Saturday, 13 September 2008
was doing project work searching for stuffs related to law forbidding adolescents from undergoing cosmetics surgery when i suddenly decided to know more about potato...lols...ya cosmetic surgery is not related to potato but then i m hungry..hehe...
i found out, The English word potato comes from Spanish patata. Common names for potatos are ground apple, earth pear, earth bean. chinese call it horse-bell yam" (马铃薯, "earth bean" (土豆) and "foreign taro" (洋芋). The Indonesian word is kentang.
The description of potatos
Potato plants grow high to the ground and bear yellow to silver flowers with yellow stamens.
Potatoes are cross-pollinated mostly by bumblebees that carry pollen from other potato plants, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs as well. Any potato variety can also be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers, cut to include at least one or two eyes, or also by cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of healthy seed tubers.
Some commercial potato varieties do not produce seeds at all (they bear imperfect flowers) and are propagated only from tuber pieces. Confusingly, these tubers or tuber pieces are called "seed potatoes".
After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing up to 300 true seeds. By finely chopping the fruit and soaking it in water, the seeds will separate from the flesh by sinking to the bottom after about a day (the remnants of the fruit will float). All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called "true seed" or "botanical seed" to distinguish it from seed tubers. Potato fruit contains large amounts of the toxic alkaloid solanine, and is therefore unsuitable for consumption.
Photos to share with u guys...hehe
I WOULD LOVE TO EAT THIS!!!
potato art...wow!!! i never heard of such tings
roar!!! dont talk to me now...i am angry i cant eat all these FOOD!!!
potato fruit...they look so cute...like berries!!! a pity we cant eat them :(
只、君の笑顔が欲しくて、僕はここにいるんだ。
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