Fruits Info

The sweet potato (kumara in NZ) is tuber-producing plant related to the morning glory. The flesh of the tuber can be white, yellow, orange, or purple. Sweet potatoes are often confused with potatoes and yams, which are not the same at all.

Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C and vitamin B6. The orange ones are also rich in beta-carotine. In tropica areas they are a staple food crop. The tubers are most frequently boiled, fried or baked. Tubers can also be processed to make starch and a partial flour substitute.The tubers, leaves and shootsre all edib Some variants are sold as house plants for their beautiful flower plants will produc sweet potatoes. The plants tend to be large vines.Farmers in the Southern United States started using the term "yam" to distinguish between the softer orange variety and the drier white variety. Theam is rarely found in the United States except as an import. Sweet potatos sbe incorrectly labeled in stores though.

A plum is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitar(Old World plumsLeavp inwrapped in the seed coa or testa. The stored food begins as a tise called endosperm derived from the parent plant. Endosperm becomes rich in oil or starch, and protein. In soe species, the embryo is imbedded in the endosperm, which the seedling will use upon germination. In others, the endosperm is absorbed by the embryo as the latter grows within the developing seed, and t Willow (Salix scouleriana)See ahe embryo must imbibe (soak up on rocks in a stream bed, or passing through an animal's digestive tract. In the latter case, the seed coat protects the seed from digestin, while perhaps weakening the seed coat such that the ebryo is ready to sprout when it gets deposited (along with a bit of fertili) farrom the parent plant. In species with thin seed coats, light may be able to penetrate into the dormant embryoing germination in some seeds buried too deeply or n others not buried in the soil. Abscisic acidis usually the growth inhibitr in seeds.The fruit of the Date Palm is knwn as a date. They are oval-cylindrical, 3-7 cm long, and 2-3 c diameter, and when unripe, range from bright red to bright yellow in colour, depending on variety. Dates contain a single seed about 2-2.5 cm long and 6-8 mm thick. Three main types of date exist; soft (Barhee, Halawy, Khadrawy, Medjool), semi-dry (Dayri, Deglet Noor, Zahidi), and dry (Thoory). The type of fruit depends on the glucose, fructose and sucrose content.

Dates are naturally wind pollinated, but in modern commercial horticulture are entirely pollinated manually. Natural pollination requires about an eqources for many more fruit producing female plants. Some growers do not even maintain any male plants as male flowers become available at local markes at pollintion time.Pollination is done by skilled laborers on ladders, or less ofthe pollen may beblown nto the female flowers by wind machine. Date farmers in Iraq lost their 2003 crop, because the nation was at war during pollination time.Parthenocarpic cultivars are available but the seedless fruit is smaller and of lower quality.Dates ripen in four staates rovides 3 grams of dietary fibre and supplies 270 kcal (1130 kJ) of energy.Dates are an important traditional crop in Iraq, Arabia, and north Africa west to Morocco. In Islamic countries, dates and milk are a traditional first meal when the sun sets during Ramadan. Dates (especially Medjool) are also cultivated in southern California in the United States.

Plum fruit is sweet, juicy and edible, and it can be eaten fresh or used in jam-making or other recipes. Plum juice can be fermented into plum wine; when distilled, this produces a brandy known in Eastern Europe as Slivovitz. Dried plums are known as prunes. Prunes are sweet and juicy, and they have a very high dietary fiber content, so prune juice is often used to help regulate the functioning of the digestive system. It also contains several antioxidants that may slow aging. Prune marketers in the United States have, in recent years, begun marketing their product as "dried plums", because "prunes" has negative connotations of being unappetizing, and suitable only for the elderly.