Tree

LEMON TREE

The Lemon is a species of small evergreen tree native of Asia. the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world ,primairily for its juice, which has both culinary and cleaning uses . the pulp and rind are also used in cooking and banking .the juice of lemon is about 5% to 6% citric acid, which give a sour taste.the distinctive sour taste of lemon juice makes it a key ingredient in drinks and foods such as lemonade and lemon meringue pie.

Medicinal
Lemon oil may be used in aromatherapy .Lemon oil aroma does not influence the human immunity system ,but may enhance mood. The low pH of juice makes it anti bacterial , and in Indiathe lemon is used in Indian traditional madicines (siddha medicine and Ayurveda).

Others
One educational science experiment involves attaching electodes to a lemon and using it as battery  to produce electricity . Although very low power, several lemon batteries can power a small digital watch . This experiment also work other fruits and vegetables . Lemon juice is also sometimes used as an acid in educational science experiments.
Lemon juice may be used as simple invisible ink ,developed by heat.
The oil of the lemons peel also has various uses . It is used as a wood cleaner and polish ,where it solvent .Probably is employed to dissolve old wax ,fingerprints  and grime. Lemon oil and orange oil are also used as  nontoxic insecticide treatment.



Banana tree

The banana is an edible fruit , botanically a berry , produced by several kind of large herbaceous flowering plant in the genus musa . In some countries banana used for cooking may be called plantains. The fruit is variable in size ,colour , and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green ,yellow, red , purple, or brown when ripe . The fruits grown in clusters hanging from the top of the plant . Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedlen) bananas come from two wild species musa  acuminate and musa balbisiana. The  old  scientific name musa sapientum is no longer used. Musa species are native to tropical Indom alaya and Australia and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua new Guinea. They are grown in at least 107 countries primarily for their fruit and to a lesser extent to make fiber , banana wine and banana beer and as ornamental plants .

Religion and popular belief

In Burma bunches of green banana surrounding a green coconut in tray form an important part of traditional offering  to the Budha and the nuts .
In all important festival and occasion of hindus the serving of banana plays a prominent part traditionally in Tamil marriage ,bananas plant are held  on both sides of the entrance of houses to bless the newly weds to be useful to each other . The banana is one of three fruits with this significance ,the other being mango and jackfruit .
In Thailand it is believed that a certain type of banana plants may be inhabited by a spirit Nag Tani  a type of ghost related to trees and similar plants that manifests itself as young women .Often people tie a length of coloured satin cloth around the pseudostem of the banana plant.
In malay folklore , the ghost known as Pontianak is associated with banana plants and its spirit is said to reoide in them during the day.


Coconut tree

It is the only accepted species in the genus to cocos the term coconut refer to the entire coconut palm, the seeds or the fruit , which botanically is a drupe not a nut . The spelling coconut it is an archaic form of the word. The term is derived from th 16th centuries Portuguese and Spanish .Word coco meaning' head ' or 'skull' from the three indentation on he coconut shell that resemble special feature.

 

The coconut is known for its versatility as seen in the many uses of its different parts and found throughout the tropics and subtropics .Coconut are a part of the daily diets of many people .Coconut are different from any other fruit because they contain a large quantity of 'water' and when immature they are known as tender nuts a jelly nuts and may be harvested for drinking . when mature their still contain some water and can be sued as seednuts or processed to give oil from the kernel ,charcoal from the hard shell and coir from the fibrous husk. The endospem  is initially in its nuclear phase suspended within the coconut water.
Unlike some other plants, the palm  tree has neither a tap root  nor root hairs but has a fibrous root system .

Roots

The coconut palm root system consists of an abundance of thin roots that grow outward from the plant near the surface. Only a few of the roots penetrate deep into the soil for stability. The type of root system is known as fibrous or adventitious, and is a characteristic of grass species. Other types of large trees produce a single downward-growing tap root with a number of feeder roots growing from it.

Coconut palms continue to produce roots from the base of the stem throughout its life. The number of roots produced depends on the age of the tree and the environment, with more than 3,600 roots possible on a tree that's 60 to 70 years old.

Roots are usually less than about 3 inches in diameter and uniformly thick from the tree trunk to the root tip.

 

Mango tree

 The mango is the national fruit of India ,Pakistan and the Philippines. It is also the national tree of Bangladesh. In India harvest and sale of mangoes is during march-may and this is annually covered by new agencies . Frooti is an Indian mango drink and coca-cola company started their own drink called 'maaza' to compete with it .

The Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1601AD) is said to have planted a mango orchard having 100,000 trees is Darbhanga eastern India .Dried mango skin and its seeds are also used in Ayurvedic  medicines. Mango leaves are used to decorate  archways and doors in Indian houses and during wedding and celebration such as Ganesh chaturthi .

The mango is a juice stone fruit belonging to the genus mangifera consisting of numerous  tropical fruiting trees cultivated mostly for edible fruit . The majority of these species are found in nature as wild mangoes .They all belong to the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to south and southeast Asia or from where it has been distributed worldwide to become one of the most cultivated fruits in the tropics .The center of diversity  of the mangifera genus is in India.

While other mangifera species  are also grown one on a more localized basis mangifera  Indica  the common mango or Indian mango is the only mango tree commonly cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.  It originated in Indian subcontinent (India ,Bangladesh ,and Pakistan ) and Burma.

Mangoes are widely used in cuisine sour, unripe mangoes are used in chutneys , athanu ,pickles  side dishes or may be eaten raw with salt , chilli or soya sauce .A summer drink called aam panna comes from mangoes .Mango  pulp made into jelly or cooked with red gram dhal and green chillies may be served with cooked rice . Mango lassi is popular throughout south Asia prepared by mixture ripe mangoes or mango pulp with buttermilk and sugar. Ripe mangoes are also used to make curries . Aamras is a popular thick juice made of mangoes with sugar or milk, and is consumed with chapatis  or poories . The pulp from ripe mangoes is also used to make jam called Mangada . Andhra aavakaaya is a pickle made from raw , unripe, pulpy and sour mango mixed with chilli powder fenugreek seeds ,mustard powder , salt and groundnut oil. Mango is used to make juices , smoothies ,ice cream , fruit bars, raspudos  ,pies and sweet chilli sauce or mixed with chamoy , a sweet and spicy chili paste.

Sugar Apple

Sugar-apple    is   the   fruit   of   Annona   squamosa,   the   most  widely   grown   species   of Annona   and   a   native   of   the   tropical   Americas   and   West  Indies.   The   Spanish  traders   and   others    brought   it   to   Asia   where    its    old   Mexican   name    ate   may  still    be    found    in  Bengali    ata ,    Nepalese    aati ,    Sinhalese    katu    atha,    Burmese  aajaa    thee,    and    atis    in   the    Philippines . It   is   also   known   as   custard   apple  (mainly   Annona    reticulate )   in    the   Philippines

The     fruit    is    round    to    conical,    5–10  cm (2.0–3.9 in)     in    diameter    and    6–10 cm (2.4–3.9 in)  long,    and     weighing   100–240 g (3.5–8.5 oz),   with    a    thick     rind    composed    of   knobby    segments.     The     color    is  typically    pale    green    to    blue-green,    with    a     deep    pink blush    in   certain   varieties,    and    typically    has    a   bloom.   It    is    unique    among    Annona    fruits   in    being    segmented,    and    the  segments    tend    to    separate    when    ripe,    exposing   the   interior.

The    flesh    is    fragrant    and    sweet,    creamy    white    to   light    yellow,   and    resembles  and   tastes    like    custard.   It   is   found    adhering     to  13–16 mm (0.51–0.63 in) long   seeds    to   form   individual   segments    arranged    in   a   single   layer    around    the  conical    core.  It    is    soft,   slightly    grainy,    and    slippery.   The    hard,   shiny    seeds  may    number   20-40   or   more   per   fruit ,    and   have    a    brown    to    black    coat,  although   varieties    exist    that   are    almost   seedless.

There    are    also    new    varieties   being    developed     in    Taiwan . The   atemoya   or "pineapple  sugar-apple",  a    hybrid    between   the    sugar    apple    and    the    cherimoya ,  is    popular    in   Taiwan,    although    it    was    first    developed   in    the    USA    in   1908.  The    fruit   is    similar    in   sweetness    to    the    sugar    apple    but    has   a    very  different    taste.    As    the    name    suggests,    it   tastes    like    pineapple.   The  arrangement    of    seeds    is   in    spaced    rows,    with    the    fruit's   flesh    filling    most   of    the    fruit    and    making    grooves    for     the     seeds,    instead    of    the    flesh   only  occurring    around    the    seeds.  Sugar-apple    is   high     in    energy,      excellent  source  of  vitamin    C  and   manganese,   a   good    source    of    thiamine    and     vitamin  B6,  and  provides    vitamin    B2,  B3 , B5, B9,   iron,   magnesium,    phosphorus  and  potassium  in  fair  quantities.