Whales Hervery Bay _0492

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Whales Hervery Bay _0492

Image by Michael Dawes
* Average Length: (Adult) 35-50 ft (Newborn) 13-16 ft
* Average Weight: (Adult) 23-30 tons (Birth) 1-2 tons
* Population: 18,000-20,000 (2002 figure)
* Lifespan: estimated to be around 40 years (1998 figure)
* Threats: Caught in fishing nets, human disturbance, and being tangled in marine pollution
* The flukes (tails) have a distinct pattern on the underside, much like our fingerprints
* The humpback whale breaches more frequently than other baleen whales
* The Pacific humpback's pectoral fins are white underneath & black on top..
* The Atlantic humpback's pectoral fins are white on both sides- which makes it easier for us to see them
* While in their breeding grounds- the whales do NOT eat!
* Some humpbacks feed in the Southern Ocean and go north to their reproductive areas!
* Can stay underwater for 30 minutes but often dives for much shorter periods of time, usually 5 to 10 minutes
* Humpbacks emit high frequency "clicks" reaching 30,000 Hz
* The males produce, in frequencies between 20 and 9,000 Hz, songs that are the longest and the most varied in all the animal kingdom, with repeated sequences about 15 minutes long
* When they are in cold waters, the humpback whale eats 2 tons of fish and planktonic crustaceans a day, in 2 to 4 meals


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Whales Hervery Bay _0480

Image by Michael Dawes
* Average Length: (Adult) 35-50 ft (Newborn) 13-16 ft
* Average Weight: (Adult) 23-30 tons (Birth) 1-2 tons
* Population: 18,000-20,000 (2002 figure)
* Lifespan: estimated to be around 40 years (1998 figure)
* Threats: Caught in fishing nets, human disturbance, and being tangled in marine pollution
* The flukes (tails) have a distinct pattern on the underside, much like our fingerprints
* The humpback whale breaches more frequently than other baleen whales
* The Pacific humpback's pectoral fins are white underneath & black on top..
* The Atlantic humpback's pectoral fins are white on both sides- which makes it easier for us to see them
* While in their breeding grounds- the whales do NOT eat!
* Some humpbacks feed in the Southern Ocean and go north to their reproductive areas!
* Can stay underwater for 30 minutes but often dives for much shorter periods of time, usually 5 to 10 minutes
* Humpbacks emit high frequency "clicks" reaching 30,000 Hz
* The males produce, in frequencies between 20 and 9,000 Hz, songs that are the longest and the most varied in all the animal kingdom, with repeated sequences about 15 minutes long
* When they are in cold waters, the humpback whale eats 2 tons of fish and planktonic crustaceans a day, in 2 to 4 meals


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Whales Hervery Bay _0425

Image by Michael Dawes
* Average Length: (Adult) 35-50 ft (Newborn) 13-16 ft
* Average Weight: (Adult) 23-30 tons (Birth) 1-2 tons
* Population: 18,000-20,000 (2002 figure)
* Lifespan: estimated to be around 40 years (1998 figure)
* Threats: Caught in fishing nets, human disturbance, and being tangled in marine pollution
* The flukes (tails) have a distinct pattern on the underside, much like our fingerprints
* The humpback whale breaches more frequently than other baleen whales
* The Pacific humpback's pectoral fins are white underneath & black on top..
* The Atlantic humpback's pectoral fins are white on both sides- which makes it easier for us to see them
* While in their breeding grounds- the whales do NOT eat!
* Some humpbacks feed in the Southern Ocean and go north to their reproductive areas!
* Can stay underwater for 30 minutes but often dives for much shorter periods of time, usually 5 to 10 minutes
* Humpbacks emit high frequency "clicks" reaching 30,000 Hz
* The males produce, in frequencies between 20 and 9,000 Hz, songs that are the longest and the most varied in all the animal kingdom, with repeated sequences about 15 minutes long
* When they are in cold waters, the humpback whale eats 2 tons of fish and planktonic crustaceans a day, in 2 to 4 meals


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Osage Orange, Bois D'Arc, Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera...#7

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Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Taken on June 11, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named :
Common names : Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Horse-apple, Bois D'Arc, Bodark, Bodock.
Scientist name : Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid.
Synonyms :
Family : Moraceae / Mulberry family . Họ Dâu Tằm .
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Genus: Maclura Nutt. – maclura
Species: Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid. – osage orange

**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAPO

**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Maclura+pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.
SynonymsM. aurantiaca. Toxylon pommifera.
Known Hazards The milky sap can cause dermatitis in some people[200]. An extract and the juice of the fruit is toxic, though a 10% aqueous infusion and extract diluted 1:1 are not toxic[240].
HabitatsWoods, fields and thickets in rich bottom lands[73, 83].
RangeSoutheastern N. America - Arkansas to Texas.

Edible Uses
One report suggests that the fruit is edible[74] but this is surely a mistake - although very large, the fruit is harsh, hard, dry and astringent. The fruit does, however, contain an anti-oxidant which can be used as a food preservative, especially for oils[61]. The heartwood and the root yield a non-toxic antibiotic that is useful as a food preservative[240].

Medicinal Uses


Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally.

Cardiac; Ophthalmic.

A tea made from the roots has been used as a wash for sore eyes[222, 257]. The inedible fruits contain antioxidant and fungicidal compounds[222]. A 10% aqueous infusion and an extract diluted 1:1 have cardiovascular potentialities[240].
Other Uses
Dye; Fuel; Hedge; Hedge; Preservative; Repellent; Shelterbelt; Tannin; Wood.

A yellow dye is obtained from the bark of the root and the wood[46, 57, 95, 149, 169, 257]. Green and orange can also be obtained from it[168]. The sap of the fruit is used as an insect repellent[95]. It is said to be effective against cockroaches[222]. The bark is a source of tannin[82, 149]. The plant is often grown as a hedge in N. America and Europe[1, 20, 50], it is very tolerant of severe pruning[200], makes an effective stock-proof barrier[200] and succeeds in maritime exposure[K]. A hedge in a very exposed position at Rosewarne in N. Cornwall has grown well (1989), though it is very bare in winter[K]. This species is also used in shelterbelt plantings[200]. Wood - coarse-grained, exceedingly hard, heavy, flexible, very strong, very durable, silky, lustrous. It weighs 48lb per cubic foot. One of the most durable woods in N. America, it is seldom used commercially, but is used locally for fence posts,piers, bows etc and makes an excellent fuel[46, 82, 95, 171, 200, 227, 229, 274].

**** www.gpnc.org/osage.htm : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE, please.

Are Osage Oranges edible?
Chop one in half and you will see a pithy core surrounded by up to 200 small seeds (smaller than sunflower seeds) that are much sought-after by squirrels. Try to harvest these seeds for yourself and you will get a clear understanding of how much the squirrels must like them! In addition to ripping apart the tough, stringy fruit, there is a slimy husk around each individual seed that must also be removed before the seed can be eaten. Nonetheless, Osage Orange trees are a magnet for every squirrel in the neighborhood. They typically sit on the ground at the base of the tree or on a wide branch up in the tree to disassemble their prize, making a big mess in the process. Piles of shredded hedge apple are a sure sign of squirrels in the area.
The seeds are edible by people, but one must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. This is the only part of the fruit that people can eat. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.

Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, many thousands of miles of hedge were constructed by planting young Osage Orange trees closely together in a line. The saplings were aggressively pruned to promote bushy growth. "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." Those were the criteria for a good hedge made with Osage Orange. Tall enough that a horse would not jump it, stout enough that a bull would not push through it and woven so tightly that even a hog could not find its way through! After barbed wire made hedge fences obsolete, the trees still found use as a source of unbeatable fence posts. The wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor succumb to the attacks of termites or other insects for decades. The trees also found use as an effective component of windbreaks and shelterbelts.

How do you grow Osage Oranges?

