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As its name implies, birch sap is the sap extracted from birch trees such as the North American Sweet Birch and the Silver Birch.
It is a slightly sweet, thin and watery syrup made up of sugars, proteins, amino acids, and enzymes. The refreshing liquid is consumed as a tonic and traditional beverage in many northern [...]

Tindora, or coccinia grandis, is a tropical vine grown for its small edible cucumber-like gourds, each about the size of a little finger, which are eaten immature and green, or mature and deep red. The plant’s young shoots and leaves are also eaten as greens.
Tindora is also known variously as tondli or kundsru or dondakaya [...]

Scapes are the flower stalks found on members of the Allium family (onions, leeks, chives, and garlic).
Garlic scapes, which only appear on hardneck varieties, are bright green and curl upward as they grow. They look a lot like a stiff curling green onion. Atop their  wild, snaking length there sits a small, closed little seed-like [...]

Can you eat your peppers and enjoy looking at them too?
Yes, you can.
Peppers don’t have to be just green and bell shaped and relegated to the supermarket shelf or home garden plot. This genus of plants has the genetic potential to provide a wide array of possibilities for the kitchen and the ornamental garden and [...]

Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, is a deciduous tree that can be found growing in dry woodlands, limestone glades, prairies, thickets, abandoned fields and along roadsides.
In spring, tiny yellow bell-shaped flowers adorn newly leafed-out branches. The foliage is dark green and glossy above, paler below. It turns buttery-yellow in autumn, infrequently reddish-purple. One to two-inch berries change [...]