Handbook of Nuts: Herbal Reference LibraryCRC Press, 10.11.2000 - 368 Seiten Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted for in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value. For easy reference, there is an illustrated account of each nut by species, arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Each account includes the family name, several colloquial names, and paragraphs on uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors. Chapters Describe: |
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Coula edulis | 131 |
Sapium sebiferum | 262 |
Treculia africana | 287 |
Telfairia occidentalis | 299 |
Figure Credits | 307 |
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Africa almond annual temperature ascorbic acid bark beta-carotene Biotic factors Brazil buds calories carbohydrate Center of Diversity Chemistry chestnut cm broad cm in diameter cm long coconut crop cultivated cvs thereof dm mean dried Dry to Moist eaten edible Energy extracted filbert flowers Folk medicine folk remedy Forest Life Zones fruit g ash g fat g fiber g protein g total germinate Germplasm glabrous grow guarana hectare husk India inflorescence jojoba kernels kg/ha leaf leaves linoleic mature medicine mesocarp mg ascorbic mg Fe mg niacin mg riboflavin mg thiamine MT/ha native niacin nuts oil palm oleic palmitic pecan Peggy Duke pericarp petioles planted production propagated pubescent pulp Ranging from Subtropical reported to contain reported to tolerate riboflavin roasted root seedlings seeds shell soil species stamens stearic sugar tall tannin thiamine tolerate annual precipitation total carbohydrate trees trunk tubers usually walnut wood Yields and economics
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Seite 297 - National Academy of Sciences, Firewood Crops, Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production, Vol.
Seite 83 - PLANTING. When planting on permanent sites the trees should be set 5 or 6 feet apart, each way, the width depending upon the quality of the site and the possible market for the product of thinnings. In good situations the wider spacing is advised. If the trees are to be grown directly from seed without transplanting, seed spots should be prepared, spaced as above. Two or three seeds should be planted in each and covered about 1 inch deep with fine earth. Only one tree should be allowed to remain...
Seite 83 - ... HABITS AND GROWTH. Chestnut will thrive on a variety of soils, from almost pure sand to coarse gravels and shales. On limestone soils, however, it nowhere makes good growth. In general it prefers the dry, well-drained, rocky land of the glacial drift to the richer, more compact alluvial soil of the lowlands. Chestnut does not need a rich soil so much as one whose physical structure insures good drainage. Light is essential to the tree, since it is somewhat intolerant of shade. Few of our valuable...
Seite 292 - Nutrition Reviews' Present Knowledge in Nutrition. 5th ed. The Nutrition Foundation. Washington. DC Herbert.
Seite 27 - Fruit orange-red; globose-ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, not more than one-third or one-fourth longer than broad (4 to 5 cm long, 3 to 4 cm broad). Seed subglobose with a more or less flattish base A. Catechu (forma communis.) f. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, rather ventricose, smaller than usual (4 cm long and 3 cm or a little less broad); seed globosedepressed or broader than high, the base flat. A. Catechu var. silvatica. f. Stems thicker and shorter than in forma communis; spadix denser and with...
Seite 53 - ... that the slaves become visibly fatter during the season when the Palo de Vaca yields most milk. When exposed to the air, this fluid displays on its surface, probably by the absorption of the atmospheric oxygen, membranes of a highly animal nature, yellowish and thready, like those of cheese ; which, when separated from the more watery liquid, are nearly as elastic as those of caoutchouc, but in process of time exhibit the same tendency to putrefaction as gelatine. The people give the name of...
Seite 76 - Similar examination of the palmitodistearins obtained by hydrogénation of the palmitodioleins in the three more soluble fractions showed, in contrast, that the latter were present in both the symmetrical and the unsymmetrical configuration, the amounts of each positional isomeride being probably of the same order. Fruit-coat fat of Java almond (Dacryodes...
Seite 265 - The oil of the seeds is very efficient and stimulating agent for the scalp, both cleansing it and promoting the growth of hair.
Seite 53 - It bread made from Maize, Manioc, Aropa, and Cassava; and the superintendent of the farm assured us that the slaves become visibly fatter during the season when the Palo de Vaca, yields most milk. When exposed to the air, this fluid displays on Its surface, probably by the absorption of the atmospheric oxygen, membranes of a highly animal nature, yellowish and thready, like those of cheese; which, when separated from the more watery liquid, are nearly as elastic as those of caoutchouc, but in process...