The tree is easily grown from the seeds, but it is a challenge to separate the seeds from the fruit. One technique for separating the seeds is to drop a fruit into a bucket of water and wait until it gets a little mushy, then do the separation. Late season freezes combined with damp conditions will accomplish the same task for ones left on the ground. Plant individual seeds taken from a fully mature fruit (wait until they start falling on the ground). You can start them in pots inside, but you can have good luck growing them outside in a planting bed too - its just more difficult to transplant them when they are started in the ground.

The trees will be either male or female, and only the females will produce hedge balls. The trees become sexually mature by age 10 and there is no easy way to determine the gender prior to then.

The trees can grow quickly in a good location with ideal growing conditions. They make a decent shade tree within ten years. If you are wanting to grow a hedgerow, plant them no more than five feet apart and plan to thin them as they get bigger.

If you are considering growing them, think twice and make sure you want to do this! The trees can spread and become a real problem in pastures. The thorny branches make pruning difficult, and the thorns can easily cause flat tires - even through the thick tread of a tractor tire. You certainly don't want to step on one barefoot!

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.

Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin.
It was once thought that placing an Osage orange under the bed would repel spiders and insects. This practice has declined with the rise of synthetic insecticides. However, scientific studies have found that extracts of Osage orange do repel several insect species, in some studies just as well as the widely-used synthetic insecticide DEET

...................................................................

Distribution
Osage-orange occurred historically in the Red River drainage of Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas and in the Blackland Prairies, Post Oak Savannas, and Chisos Mountains of Texas.[6] It has been widely naturalized in the United States and Ontario.

Ecological aspects
The fruit has a pleasant and mild odor, but is inedible for the most part. Although it is not strongly poisonous, eating it may cause vomiting. However, the seeds of the fruit are edible. The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruit serves the function of seed dispersal by means of its consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America. Other extinct Pleistocene megafauna, such as the mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere, may have fed on the fruit and aided in seed dispersal.[7] An equine species that went extinct at the same time also has been suggested as the plant's original dispersal agent because modern horses and other livestock will sometimes eat the fruit
...............................................................................
Uses

The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple". It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles (29,900 km).[9] The sharp-thorned trees were also planted as cattle-deterring hedges before the introduction of barbed wire and afterwards became an important source of fence posts.
The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, and other applications requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot. Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) makes very good bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.[5] Additionally, a yellow-orange dye can be extracted from the wood, which can be used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes. When dried, the wood has the highest BTU content of any commonly available North American wood, and burns long and hot.[10][11]
The fruit was once used to repel spiders by placing one under the bed. Various studies have found elemol, an extract of Osage orange, to repel several species of mosquitos, cockroaches, crickets, and ticks.[12] One study found elemol to be as effective a mosquito repellant as DEET.[13] A patent was awarded in 2012 for an insect repelling device using Osage orange

History

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.[5] It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804. The samples, donated by "Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation" according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U.S.[15] In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis (apparently "Peter Choteau").[5]
The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.[5] Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert the wood of the Osage-orange is superior even to English Yew for this purpose, though this opinion is by no means unanimous. The trees are also known as "bodark" or "bodarc" trees, most likely originating from a corruption of "bois d'arc." The Comanches also used this wood for their bows.[16] It was popular with them because it is strong, flexible and durable. This tree was common along river bottoms of the Comanchería.

Osage Orange, Bois D'Arc, Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera...#1

Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Taken on June 11, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named :
Common names : Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Horse-apple, Bois D'Arc, Bodark, Bodock.
Scientist name : Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid.
Synonyms :
Family : Moraceae / Mulberry family . Họ Dâu Tằm .
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Genus: Maclura Nutt. – maclura
Species: Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid. – osage orange

**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAPO

**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Maclura+pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.
SynonymsM. aurantiaca. Toxylon pommifera.
Known Hazards The milky sap can cause dermatitis in some people[200]. An extract and the juice of the fruit is toxic, though a 10% aqueous infusion and extract diluted 1:1 are not toxic[240].
HabitatsWoods, fields and thickets in rich bottom lands[73, 83].
RangeSoutheastern N. America - Arkansas to Texas.

Edible Uses
One report suggests that the fruit is edible[74] but this is surely a mistake - although very large, the fruit is harsh, hard, dry and astringent. The fruit does, however, contain an anti-oxidant which can be used as a food preservative, especially for oils[61]. The heartwood and the root yield a non-toxic antibiotic that is useful as a food preservative[240].

Medicinal Uses


Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally.

Cardiac; Ophthalmic.

A tea made from the roots has been used as a wash for sore eyes[222, 257]. The inedible fruits contain antioxidant and fungicidal compounds[222]. A 10% aqueous infusion and an extract diluted 1:1 have cardiovascular potentialities[240].
Other Uses
Dye; Fuel; Hedge; Hedge; Preservative; Repellent; Shelterbelt; Tannin; Wood.

A yellow dye is obtained from the bark of the root and the wood[46, 57, 95, 149, 169, 257]. Green and orange can also be obtained from it[168]. The sap of the fruit is used as an insect repellent[95]. It is said to be effective against cockroaches[222]. The bark is a source of tannin[82, 149]. The plant is often grown as a hedge in N. America and Europe[1, 20, 50], it is very tolerant of severe pruning[200], makes an effective stock-proof barrier[200] and succeeds in maritime exposure[K]. A hedge in a very exposed position at Rosewarne in N. Cornwall has grown well (1989), though it is very bare in winter[K]. This species is also used in shelterbelt plantings[200]. Wood - coarse-grained, exceedingly hard, heavy, flexible, very strong, very durable, silky, lustrous. It weighs 48lb per cubic foot. One of the most durable woods in N. America, it is seldom used commercially, but is used locally for fence posts,piers, bows etc and makes an excellent fuel[46, 82, 95, 171, 200, 227, 229, 274].

**** www.gpnc.org/osage.htm : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE, please.

Are Osage Oranges edible?
Chop one in half and you will see a pithy core surrounded by up to 200 small seeds (smaller than sunflower seeds) that are much sought-after by squirrels. Try to harvest these seeds for yourself and you will get a clear understanding of how much the squirrels must like them! In addition to ripping apart the tough, stringy fruit, there is a slimy husk around each individual seed that must also be removed before the seed can be eaten. Nonetheless, Osage Orange trees are a magnet for every squirrel in the neighborhood. They typically sit on the ground at the base of the tree or on a wide branch up in the tree to disassemble their prize, making a big mess in the process. Piles of shredded hedge apple are a sure sign of squirrels in the area.
The seeds are edible by people, but one must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. This is the only part of the fruit that people can eat. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.

Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, many thousands of miles of hedge were constructed by planting young Osage Orange trees closely together in a line. The saplings were aggressively pruned to promote bushy growth. "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." Those were the criteria for a good hedge made with Osage Orange. Tall enough that a horse would not jump it, stout enough that a bull would not push through it and woven so tightly that even a hog could not find its way through! After barbed wire made hedge fences obsolete, the trees still found use as a source of unbeatable fence posts. The wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor succumb to the attacks of termites or other insects for decades. The trees also found use as an effective component of windbreaks and shelterbelts.

How do you grow Osage Oranges?

The tree is easily grown from the seeds, but it is a challenge to separate the seeds from the fruit. One technique for separating the seeds is to drop a fruit into a bucket of water and wait until it gets a little mushy, then do the separation. Late season freezes combined with damp conditions will accomplish the same task for ones left on the ground. Plant individual seeds taken from a fully mature fruit (wait until they start falling on the ground). You can start them in pots inside, but you can have good luck growing them outside in a planting bed too - its just more difficult to transplant them when they are started in the ground.

The trees will be either male or female, and only the females will produce hedge balls. The trees become sexually mature by age 10 and there is no easy way to determine the gender prior to then.

The trees can grow quickly in a good location with ideal growing conditions. They make a decent shade tree within ten years. If you are wanting to grow a hedgerow, plant them no more than five feet apart and plan to thin them as they get bigger.

If you are considering growing them, think twice and make sure you want to do this! The trees can spread and become a real problem in pastures. The thorny branches make pruning difficult, and the thorns can easily cause flat tires - even through the thick tread of a tractor tire. You certainly don't want to step on one barefoot!

