Paradise Nut Dispersal

Opened Shell Showing The Paradise Nuts

The bats is natured dispersal of trees and plants by known as chiropterochory, and the bats of the family Phyllostomidae are the principle agents in the American tropics. This paper report the food preference of the greater spearnosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus hastatus (Pallas), for . . . → Read More: Paradise Nut Dispersal

Mongongo - a tough nut worth cracking

Mongongo Nuts

Mongongo trees are found in several belts that stretch across much of southern Africa, In a good year, fallen mongongo fruit can cover the ground ankle-deep beneath trees that stretch over wide areas. Favouring sandy soil types, and found in much of southern Africa, from Namibia and Botswana across . . . → Read More: Mongongo - a tough nut worth cracking

Chestnut Culture in California

Chestnuts

The chestnut is a delicious nut produced on large magnificent trees on millions of acres of native habitat in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly China, Korea, Japan, and Southern Europe. The entire Eastern half of the USA was once covered with native chestnut trees until a blight fungus introduced from Asia . . . → Read More: Chestnut Culture in California

The Brazil Nut

Brazil nuts

The Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is the fruit of a tree that grows mostly wild in rainforests. Castanheiro do Para, which is the Brazilian name given to this tree, is found in many Amazonian states of Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela and Ecudor. It is most pervalent in the Brazilian states . . . → Read More: The Brazil Nut