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Charlotte Scott Picture: Dungeness Crab At California State Capitol Museum Crabs are one of the most diverse, most ecologically significant, and most commercially important groups of crustaceans on earth, encompassing over 7,000 recognized species distributed across every ocean, from the shallowest tropical coral reefs to the deepest abyssal trenches, as well as in freshwater rivers, lakes, and … Read more
Petunias are one of the most versatile, most colorful, and most widely used annual flowering plants in landscape design, offering an extraordinary range of flower colors, plant habits, and design applications that make them indispensable in gardens of virtually every style and scale. From cascading hanging baskets to formal bedding schemes, from window boxes to … Read more
Introduction Amaryllis is a great flower for beginners and anyone who wants to add some cheer indoors. It’s also known as the naked lady, because of its long blooming time (about three months), and the way it drops its leaves around that time too. There is nothing quite like the brilliant red blooms of amaryllis … Read more
Fenugreek is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history, a remarkable dual-purpose herb and spice plant that simultaneously provides fresh leaves used as a vegetable herb in cooking, dried leaves used as a flavoring spice, and seeds used as one of the most important and widely traded spice seeds in South Asian, Middle … Read more
Turmeric is one of the most important, most widely cultivated, and most commercially significant spice and medicinal plants in the world, a tropical rhizome plant native to South and Southeast Asia that has been used in Indian cooking, Ayurvedic medicine, and Hindu religious ceremonies for over 4,000 years. Known as the golden spice for the … Read more
Leopard geckos are one of the most popular and widely kept reptile pets in the world, small to medium-sized ground-dwelling lizards native to the arid and semi-arid regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northwestern India, and parts of Iran where they inhabit rocky desert grasslands and dry scrubland environments. They were among the first lizard species to … Read more
Parsley is one of the most widely grown and most universally consumed fresh herbs in the world, a bright, clean, versatile Mediterranean herb that has been cultivated for over 2,000 years across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. Native to the central Mediterranean region — particularly Sardinia, Algeria, and Tunisia — it spread through Roman … Read more
Coriander is one of the most ancient, most widely cultivated, and most culturally significant herb and spice plants in the world, remarkable for being the only commonly used culinary plant where both the fresh leaves and the dried seeds are harvested as entirely distinct and commercially separate ingredients with fundamentally different flavors, aromas, and culinary … Read more
Sea moss is a type of red algae or seaweed that grows along the rocky Atlantic coastlines of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean, harvested for centuries as a food, medicine, and industrial ingredient and experiencing an extraordinary surge in global popularity over the past decade as one of the most celebrated superfoods in the … Read more
Black pepper is the most widely traded and most universally used spice in the world, accounting for approximately 20 percent of the entire global spice trade by value and present as a table condiment and cooking ingredient in virtually every cuisine on earth. Native to the Malabar Coast of Kerala in southwestern India, where it … Read more