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.

Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin.
It was once thought that placing an Osage orange under the bed would repel spiders and insects. This practice has declined with the rise of synthetic insecticides. However, scientific studies have found that extracts of Osage orange do repel several insect species, in some studies just as well as the widely-used synthetic insecticide DEET

...................................................................

Distribution
Osage-orange occurred historically in the Red River drainage of Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas and in the Blackland Prairies, Post Oak Savannas, and Chisos Mountains of Texas.[6] It has been widely naturalized in the United States and Ontario.

Ecological aspects
The fruit has a pleasant and mild odor, but is inedible for the most part. Although it is not strongly poisonous, eating it may cause vomiting. However, the seeds of the fruit are edible. The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruit serves the function of seed dispersal by means of its consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America. Other extinct Pleistocene megafauna, such as the mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere, may have fed on the fruit and aided in seed dispersal.[7] An equine species that went extinct at the same time also has been suggested as the plant's original dispersal agent because modern horses and other livestock will sometimes eat the fruit
...............................................................................
Uses

The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple". It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles (29,900 km).[9] The sharp-thorned trees were also planted as cattle-deterring hedges before the introduction of barbed wire and afterwards became an important source of fence posts.
The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, and other applications requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot. Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) makes very good bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.[5] Additionally, a yellow-orange dye can be extracted from the wood, which can be used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes. When dried, the wood has the highest BTU content of any commonly available North American wood, and burns long and hot.[10][11]
The fruit was once used to repel spiders by placing one under the bed. Various studies have found elemol, an extract of Osage orange, to repel several species of mosquitos, cockroaches, crickets, and ticks.[12] One study found elemol to be as effective a mosquito repellant as DEET.[13] A patent was awarded in 2012 for an insect repelling device using Osage orange

History

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.[5] It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804. The samples, donated by "Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation" according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U.S.[15] In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis (apparently "Peter Choteau").[5]
The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.[5] Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert the wood of the Osage-orange is superior even to English Yew for this purpose, though this opinion is by no means unanimous. The trees are also known as "bodark" or "bodarc" trees, most likely originating from a corruption of "bois d'arc." The Comanches also used this wood for their bows.[16] It was popular with them because it is strong, flexible and durable. This tree was common along river bottoms of the Comanchería.

We interrupt this Inauguration for an important Lemur break...

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My New Job as the Dolphin Adventure Photographer!!




Sea Life Park, Makapu'u Beach, Island of O'ahu, Nation of Hawai'i




NIkon D7000 - Tamron 70-300mm




1/1250 sec - f/5.6 - ISO 400

Sea Life Park Hawaii

Image by Justin Ornellas
Website | Blog | Twit | Face

My New Job as the Dolphin Adventure Photographer!!

Sea Life Park, Makapu'u Beach, Island of O'ahu, Nation of Hawai'i

NIkon D7000 - Tamron 70-300mm

1/800 sec - f/5.6 - ISO 400

Sea Life Park Hawaii

Image by Justin Ornellas
Website | Blog | Twit | Face

My New Job as the Dolphin Adventure Photographer!!

Sea Life Park, Makapu'u Beach, Island of O'ahu, Nation of Hawai'i

NIkon D7000 - Tamron 70-300mm

1/800 sec - f/7.1 - ISO 400

Madras Thorn, Sweet Tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce 's tree ...Cây Me Keo, Me Nước ....

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Chụp hình ở thị trấn Bến Lức, thuộc tỉnh Long An, cách thành phố Hồ chí MInh ( Saigon ) 30 km.

Taken in Bến Lức little town, belong to Long An province, 30 km from Saigon ( Hồ chí Minh city , South Vietnam

Vietnamese named : Me Keo, Keo Tây, Me nước, Găng Tây.
Common names : Sweet Tamarind, Madras Thorn, Manila Tamarind. Jungle Jalebi.
Scientist name : Pithecellobium dulce ( Roxb.) Benth.
Synonyms : Mimosa dulcis Roxb. , Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd
Family : Fabaceae / Mimosaceae. Họ Đậu / họ phụ Trinh Nữ Mimosoideae

Searched from :

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vho.vn/view.htm?ID=2674&keyword=S%E1%BB%91t

Me nước, Me keo, Găng tây hay Keo tây - Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth., thuộc họ Đậu- Fabaceae.

Mô tả: Cây gỗ có thể cao đến 10m. Lá kèm biến đổi thành gai. Cuống lá chính dài 2-2,5cm, mọc so le, phân thành hai cuống nhỏ dài 1cm, mỗi cuống nhỏ mang hai lá chét, phiến lệch đến tù. Hoa nhỏ màu trắng mọc thành chùm ở đầu cành, gồm nhiều cụm hình đầu đường kính 0,8-1cm. Quả dài 5-8cm, rộng 1cm, xoắn làm 2-3 lần cong queo thắt lại giữa các hạt. Hạt màu đen và bóng, nằm trong một lớp cơm quả.

Mùa hoa quả từ tháng 8 đến tháng 3 năm sau.

Bộ phận dùng: Rễ, lá và vỏ - Radix, Folium et Cortex Pithecellobii Dulcis.

Nơi sống và thu hái: Cây của Mỹ châu nhiệt đới, truyền vào nước ta, được trồng và trở thành hoang dại cả ở đồng bằng và miền núi. Thường trồng làm hàng rào. Trồng bằng hạt. Ta có thể thu hái lá, rễ quanh năm để làm thuốc. Rễ thái nhỏ, phơi khô, lá thường dùng tươi.

Tính vị, tác dụng: Vỏ, rễ đều có tác dụng hạ nhiệt.

Công dụng, chỉ định và phối hợp: Cơm quả (áo hạt) ăn được có vị bùi và béo. Lá me nước được dùng trị bệnh đái đường. Rễ dùng trị bệnh sốt rét. Thường dùng dưới dạng thuốc sắc, mỗi ngày 10-20g. Vỏ cây được sử dụng làm thuốc trị sốt ở Guyan. Ở Ấn Ðộ nước sắc vỏ dùng làm thuốc thụt.

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Me keo là tên gọi của một loài cây xanh thân gỗ đa tác dụng, là một loài thực vật có tính chống chịu cao, có thể sống được trên nhiều loại đất khác nhau, ưa sáng và chịu hạn tốt, đặc biệt rất thích hợp với vùng đất cát pha ven biển. Thân cây có nhiều gai nhọn chống được các loại động vật phá hoại, lá cải tạo được đất, rễ có nhiều nốt sần chứa các vi khuẩn cộng sinh cố định đạm, cành ngắn, nhỏ, mang ít lá và lá nhỏ, chịu được gió bão... nên thường được trồng làm vành đai phòng hộ các khu vực sản xuất cây nông nghiệp, làm cây che bóng cho cây công nghiệp dài ngày, làm cây cải tạo đất... Phấn hoa là nguồn dinh dưỡng cho các loài ong mật, mật sản xuất từ chúng được đánh giá có chất lượng cao. Cây còn có khả năng tỏa bóng tốt, ngoại hình và lá đẹp, nên cũng thường được trồng làm cây che bóng và cây cảnh. Ngoài ra, quả me keo cũng là nguồn thực phẩm quen thuộc của nhiều vùng dân cư trên thế giới. Nhiều nơi dùng quả xanh để làm rau, có thể ăn sống hoặc chiên xào; thịt quả chín có vị chua chua, ngọt ngọt như me, được dùng làm nước giải khát, từ đó nó mang tên tiếng Anh là Manila tamarind (me Manila ). Quả me keo cũng là một trong những loại thức ăn của khỉ và các động vật nuôi. Để thể hiện đặc điểm ăn được, các nhà thực vật học trên toàn cầu đã chấp nhận tên khoa học của nó là Pithecellobium dulce (dulce: ăn được). Vỏ cây me keo chứa nhiều ta-nanh, thường được khai thác làm thuốc nhuộm vàng. Trong y học dân gian của một số nước, nước sắc từ vỏ cây dùng chữa bệnh tiêu chảy; lá được dùng đắp ngoài da để chữa đau, tấy và bệnh hoa liễu; nước sắc từ lá cũng được sử dụng cho chứng khó tiêu; vỏ cây cũng được sử dụng như một nguồn dược liệu nhiều ta-nanh. Có lẽ vì có quá nhiều tác dụng như thế, vốn xuất thân từ châu Mỹ, dần dần me keo có mặt hầu khắp thế giới, nhất là vùng nhiệt đới châu Phi, châu Á..................

