and western Asia, but is popular around the world today. It grows up to 1.5 metres (five feet) tall and is mainly cultivated for its large white, tapering root, although the leaves are also edible. Its root is used as a vegetable or ground in a condiment called prepared horseradish, and has at times been used as ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Cauliflower

Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group Cauliflower is a variety (Botrytis Group) of Brassica oleracea in the family Brassicaceae. Cauliflower resembles broccoli, to which it is closely related, except with very densely packed white flower buds. Only the head of the cauliflower is eaten, a part known as the white curd. This stalk is surrounded at the base by thick, green leaves. Cauliflower is a source of nutritional vitamins and minerals. Cauliflower is most commonly eaten cooked, but it may also be eaten raw or pickled, and is often sold in that form commercially wi ...

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Cauliflower - Harvesting the vegetable

Cauliflower - Variants

Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Chard

Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla), also known as Swiss Chard, Silverbeet, Perpetual Spinach or Mangold, is a leaf vegetable, and is one of the cultivated descendents of the Sea Beet, Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima. It is in the plant family Amaranthaceae along with Spinach. While used for its leaves, it is in the same species as the garden beets, which are used for their roots, including Mangelwurzel which is used for animal feed and ...

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Vegetables: Encyclopedia - Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a vegetable, most commonly orange in colour when ripe, that grows as a fruit (gourd) from a trailing vine of the genus Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Cultivated in North America, continental Europe, as well as in English cottage gardens, Cucurbita varieties include Curcurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita mixta, or Cucurbita moschata — all plants native to the Western hemisphere. The pumpkin varies greatly in form, being sometimes nearly globular, but more generally oblong or ov ...