Carnauba Palm

  Carnauba Palm is called the “Tree of Life” in Brazil for its many uses! Native to Brazil, it can grow to over 20 meters or 65 feet in height and is drought resistant. Carnauba wax is a popular car wax that is obtained by drying and beating the leaves to remove the wax. The […]

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Bowthorpe Oak

  The Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne in Lincolnshire, England is believed to be the oldest oak tree at an estimated 1,200 years old. It is also featured in the Guinness Book of Records and was filmed for a short TV documentary about its size – the tree has a girth of 12.30 metres or 40 […]

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Blue Marble by NASA

  Blue Marble by NASA This spectacular “blue marble” image by NASA is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square […]

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Black Marble – Asia and Australia

  Black Marble – Asia and Australia “Night time imagery provides an intuitively graspable view of our planet,” says William Stefanov, a scientist in NASA’s International Space Station program office who has worked with similar images from astronauts. “City lights are an excellent means to track urban and suburban growth, which feeds into planning for […]

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Bitter Orange

  Bitter Orange has been used in Chinese medicine and by natives of the Amazon rainforest to treat nausea and indigestion. It is an ornamental tree whose fruits and leaves are used as soap. Its extract has been marketed as a weight-loss aid and appetite suppressant. In Iran, its juice is popularly used as a […]

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Bears of Kazakh forests

  In these Kazakh forests, bears, being the picky buggers that they are, would only pick and eat the sweetest apples. They would then wander around and when they would poop, the seeds of these sweet, delicious apples would spread around. American researchers have already begun to take 20,000 seedlings from this forest for a […]

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Bael

  Bael or Stone Apple is the Hindu God Shiva’s tree! Maha Shivaratri, the annual festival in reverence of Shiva is mainly celebrated by offering Bael leaves. Bael is regarded as one of the sacred trees of Indian heritage where the fruit is also used in religious rituals. Its fruit can be eaten fresh or […]

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