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Sinh thái:
Cây thuộc loài cây ưa sáng, chịu hạn, có thể mọc trên nhiều loại đất, thích hợp với vùng đất pha cát ven biển.
Mùa hoa và quả rải rác từ tháng 8 - 3.
Công dụng:
Gỗ có thể đóng đồ đạc, làm nhà. Trồng cây chắn gió, chắn cát, ven biển. Quả có áo hạt ăn được. Cây có thể gây nuôi cánh kiến đỏ.

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Family • Leguminosae
Kamatsile
Pithecellobium dulce
SWEET TAMARIND

Gen info / Etymology
Referred to as manila tamarind because of the sweet-sour tamarind-like taste. Genus Pithecellobium derives from from the Greek words 'pithekos' (ape) and 'lobos' (pod), and the species name 'dulce' from the Latin 'dulcis' meaning sweet.

Botany
Tree 5-18 meters high, with pendulous branches, with short, sharp stipular spines. The leaves are evenly 2-pinnate, 4 to 8 cm long. The flowers are white, in dense heads, 1 cm in diameter. Pods are turgid, twisted, and spiral, 10 to 18 cm long, 1 cm wide, and dehiscent along the lower suture. Seeds are 6-8, with an edible, whitish, pulpy aril. The arillus is sweet when the fruit is ripe.

Distribution
Found throughout the Philippines at low or medium altitudes.

Constituents
Tannin, 25.36%; fixed oil, 18.22%, olein.
A glycoside quercitin has been isolated.
Seeds have been reported to contain steroids, saponins, lipids, phospholipids, glycosides, glycolipids and polysaccharides.
Roots reported to be estrogenic.

Properties
Considered abortifacient, anodyne, astringent, larvicidal, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, febrifuge, antidiabetic.

Parts used and preparation
Bark, leaves.

Uses
Nutrion
Pulp around the seed is edible.
Folkloric
• Frequent bowel movements: Decoction of bark taken as tea.
• The leaves, when applied as plasters, used for pain, venereal sores.
• Salted decoction of leaves, for indigestion; also used as abortifacient.
• Bark used in dysentery, dermatitis and eye inflammation.
• In Brazil, P. avaremotem, used as a cancer elixir.
• In Mexico, decoction of leaves for earaches, leprosy, toothaches and larvicide.
• In India, bark of the plant used as astringent in dysentery, febrifuge. Also used for dermatitis and eye inflammations. Leaves used as abortifacient.
• In Guiana, root bark used for dysentery and as febrifuge.

Studies
• Anti-Inflammatory / Antibacterial: Study of the fresh flowers of Pithecellobium dulce yielded a glycoside quercitin. The activity of the flavonol glycoside confirmed its antiinflammatory and antibacterial properties.
• Phenolics / Antioxidant: Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Folklore: Pithecellobium dulce Benth. Leaves: Study of the aqueous extract of Pithecellobium dulce leaves revealed phenolics including flavonoids and showed potent free radical scavenging activity..
• Anti-inflammatory Triterpene: Anti-inflammatory triterpene saponins of Pithecellobium dulce: characterization of an echinocystic acid bisdesmoside. A new bisdesmodic triterpenoid saponin, dulcin, was isolated from the seeds of PD
• Genotoxicity: Mutagenic and Antimutagenic Activities in Philippine Medicinal and Food Plants: In a study of 138 medicinal plants for genotoxicity, Pithecellobium dulce was one of 12 that exhibited detectable genotoxicity in any system.
• Anti-tuberculosis / Antimicrobial: Hexane, chloroform and alcoholic leaf extracts were studied for activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. The alcoholic extract showed good inhibitory activity and antimicrobial activity against secondary pathogens.
• Anti-Diabetic: Study of ethanolic and aqueous leaf extract of P dulce in STZ-induced diabetic model in rats showed sigificant activity, aqueous more than the alcoholic extract, comparable to glibenclamide.
• Anti-Ulcer / Free Radical Scavenging: Study of the hydroalcoholic extract of PD was found to possess good antioxidant activity and suggests possible antiulcer activity with its free-radical scavenging and inhibition of H, K-ATPase activities comparable to omeprazole. Phytochemical screening yielded flavonoids - quercetin, rutin, kaempferol, naringin, daidzein.

Availability
Wild crafted.

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Pithecellobium dulce is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.[2] It is introduced and extensively naturalised in the Caribbean, Florida, Guam and Southeast Asia. It is considered an invasive species in Hawaii.
It is known by the name "Madras thorn", but it is not native to Madras. The name "Manila tamarind" is misleading, since it is neither closely related to tamarind, nor native to Manila. The name "monkeypod" is more commonly used for the rain tree (Albizia saman). Other names include blackbead, sweet Inga,[2] cuauhmochitl (Nahuatl), guamúchil (Spanish), ʻopiuma (Hawaiian), kamachile (Filipino),[3] વિલાયતી આંબલી vilayati ambli (Gujarati), जंगल जलेबी jungle jalebi or ganga imli (Hindi), তেঁতুল tetul (Bengali), seeme hunase (Kannada), विलायती चिंच vilayati chinch (Marathi) , கொடுக்காப்புளி kodukkappuli (Tamil), and సీమ చింత seema chinta (Telugu).

Synonyms

This plant is known under numerous junior synonyms
Acacia obliquifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
Albizia dulcis (Roxb.) F.Muell.
Feuilleea dulcis (Roxb.) Kuntze
Inga camatchili Perr.
Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd.
Inga javana DC.
Inga javanica DC.
Inga lanceolata sensu Blanco
Inga lanceolata Willd. is Pithecellobium lanceolatum
Inga leucantha C.Presl
Inga pungens Willd.
Mimosa dulcis Roxb.
Mimosa edulis Gagnep.
Mimosa pungens (Willd.) Poir.
Mimosa unguis-cati Blanco
Mimosa unguis-cati L. is Pithecellobium unguis-cati
Pithecellobium littorale Record
Pithecollobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth. (lapsus)

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Uses

Often planted for living fence or thorny hedge, eventually nearly impenetrable, guamachil furnishes food, forage, and firewood, while fixing a little nitrogen. The pods, harvested in Mexico, Cuba, and Thailand, and customarily sold on roadside stands, contain a thick sweetish, but also acidic pulp, eaten raw or made into a drink similar to lemonade. Pods are devoured by livestock of all kinds; the leaves are browsed by horses, cattle, goats, and sheep; and hedge clippings are often gathered for animal feed. The plants withstand heavy browsing. The seeds contain a greenish oil (20%), which, after refining and bleaching, can be used for food or in making soap. The presscake, rich in protein (30%), may be used as stockfeed. Bark used as a fish poison in the Philippines (Perry, 1980). Known in the Philippines as "Kamachil", the wood, malodorous when cut, is used for boxes, crates, fuel, and wagon wheels. The gum exuding from the trunk can be used for mucilage, the tannin for tanning. The bark is harvested for tanning in Mexico. Tree seems promising for the cultivation of the lac insect. Flowers make good honey.

Folk Medicine

Reported to be abortifacient, anodyne, astringent, larvicidal, guamachil is a folk remedy for convulsions, dysentery, dyspepsia, earache, leprosy, peptic ulcers, sores, toothache, and venereal disease (Duke and Wain, 1981). The bark of P. avaremotem, the "avaremo-temo" from Brazil, is a folk cancer elixir (Hartwell, 1967–1971).

