By Asst Editor Jason D, on January 10th, 2011
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
By Asst Editor Jason D, on January 3rd, 2011
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
By Asst Editor Jason D, on November 29th, 2010
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
By Asst Editor Jason D, on November 26th, 2010
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