10 unusual facts about plants (10 Photos)

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1. In the Pacific, along with coconut palms, which give the milk and oil, growing breadfruit. Bread called all kinds of trees the genus Artocarpus mulberry family. They bear fruit "loaf" up to 12 kg! In the pulp oval fruit accumulates starch, evolving as the maturation of the ... dough. "If a man plant a breadfruit, it will do more to feed their offspring, than a farmer. life in your own sweat handles his field .. "- written by James Cook. Typically, grain fruit trees within 70-75 years. On the same tree every year matures 700-800 "bread".

Fruits are filled with sweetish pulp. From the unripe fruits make drinks, and of ripe - bake something FSUs ozhee bread. Impressive fruits of Indian breadfruit - up to a meter in diameter! The branches would not survive such a load, so the "Caravan" grow directly on the trunk. In the African breadfruit trakulii fruit smaller - up to half a meter in diameter and weighing up to 14 kg. In Madagascar, the patriarch remained breadfruit trees - a height of 20 m, girth 50 m (!).

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