Chemistry

The fruit, more probably the aril, is reported to contain, per 100 g, 78 calories, 77.8% water, 3.0% protein, 0.4% fat, 18.2% total carbohydrate, 1.2% fiber, 0.6% ash, 13 mg Ca, 42 mg P, 0.5 mg Fe, 19 mg Na, 222 mg K, 15 mg b-carotene equivalent, 0.24 mg thiamine, 0.10 mg riboflavin, 0.60 mg niacin, and 133 mg ascorbic acid. The essential amino acids in the aril are 143 mg/100 g valine, 178 lysine, 41 phenylalanine, and 26 tryptophan. An Indian aril (60% of the pod) contained 21.0 mg Ca/100 g, 40.0 Mg, 58.0 P, 1.1 Fe, 3.7 Na, 377 K, 0.6 Cu, and 109 S. As calcium pectate, pectin occurs as 0.96% of the sugars (mostly glucose) analysis of the aril (C.S.I.R., 1948–1976). The whole fruit, with husk and seeds (58% refuse) contains 33 calories, 32.7% moisture, 1.3 g protein, 0.2 g fat, 7.6 g total carbohydrate, 0.5 g fiber, 0.2 g ash, 5 mg Ca, 18 mg P, 0.2 mg Fe, 8 mg Na, 93 mg K, 5 mcg b-carotene equivalent, 0.10 mg thiamine, 0.4 mg riboflavin, 0.2 mg niacin, and 56 mg ascorbic acid (Leung et al, 1972). Per 100 g, the seed is reported to contain 13.5 g H2O, 17.7 g protein, 17.1 g fat, 41.4 g starch, 7.8 g fiber, 2.6 g ash. On alcoholic extraction, the seeds yield a saponin, a sterol glucoside, a flavone, and lecithin. The fatty acid composition of the seed is 24.3% saturated acids, 51.1% oleic, and 24.0% linoleic. Hager's Handbook (List and Horhammer, 1969–1979) reports 0.3% caprylic, 0.3% caprinic, 0.3% lauric, 0.8% myristic, 12.1% palmitic, 6.9% stearic, 3.1% arachidic, 13.1% behenic, 4.9% lignoceric, 32.2% oleic, and 26.0% linoleic acids in the fatty acids. Further listed is a saponin containing oleanolic- and echinocytic acids, with the sugar sequence xylose, arabinose, and glucose; also pithogenin, (C28H44O4), hederagenin and sodium nimbinate (which latter two are said to be antiarthritic and antiedemic in rats). Wax, hexacosanol, L-proline, L-leucine, L-valine, and asparagine, are also reported from the fruit, leucoro-binetinidin, leucofisetinidin, and melacacidin from the wood. After extraction of ca 20% edible oil, the seed cake, with 29.7% protein, can be used as animal feed. Bark contains up to 37% of a catechol type tannin. Bark also yields a yellow dye and 1.5% pectin. It is said to cause dermititis and eye inflammation. According to Roskoski et al (1980), studying Mexican material, the seeds contain 14.00% humidity, 2.66% ash, 25.69% CP, 8.12% EE, 22.16% CF, 26.97% carbohydrates with a 80.84% in vitro digestibility. The foliage contains 6.46% humidity, 15.34% ash, 17.17% CP, 6.83% EE, 30–95% CF, 23.25% carbohydrates, and 71.46% in vitro digestibility. For comparison, the Wealth of India reports (ZMB): 29.0% CP, 4.4% EE, 17.5% fiber, 43.6% NFE, 5.6% ash, 1.14% Ca, and 0.35% P. The manurial value of dry leaves is 4.91% N, 0.78% P2O5, 1.04% CaO, and 2.67% K2O. The antitumor compound, b-sitosterol (perhaps ubiquitous), and campesterol, stigmasterol, and a-spinasterol occur in the heartwood (C.S.I.R., 1948–1976).

Young leaves of Pithecellobium dulce , Madras Thorn, Sweet Tamarind...Lá non của cây Me Keo ....

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Chụp hình ở thị trấn Bến Lức, thuộc tỉnh Long An, cách thành phố Hồ chí MInh ( Saigon ) 30 km.

Taken in Bến Lức little town, belong to Long An province, 30 km from Saigon ( Hồ chí Minh city , South Vietnam

Vietnamese named : Me Keo, Keo Tây, Me nước, Găng Tây.
Common names : Sweet Tamarind, Madras Thorn, Manila Tamarind. Jungle Jalebi.
Scientist name : Pithecellobium dulce ( Roxb.) Benth.
Synonyms : Mimosa dulcis Roxb. , Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd
Family : Fabaceae / Mimosaceae. Họ Đậu / họ phụ Trinh Nữ Mimosoideae

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Me nước, Me keo, Găng tây hay Keo tây - Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth., thuộc họ Đậu- Fabaceae.

Mô tả: Cây gỗ có thể cao đến 10m. Lá kèm biến đổi thành gai. Cuống lá chính dài 2-2,5cm, mọc so le, phân thành hai cuống nhỏ dài 1cm, mỗi cuống nhỏ mang hai lá chét, phiến lệch đến tù. Hoa nhỏ màu trắng mọc thành chùm ở đầu cành, gồm nhiều cụm hình đầu đường kính 0,8-1cm. Quả dài 5-8cm, rộng 1cm, xoắn làm 2-3 lần cong queo thắt lại giữa các hạt. Hạt màu đen và bóng, nằm trong một lớp cơm quả.

Mùa hoa quả từ tháng 8 đến tháng 3 năm sau.

Bộ phận dùng: Rễ, lá và vỏ - Radix, Folium et Cortex Pithecellobii Dulcis.

Nơi sống và thu hái: Cây của Mỹ châu nhiệt đới, truyền vào nước ta, được trồng và trở thành hoang dại cả ở đồng bằng và miền núi. Thường trồng làm hàng rào. Trồng bằng hạt. Ta có thể thu hái lá, rễ quanh năm để làm thuốc. Rễ thái nhỏ, phơi khô, lá thường dùng tươi.

Tính vị, tác dụng: Vỏ, rễ đều có tác dụng hạ nhiệt.

Công dụng, chỉ định và phối hợp: Cơm quả (áo hạt) ăn được có vị bùi và béo. Lá me nước được dùng trị bệnh đái đường. Rễ dùng trị bệnh sốt rét. Thường dùng dưới dạng thuốc sắc, mỗi ngày 10-20g. Vỏ cây được sử dụng làm thuốc trị sốt ở Guyan. Ở Ấn Ðộ nước sắc vỏ dùng làm thuốc thụt.

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Me keo là tên gọi của một loài cây xanh thân gỗ đa tác dụng, là một loài thực vật có tính chống chịu cao, có thể sống được trên nhiều loại đất khác nhau, ưa sáng và chịu hạn tốt, đặc biệt rất thích hợp với vùng đất cát pha ven biển. Thân cây có nhiều gai nhọn chống được các loại động vật phá hoại, lá cải tạo được đất, rễ có nhiều nốt sần chứa các vi khuẩn cộng sinh cố định đạm, cành ngắn, nhỏ, mang ít lá và lá nhỏ, chịu được gió bão... nên thường được trồng làm vành đai phòng hộ các khu vực sản xuất cây nông nghiệp, làm cây che bóng cho cây công nghiệp dài ngày, làm cây cải tạo đất... Phấn hoa là nguồn dinh dưỡng cho các loài ong mật, mật sản xuất từ chúng được đánh giá có chất lượng cao. Cây còn có khả năng tỏa bóng tốt, ngoại hình và lá đẹp, nên cũng thường được trồng làm cây che bóng và cây cảnh. Ngoài ra, quả me keo cũng là nguồn thực phẩm quen thuộc của nhiều vùng dân cư trên thế giới. Nhiều nơi dùng quả xanh để làm rau, có thể ăn sống hoặc chiên xào; thịt quả chín có vị chua chua, ngọt ngọt như me, được dùng làm nước giải khát, từ đó nó mang tên tiếng Anh là Manila tamarind (me Manila ). Quả me keo cũng là một trong những loại thức ăn của khỉ và các động vật nuôi. Để thể hiện đặc điểm ăn được, các nhà thực vật học trên toàn cầu đã chấp nhận tên khoa học của nó là Pithecellobium dulce (dulce: ăn được). Vỏ cây me keo chứa nhiều ta-nanh, thường được khai thác làm thuốc nhuộm vàng. Trong y học dân gian của một số nước, nước sắc từ vỏ cây dùng chữa bệnh tiêu chảy; lá được dùng đắp ngoài da để chữa đau, tấy và bệnh hoa liễu; nước sắc từ lá cũng được sử dụng cho chứng khó tiêu; vỏ cây cũng được sử dụng như một nguồn dược liệu nhiều ta-nanh. Có lẽ vì có quá nhiều tác dụng như thế, vốn xuất thân từ châu Mỹ, dần dần me keo có mặt hầu khắp thế giới, nhất là vùng nhiệt đới châu Phi, châu Á..................

