. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 326 ESSENTIALS OF BOTANY one is the cocoanut (Fig. 226), a drupe containing an enor- mous seed with oily endosperm, eaten in its natural con- dition, and also used in the preparation of many well-known dishes and in confectionery. Chocolate, so well known as a food, a flavoring, and as a beverage, is made from the ground or crushed seeds of the cacao tree (Fig. 227), cultivated in many tropical countries, originally a native of Mexico. Cocoa is merely chocolate deprived of a large part of its oily material. Coffee, which has little value as a food, but i
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 326 ESSENTIALS OF BOTANY one is the cocoanut (Fig. 226), a drupe containing an enor- mous seed with oily endosperm, eaten in its natural con- dition, and also used in the preparation of many well-known dishes and in confectionery. Chocolate, so well known as a food, a flavoring, and as a beverage, is made from the ground or crushed seeds of the cacao tree (Fig. 227), cultivated in many tropical countries, originally a native of Mexico. Cocoa is merely chocolate deprived of a large part of its oily material. Coffee, which has little value as a food, but is most widely used as a stim- ulating beverage, is made from the seeds of a small tree, a native of the moun- tains of eastern Africa, much cultivated in tropical countries. The seeds are borne in red berries abundantly clus- tered in the axils of the leaves(Fig. 228). Many edible nuts of temperate cli- mates are furnished by three families of trees. The Walnut family furnishes the so-called English walnuts, black walnuts, butternuts, pecans, and hick- ory nuts; the Birch family furnishes hazelnuts and filberts; and the Beech family furnishes beechnuts and chestnuts. From the Rose family come almonds, which are drupes, like a peach, but with the ripened ovary-wall fibrous rather than fleshy. From a tropical family related to the mangroves and the myrtles are obtained the well-known Brazil Fig. 226. A Cluster of Cocoanuts. (Much reduced.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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