Sometimes you learn about a tree with flavorful fruit that you had never heard of before and wonder what took you so long. Or maybe you heard of the tree, but had put it out of your mind due to its ...

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1) The “King of Fruits” makes its mark: Durian seedlings were germinated at the NMC-CREES Agriculture Research Station in As Perdido in August 2025. The photo, taken on Oct. 30, 2025, shows the ...

Sedatives encompass a wide variety of drugs with different mechanisms of action that can induce depression of the central nervous system (CNS). In the first part of the 20th century, the ...

Whether you're grabbing a bunch of longans from that mak cik's roadside truck or enjoying a cup of air mata kucing from the night market, it's easy to assume they're just different names for the same ...

Five things to do in the garden: Fruit. Longan (Dimocarpus longan) is related to lychee. While the peel of lychee is pinkish-red and bumpy, that of the longan is brown and smooth. In both cases, ...

Longan (Dimocarpus longan), often referred to as the "dragon's eye" due to its translucent flesh and central dark seed resembling an eyeball, is a tropical tree species renowned for its sweet and ...