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Phân bố:
Thế giới:, Lào, Campuchia, Thái Lan, Mianma, ấn Độ, Inđônêxia...
Việt Nam: cây được trồng rộng rãi ở nhiều tỉnh từ Hà Bắc, Vĩnh Phú tới các tỉnh Tây Nguyên, mềm Trung, miền Nam và các Hải đảo.
Sinh thái:
Cây thuộc loài cây ưa sáng, chịu hạn, có thể mọc trên nhiều loại đất, thích hợp với vùng đất pha cát ven biển.
Mùa hoa và quả rải rác từ tháng 8 - 3.
Công dụng:
Gỗ có thể đóng đồ đạc, làm nhà. Trồng cây chắn gió, chắn cát, ven biển. Quả có áo hạt ăn được. Cây có thể gây nuôi cánh kiến đỏ.

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**** PHILIPPINE MEDICINAL PLANTS
www.stuartxchange.com/Kamatsile.html

Family • Leguminosae
Kamatsile
Pithecellobium dulce
SWEET TAMARIND

Gen info / Etymology
Referred to as manila tamarind because of the sweet-sour tamarind-like taste. Genus Pithecellobium derives from from the Greek words 'pithekos' (ape) and 'lobos' (pod), and the species name 'dulce' from the Latin 'dulcis' meaning sweet.

Botany
Tree 5-18 meters high, with pendulous branches, with short, sharp stipular spines. The leaves are evenly 2-pinnate, 4 to 8 cm long. The flowers are white, in dense heads, 1 cm in diameter. Pods are turgid, twisted, and spiral, 10 to 18 cm long, 1 cm wide, and dehiscent along the lower suture. Seeds are 6-8, with an edible, whitish, pulpy aril. The arillus is sweet when the fruit is ripe.

Distribution
Found throughout the Philippines at low or medium altitudes.

Constituents
Tannin, 25.36%; fixed oil, 18.22%, olein.
A glycoside quercitin has been isolated.
Seeds have been reported to contain steroids, saponins, lipids, phospholipids, glycosides, glycolipids and polysaccharides.
Roots reported to be estrogenic.

Properties
Considered abortifacient, anodyne, astringent, larvicidal, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, febrifuge, antidiabetic.

Parts used and preparation
Bark, leaves.

Uses
Nutrion
Pulp around the seed is edible.
Folkloric
• Frequent bowel movements: Decoction of bark taken as tea.
• The leaves, when applied as plasters, used for pain, venereal sores.
• Salted decoction of leaves, for indigestion; also used as abortifacient.
• Bark used in dysentery, dermatitis and eye inflammation.
• In Brazil, P. avaremotem, used as a cancer elixir.
• In Mexico, decoction of leaves for earaches, leprosy, toothaches and larvicide.
• In India, bark of the plant used as astringent in dysentery, febrifuge. Also used for dermatitis and eye inflammations. Leaves used as abortifacient.
• In Guiana, root bark used for dysentery and as febrifuge.

Studies
• Anti-Inflammatory / Antibacterial: Study of the fresh flowers of Pithecellobium dulce yielded a glycoside quercitin. The activity of the flavonol glycoside confirmed its antiinflammatory and antibacterial properties.
• Phenolics / Antioxidant: Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Folklore: Pithecellobium dulce Benth. Leaves: Study of the aqueous extract of Pithecellobium dulce leaves revealed phenolics including flavonoids and showed potent free radical scavenging activity..
• Anti-inflammatory Triterpene: Anti-inflammatory triterpene saponins of Pithecellobium dulce: characterization of an echinocystic acid bisdesmoside. A new bisdesmodic triterpenoid saponin, dulcin, was isolated from the seeds of PD
• Genotoxicity: Mutagenic and Antimutagenic Activities in Philippine Medicinal and Food Plants: In a study of 138 medicinal plants for genotoxicity, Pithecellobium dulce was one of 12 that exhibited detectable genotoxicity in any system.
• Anti-tuberculosis / Antimicrobial: Hexane, chloroform and alcoholic leaf extracts were studied for activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. The alcoholic extract showed good inhibitory activity and antimicrobial activity against secondary pathogens.
• Anti-Diabetic: Study of ethanolic and aqueous leaf extract of P dulce in STZ-induced diabetic model in rats showed sigificant activity, aqueous more than the alcoholic extract, comparable to glibenclamide.
• Anti-Ulcer / Free Radical Scavenging: Study of the hydroalcoholic extract of PD was found to possess good antioxidant activity and suggests possible antiulcer activity with its free-radical scavenging and inhibition of H, K-ATPase activities comparable to omeprazole. Phytochemical screening yielded flavonoids - quercetin, rutin, kaempferol, naringin, daidzein.

Availability
Wild crafted.

**** WIKI : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE, PLEASE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithecellobium_dulce

Pithecellobium dulce is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.[2] It is introduced and extensively naturalised in the Caribbean, Florida, Guam and Southeast Asia. It is considered an invasive species in Hawaii.
It is known by the name "Madras thorn", but it is not native to Madras. The name "Manila tamarind" is misleading, since it is neither closely related to tamarind, nor native to Manila. The name "monkeypod" is more commonly used for the rain tree (Albizia saman). Other names include blackbead, sweet Inga,[2] cuauhmochitl (Nahuatl), guamúchil (Spanish), ʻopiuma (Hawaiian), kamachile (Filipino),[3] વિલાયતી આંબલી vilayati ambli (Gujarati), जंगल जलेबी jungle jalebi or ganga imli (Hindi), তেঁতুল tetul (Bengali), seeme hunase (Kannada), विलायती चिंच vilayati chinch (Marathi) , கொடுக்காப்புளி kodukkappuli (Tamil), and సీమ చింత seema chinta (Telugu).

Synonyms

This plant is known under numerous junior synonyms
Acacia obliquifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
Albizia dulcis (Roxb.) F.Muell.
Feuilleea dulcis (Roxb.) Kuntze
Inga camatchili Perr.
Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd.
Inga javana DC.
Inga javanica DC.
Inga lanceolata sensu Blanco
Inga lanceolata Willd. is Pithecellobium lanceolatum
Inga leucantha C.Presl
Inga pungens Willd.
Mimosa dulcis Roxb.
Mimosa edulis Gagnep.
Mimosa pungens (Willd.) Poir.
Mimosa unguis-cati Blanco
Mimosa unguis-cati L. is Pithecellobium unguis-cati
Pithecellobium littorale Record
Pithecollobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth. (lapsus)

**** HORT.PURDUE.EDU : click on link to read more, please....
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Uses

Often planted for living fence or thorny hedge, eventually nearly impenetrable, guamachil furnishes food, forage, and firewood, while fixing a little nitrogen. The pods, harvested in Mexico, Cuba, and Thailand, and customarily sold on roadside stands, contain a thick sweetish, but also acidic pulp, eaten raw or made into a drink similar to lemonade. Pods are devoured by livestock of all kinds; the leaves are browsed by horses, cattle, goats, and sheep; and hedge clippings are often gathered for animal feed. The plants withstand heavy browsing. The seeds contain a greenish oil (20%), which, after refining and bleaching, can be used for food or in making soap. The presscake, rich in protein (30%), may be used as stockfeed. Bark used as a fish poison in the Philippines (Perry, 1980). Known in the Philippines as "Kamachil", the wood, malodorous when cut, is used for boxes, crates, fuel, and wagon wheels. The gum exuding from the trunk can be used for mucilage, the tannin for tanning. The bark is harvested for tanning in Mexico. Tree seems promising for the cultivation of the lac insect. Flowers make good honey.

