About Beets
1. Blood turnip. Beets or beetroots, as they are known in the United Kingdom, evolved from the sea beet, a
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Chokecherries and Chokeberries
Chokecherry fruit 1. Not the same. Chokecherries and chokeberries look quite similar to the untrained eye and they both taste
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10 Neat Things about Pigs
Little landrace shoat 1. What to call it (1). There are more words for the animal that gives you pork
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The Colour Blue
1. Blue impatiens. Impatiens namchabarwensis is a semi-woody, branching, one-foot tall plant with delicate true-blue blooms that was discovered in
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Alstroemeria
1. Lily of the Incas. Deep in South America, in the southern Andes, clumps of richly coloured flowers grew from
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Earthworms
1. Names. Earthworms are of many different species. The common one we tend to recognize as an earthworm is Lumbricus
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Dandelions
1. Tooth of the lion. The English common name “dandelion” comes from the French dent de lion, meaning tooth of
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About Scent
1. Do bees have noses? Not exactly, but they do detect odour through receptors in their antennae. Various insects
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About Precipitation
1. Snow is not so dense as it looks. A cubic yard of snow will not yield a cubic yard
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