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Earthnut (other)
Earthnut is a common name for several unrelated plants which produce a subterranean edible seed, fruit or root Earthnut may refer to: * Truffle * Peanut * Roots and tubers: ** ''Lathyrus tuberosus'' ** ''Conopodium majus'' ** ''Bunium persicum ''Elwendia persica'' is a plant species in the family Apiaceae. It is related to cumin (''Cuminum cyminum'') and sometimes called black cumin, blackseed,, black caraway, and has a smoky, earthy taste. It is often confused with ''Nigella sativa' ...'' See also * Groundnut (other) {{disambiguation, plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truffle
A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus ''Tuber''. In addition to ''Tuber'', many other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including ''Geopora'', ''Peziza'', ''Choiromyces'', ''Leucangium'', and over a hundred others. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded from Pezizales, including ''Rhizopogon'' and ''Glomus''. Truffles are ectomycorrhizal fungi, so they are usually found in close association with tree roots. Spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi. These fungi have significant ecological roles in nutrient cycling and drought tolerance. Some truffle species are highly prized as food. French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin called truffles "the diamond of the kitchen". Edible truffles are used in Italian, French and numerous other national . Truffles are cultivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peanut
The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible Seed, seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume and, due to its high oil content, an oil crop. World annual production of shelled peanuts was 44 million tonnes in 2016, led by China with 38% of the world total. Atypically among legume crop plants, peanut pods develop underground (geocarpy) rather than above ground. With this characteristic in mind, the botanist Carl Linnaeus gave peanuts the specific epithet ''hypogaea'', which means "under the earth." The peanut belongs to the botanical Family (biology), family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), commonly known as the legume, bean, or pea family. Like most other legumes, peanuts harbor symbiotic Nitrogen fixation, nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules. The capacity to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lathyrus Tuberosus
''Lathyrus tuberosus'' (also known as the tuberous pea, tuberous vetchling, earthnut pea, aardaker, or tine-tare) is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist temperate parts of Europe and Western Asia. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall. The leaves are pinnate, with two leaflets and a branched twining tendril at the apex of the petiole. Its flowers are hermaphroditic, pollinated by bees. The plants can also spread vegetatively from the root system. Description ''Lathyrus tuberosus'' is a perennial plant with edible tubers long attached to its roots. The stem grows to and is sprawling, wingless and nearly hairless. The leaves are alternate with short stalks and narrow stipule In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole). Stipules are considered part of the anatomy of the leaf of a typical flowering plant, although in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conopodium Majus
''Conopodium majus'' is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the celery family Apiaceae. Its underground part resembles a chestnut and is sometimes eaten as a wild or cultivated root vegetable. The plant has many English names (many of them shared with ''Bunium bulbocastanum'', a related plant with similar appearance and uses) variously including kippernut, cipernut, arnut, jarnut, hawknut, earth chestnut, groundnut, and earthnut. From its popularity with pigs come the names pignut, hognut, and more indirectly Saint Anthony's nut, for Anthony the Great or Anthony of Padua, both patron saints of swineherds. (See groundnut, earthnut, and hognut for other plants which share these names.) Description It has a smooth, slender, stem, up to high, much-divided leaves, and small, white flowers in many-rayed terminal compound umbels. The rounded "nut" (inconsistently described by authorities as a tuber, corm, or root) is similar to a chestnut in its brown colour and its size (up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunium Persicum
''Elwendia persica'' is a plant species in the family Apiaceae. It is related to cumin (''Cuminum cyminum'') and sometimes called black cumin, blackseed,, black caraway, and has a smoky, earthy taste. It is often confused with ''Nigella sativa'' (which is also called black cumin, black caraway, or black seed), by which it is often substituted in cooking. Dried ''E. persica'' fruits are used as a culinary spice in northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. It is practically unknown outside these areas. Etymology Local names for that spice are ''kala zeera'' ( ''black cumin'') or ''shahi zeera'' (; ''imperial cumin'') in Hindi, as ''syah zirah'' (; ''black cumin''), ''kaala zirah'' (; ''black cumin''), and ''zirah kuhi'' (; ''mountain/wild cumin'') in Urdu, ''zireh kuhi'' (; ''wild cumin'') in Persian, and ''siyoh dona'' (; ''black seed'') in Tajiki, and in Malayalam ''sahajīrakaṁ'' (). The commonly used Hindi term ''shahi zeera'' may be a di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