Folk Medicine

Reported to be abortifacient, anodyne, astringent, larvicidal, guamachil is a folk remedy for convulsions, dysentery, dyspepsia, earache, leprosy, peptic ulcers, sores, toothache, and venereal disease (Duke and Wain, 1981). The bark of P. avaremotem, the "avaremo-temo" from Brazil, is a folk cancer elixir (Hartwell, 1967–1971).

Chemistry

The fruit, more probably the aril, is reported to contain, per 100 g, 78 calories, 77.8% water, 3.0% protein, 0.4% fat, 18.2% total carbohydrate, 1.2% fiber, 0.6% ash, 13 mg Ca, 42 mg P, 0.5 mg Fe, 19 mg Na, 222 mg K, 15 mg b-carotene equivalent, 0.24 mg thiamine, 0.10 mg riboflavin, 0.60 mg niacin, and 133 mg ascorbic acid. The essential amino acids in the aril are 143 mg/100 g valine, 178 lysine, 41 phenylalanine, and 26 tryptophan. An Indian aril (60% of the pod) contained 21.0 mg Ca/100 g, 40.0 Mg, 58.0 P, 1.1 Fe, 3.7 Na, 377 K, 0.6 Cu, and 109 S. As calcium pectate, pectin occurs as 0.96% of the sugars (mostly glucose) analysis of the aril (C.S.I.R., 1948–1976). The whole fruit, with husk and seeds (58% refuse) contains 33 calories, 32.7% moisture, 1.3 g protein, 0.2 g fat, 7.6 g total carbohydrate, 0.5 g fiber, 0.2 g ash, 5 mg Ca, 18 mg P, 0.2 mg Fe, 8 mg Na, 93 mg K, 5 mcg b-carotene equivalent, 0.10 mg thiamine, 0.4 mg riboflavin, 0.2 mg niacin, and 56 mg ascorbic acid (Leung et al, 1972). Per 100 g, the seed is reported to contain 13.5 g H2O, 17.7 g protein, 17.1 g fat, 41.4 g starch, 7.8 g fiber, 2.6 g ash. On alcoholic extraction, the seeds yield a saponin, a sterol glucoside, a flavone, and lecithin. The fatty acid composition of the seed is 24.3% saturated acids, 51.1% oleic, and 24.0% linoleic. Hager's Handbook (List and Horhammer, 1969–1979) reports 0.3% caprylic, 0.3% caprinic, 0.3% lauric, 0.8% myristic, 12.1% palmitic, 6.9% stearic, 3.1% arachidic, 13.1% behenic, 4.9% lignoceric, 32.2% oleic, and 26.0% linoleic acids in the fatty acids. Further listed is a saponin containing oleanolic- and echinocytic acids, with the sugar sequence xylose, arabinose, and glucose; also pithogenin, (C28H44O4), hederagenin and sodium nimbinate (which latter two are said to be antiarthritic and antiedemic in rats). Wax, hexacosanol, L-proline, L-leucine, L-valine, and asparagine, are also reported from the fruit, leucoro-binetinidin, leucofisetinidin, and melacacidin from the wood. After extraction of ca 20% edible oil, the seed cake, with 29.7% protein, can be used as animal feed. Bark contains up to 37% of a catechol type tannin. Bark also yields a yellow dye and 1.5% pectin. It is said to cause dermititis and eye inflammation. According to Roskoski et al (1980), studying Mexican material, the seeds contain 14.00% humidity, 2.66% ash, 25.69% CP, 8.12% EE, 22.16% CF, 26.97% carbohydrates with a 80.84% in vitro digestibility. The foliage contains 6.46% humidity, 15.34% ash, 17.17% CP, 6.83% EE, 30–95% CF, 23.25% carbohydrates, and 71.46% in vitro digestibility. For comparison, the Wealth of India reports (ZMB): 29.0% CP, 4.4% EE, 17.5% fiber, 43.6% NFE, 5.6% ash, 1.14% Ca, and 0.35% P. The manurial value of dry leaves is 4.91% N, 0.78% P2O5, 1.04% CaO, and 2.67% K2O. The antitumor compound, b-sitosterol (perhaps ubiquitous), and campesterol, stigmasterol, and a-spinasterol occur in the heartwood (C.S.I.R., 1948–1976).

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Scientists from the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen have identified a new species: the northern buffed-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus annamensis.
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Proboscis Monkey...thinking

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This endangered species can be found in the mangrove forests of Borneo. My first time seeing this monkey species.

Scientific Name: Nasalis larvatus

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Starving horse in Leon, Nicaragua

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I'd like to throw the guy in jail who abandoned this poor horse to die in the street. Notice the harness sores on his chest and the skinned knees where he undoubtedly fell down under the whip. The bastard who turned this horse loose in the street nearly worked it to death.

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Tipton St John Scout Group learn about DonkeyS. Photo copyright of The Donkey Sanctuary

Image by Donkey Sanctuary Press Images
SCOUT TROOP SPENDING TERM AT THE DONKEY SANCTUARY

A 19 strong group of Scouts are spending their entire autumn term learning about the worldwide work of The Donkey Sanctuary and meet each Monday at the charity headquarters near Sidmouth.

On Monday 8th November the 1st Tipton St. John Scout Troop will be learning about the charity’s work in Mainland Europe in six project countries including sanctuaries in Cyprus, Italy and Spain.

Since the 6th September, the Scout Troop have been involved with caring for the donkeys (grooming etc), learning about the history of The Donkey Sanctuary and had introductions to the Fundraising and PR functions of the charity.

Dawn Vincent, who held the 4th October session on Public Relations, involved the Scouts in writing a quote for a news release, which would help to promote the work of the charity in local press.

Jack Roberts of 1st Tipton St. John Scout Troop said: “I was amazed by how much work is put in everyday, all over the world and how much they care about every single donkey.”

Over the next few weeks, the 1st Tipton St. John Scout Troop can look forward to hearing about the charity’s work overseas on international veterinary aid and educational work, including the opportunity to make toggles using leathers and materials used in project countries.

Jan Aherne, the Education and Activities Manager who has organised the action and fact-filled term for the Scout Troop says: “It is wonderful to share our devotion of donkeys with the Scouts and we hope they learn a great deal about our worldwide work in a fun and interesting way.”

The Scout Troop are working towards their Global, Community and Promise challenge badges and will be presented with these on Friday 10th December during the Sanctuary’s Carol by Candlelight event.

ENDS

NOTES TO EDITOR
For an interview, further information or images, please contact The Donkey Sanctuary press office on 01395 573097/573014 or mobile 07970 927778

Download a high resolution image for this story at:

About The Donkey Sanctuary
The Donkey Sanctuary aims to protect donkeys and mules and promote their welfare worldwide.

The charity was founded by Dr Elisabeth Svendsen M.B.E. in 1969 and has since provided a sanctuary for life to more than 14,500 donkeys and mules in the UK, Ireland and Mainland Europe.

It alleviates the suffering of working donkeys in developing countries and has major projects in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Mexico where donkey welfare is improved through education and veterinary work.

The charity relies entirely on donations to continue its vital work in 29 countries worldwide. For further information telephone: 01395 578222, view www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk or visit the charity’s headquarters near Sidmouth in Devon (open 365 days/free admission).

