Almonds bitter one of 40 types of almonds

Almonds bitter one of 40 types of almonds. A very beautiful plant, which is used as an ornamental and as a healing agent. Cooks also use the fact that there is a bitter almonds, for the manufacture of various spices. As a means of healing used in folk medicine for asthma and diphtheria.

The disadvantage of bitter almonds can be considered as its toxicity, which can pose a health hazard. As sweet almond belongs to the family Rosaceae. They are generally very similar to each other and not knowing the characteristics of one or the other easily confused with each other.

Bitter almond tree's natural form, covered with spines, reaching a height of eight-times, although on average the height of 3-5 meters. Spines become erect shoots up, covered with shorter branches, but at the time of flowering in the spring they are very beautiful. Flowering continues until the crescent.

The southern European part, West Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. North America and Eurasia, too bitter almonds know in the wild. The flowers are white and the plant rozovokrasnye. Cultural forms of plant thorns, as a rule, and denied them a lot.

As is the case with almond sweet, sometimes it is referred to the nuts, with whom he has nothing to do, because is a stone fruit. The shape of the fruit like almond apricot pit. Motherland bitter almonds - Near East and surrounding areas.

Mediterranean and Central Asia also seems to have become home to some forms of almond bitter. Now the cultural forms of almonds are bred in many countries. T

Plucking up Mangoes

Mangoes are plucked when they are yet hard and green. Generally when a few semi-ripe fruits begin to fall naturally from the tree, others are plucked with a bamboo harvester without bruising their skin. After keeping them in the open for a day, mangoes are placed in single layers of straw or grass. Within a week, they are ready to be eaten. It is believed; artificially ripened mangoes taste better and have a better flavor than those ripened on trees.

Which is the most ancient fruit of India?

The mango which has been under cultivation for over 4,000 years is the most ancient fruit of India. In the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, forests and gardens of mangoes have been mentioned. It is said that a mango grove was presented to the Buddha so that he could use it as a place of repose. Alexander the great is reported to have spotted a pleasant mango garden in the Indus Valley in 327 B.C. Besides being referred to in Sanskrit texts, the mango tree is prominently carved on stupas. And the fruit was a popular motif on the textiles of ancient India.
The mango probably originated in the Assam – Burma – Thailand region. Nature propagated it further in the tropical and sub-tropical forests of India. Today it is found throughout the country in wild and cultivated form.
Hailed as the “Golden Fruit” and ‘the choicest fruit of India’, the mango today is the most favorite fruit of every Indian, and has earned for itself the title ‘the King of Fruits’.