Collective Quotes from the 1st Tipton St John Scout Troop:
•Chris Seers: “I have had a great time at The Donkey Sanctuary, and I have learned that donkeys are very interesting animals”

•Lily Pearson: “I’m feeling really excited because I know I’m working with a charity that changes the world each day”

•Jamie Davis: “The experience at The Donkey Sanctuary has been interesting, but also very motivating. It is intriguing about the history and what the staff have done to help improve their lives”

•Madeleine Roberts: “I’m loving my time at The Donkey Sanctuary because I know that if I continue learning about them, I have the potential to change a donkey’s life. Even cleaning out a donkey has been great, because I’ve never been so hands on before in my life”

•Harry Holmden-Bollard: “I like coming to The Donkey Sanctuary because it is fun spending time with the donkeys. I have learned that a lot of owners do not treat their donkeys with respect and know the way they should be treated”

•Amy Taylor: “Over the past couple of weeks I have been coming to The Donkey Sanctuary I have seen some really great things which have come out of some really bad things. I now feel strongly about the welfare of donkeys, but I know that not every owner in the world is as kind to their donkeys as others.”

•Polly Edwards: “I think that I am amazed and impressed by how long the people at The Donkey Sanctuary have worked, and how much they put into it – and how many donkeys they rescue from all over the world every year.”

•Jack Roberts: “I was amazed by how much work is put in everyday, all over the world – and how much they care about every single donkey, no matter how big or small.”

•Charles Amos: “I think that the donkeys don’t deserve to be treated in a horrible way. The people who use the donkeys to work shouldn’t treat them unkindly. I have been working with the donkeys that have been brought in, and I am finding out different things about them. They have a right to be treated they way we would like to be treated because they help us. I am working for a badge for my scout activities. I love working with the donkeys, they are lovely. Please carry on treating the donkeys nicely”

•Ben Wilkins: “I think The Donkey Sanctuary does some really good work to help the donkeys”

•Tobias Walters: “I think the people at The Donkey Sanctuary are very kind and caring towards these amazing animals”

•Lewis Douglas: “I think The Donkey Sanctuary is a fabulous idea. They take in an array of different donkeys and make sure they live a happy life – and live it to the full extent”

•Tom Gardner: “Since I’ve been at The Donkey Sanctuary I’ve become more interested in donkeys and giving them hope”

•Matthew Shepherd: “Help donkeys at The Donkey Sanctuary every day to help them live a happy life”

•Finn Hutchings: “I think The Donkey Sanctuary is a good charity, looking after poor and wounded donkeys and giving them a good life, helping them to live a lot longer and giving them hope”

•Joanna Barker: “I think that The Donkey Sanctuary is a great charity. The staff there have the expertise to advise and expand. They have shown presentations that have made me feel touched, and also sad about how some donkeys are treated all over the world”

•Jacob Franks: “The most amazing, revealing experience of all time – hardworking and worth it”

A witch in disguise, perhaps?

Image by Gabriela Ruellan
This is a followup to a series of events started here.

So, after a month and a half spent in pupal stage, this moth eclosed yesterday at 3 AM (yay! — and there's still one pupa left in the jar). I did some photo sessions of it and left it in the garden at dusk, then it flew away.
Yesterday was overcast and rainy, so I had to resort to artificial lighting.

I don't know much about Citheronias, but this one looked like it was a female, judging by the thin antennae and from the fact that it spent quite a lot of time doing the pheromone release thing. The one that's about to eclose should be a male then, since the two pupae were different. Suspense...

Edit: It is a female, lol. It did not go away, it's still in the garden and has managed to attract not just one male, but two. Impressive, considering I had never seen a male Citheronia moth before.

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Esta es la continuación de una serie de eventos que comenzó acá.

Bueno, después de haber pasado un mes y medio en estado pupal, esta mariposa nocturna hizo eclosión ayer a las 3 de la mañana (¡iupi! y todavía queda una pupa en el tarro). Le hice algunas sesiones de fotos, la dejé en el jardín al anochecer, y ahí se fue.
Ayer estuvo nublado y lluvioso, así que tuve que recurrir a la luz artificial.

Mucho no sé de Citheronias, pero esta parecía ser una hembra, juzgando por las antenas finitas y por el hecho de que pasaba bastante tiempo haciendo la cosa de echar feromonas. La que está por eclosionar debe ser un macho entonces, porque las dos pupas eran diferentes. Suspenso...

Editado: Es una hembra, jua. No se fue, está todavía en el jardín y consiguió atraer no a un macho, sino a dos. Impresionante, considerando que yo nunca había visto una polilla Citheronia macho antes.

Citheronia brissotii meridionalis ♀
7 cm / 2.75 inches long

Distribution range / Área de distribución: Southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina / Sudeste de Brasil, Paraguay, Uruguay y Argentina

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Waggin' Trail 5K - "Scout"

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Pulling at my shirt =P

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Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)
Another very interesting member of the mulberry family is the osage orange (Maclura pomifera). Native to the midwestern and southeastern United States, this species is also known as the hedge apple because it was planted in thicket-like hedge rows before the advent of barbed wire fences.

The fruit is neither an orange nor an apple, although it approaches the size of those fruits. Like the breadfruit and jackfruit, it is a true multiple fruit composed of numerous separate ovaries, each arising from a separate female flower. In fact, the bumpy surface of the fruit is due to the numerous, tightly-packed ovaries of the female flowers. The black hairs on the surface of the fruit are styles, each arising from a separate ovary.

The wood of osage orange was highly prized by the Osage Indians of Arkansas and Missouri for bows. In fact, osage orange is stronger than oak (Quercus) and as tough as hickory (Carya), and is considered by archers to be one of the finest native North American woods for bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.

A yellow-orange dye is also extracted from the wood and is used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes in arts and industry.

Osage-orange or Horse-apple en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage-orange
Maclura pomifera, known as Osage-orange or Horse-apple, is dioeceous plant species, with male and female flowers on different plants. It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8-15 m tall. The fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in diameter, and it is filled with a sticky white latex sap. In fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor similar to that of oranges

Recent research suggests that elemol, one of the major components of oil extracted from fruit of Osage orange, shows promise as a mosquito repellent with similar activity to DEET in contact and residual repellency.

The fruits are sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruits serve the function of seed dispersal, accomplished by their consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America.

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The fruit from this tree is sometimes called "Monkey Brains" due to its resemblance to a small brain.

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Zoo Negara
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia.

The orangutans are two species of great apes known for their intelligence, long arms and reddish-brown hair. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are currently found only in rainforests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, though fossils have been found in Java, Vietnam and China. They are the only surviving species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily Ponginae (which also includes the extinct genera Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus). Their name derives from the Malay and Indonesian phrase orang hutan, meaning "man of the forest" The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia.

The word orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan and orangutang) is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang meaning "person" and hutan meaning "forest",] thus "person of the forest". Orang Hutan is the common term in these two national languages, although local peoples may also refer to them by local languages. Maias and mawas are also used in Malay, but it is unclear if those words refer only to orangutans, or to all apes in general.

The word was first attested in English in 1691 in the form orang-outang, and variants with -ng instead of -n as in the Malay original are found in many languages. This spelling (and pronunciation) has remained in use in English up to the present, but has come to be regarded as incorrect by some.

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid "monsters" named Pongo and Engeco. It is now believed that he was describing gorillas, but in the late 18th century it was believed that all great apes were orangutans; hence Lacépède's use of Pongo for the genus

Adopted

Some cool animal shelter images:

Adopted

Image by BenSpark
My latest Photo Shoot from the North Attleboro Animal Shelter. I need to write up names and stories to go along with the cats.

Kibbles

Some cool animal friends images:

Kibbles

Image by wbaiv
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Fur Hats with Animal Heads

Image by Travis S.
These are hats that are for sale at one of the shops at the Saturday market.
The only time I have ever seen anyone wear one of these was at Fur Rondy.

Still, they're pretty cool. Check out the size of the feet on the lynx. Wolverines are hard to come by these days, but they have really soft fur that doesn't frost. I've felt some at my friend's landlord's place. The wolf just looks badass with those evil eyes, and the cross fox is a cross between the arctic and red fox.