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  • Garlic Cream Bucatini with Peas and Asparagus

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    Author :

    Dustin Warren

  • Calycopteris floribunda

    Calycopteris floribunda Lam. (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesSankrit: Shwetadataki.Kannada: Anjeeru, Marasuthu balli.Tamil: Minnargodi.Telugu: Advijama. Description: Straggling shrubs; young parts pubescent. Leaves opposite, elliptic- oblong or ovate-elliptic, 4.5 – 10 x 2.5 cm, rounded at base, acute to acuminate at apex, , silky pubescent above when young, fulvous tomentose beneath with numerous pellucid glands. Flowers in dense panicles…

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    qswjv

  • Cassia fistula L.

    Cassia fistula L. (CAESALPINIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kakke gida.Tulu: Konde mara.Malayalam: Konna.Tamil: Konnei.Telugu: Rola.English: Indian Laburnum. Description: Compact deciduous trees reaching heights of up to 8 meters; the bark is initially smooth and pale grey, later becoming rough and dark brown as they mature. Leaves paripinnately compound, 30-40 cm long; leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate, 8-14 x…

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    qswjv

  • Casearia championii Thwaites

    Casearia championii Thwaites (FLACOURTIACEAE)  Common namesMalayalam: Vella-kunnan Description: Shrubs or small trees, up to 4 m tall; bark greyish, smooth. Leaves elliptic – oblong or lanceolate, 5-16 x 3-8 cm, attenuate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, the acumen often twisted crenato-repand to subentire, glabrous, green and glossy when mature; secondary veins 6-8 pairs; petioles 4-7…

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    qswjv

  • Carallia brachiata (Lour.) Merr.

    Carallia brachiata (Lour.) Merr. (RHIZOPHORACEAE) Common namesKannada: Andipunaru.Tulu: Andipunaru. Description: Trees, up to 20 m tall with creamy rough bark. Leaves opposite, elliptic-obovate, up to 12 x 8 cm, acute at base, obtuse or shortly acuminate at apex; stipules large, caducous. Flowers small, sessile, in small heads on axillary trichotomous cymes, up to 0.35 mm…

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    qswjv

  • Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taubert

    Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taubert (PAPILIONACEAE) Common namesKannada: Muthugada mara, Paalasha.Malayalam: Palasin panatha.Tamil: Porasu.Telugu: Modugu.English: Flame of the forest. Description: Deciduous trees, 15-20 m tall with rough ash-coloured bark; young parts tomentose or downy. Leaves 3-foliolate; rachis 15-20 cm; petioles 10-15 cm long; leaflets rhomboid or broadly ovate, obtuse or retuse, terminal larger 10-20 x 10-20…

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    qswjv

  • Breynia vitisidaea (Burm. f. ) C. Fischer

    Breynia vitisidaea (Burm. f. ) C. Fischer (EUPHORBHIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kaadu nugge.Tulu: Palli soppu. Description: Small glabrous monoecious shrubs; branches distichous, horizontal. Leaves alternate, elliptic to broadly ovate, 3-5 x 1.5 – 2.5 cm, rounded or sub-acute at base, obtuse or sub-acute at apex, pale beneath, drying black; petiole up to 3-5 mm; stipules minute.…

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    qswjv

  • Bridelia scandens (Roxb.) Willd.

    Bridelia scandens (Roxb.) Willd. (EUPHORBIACEAE) Description: Larger scandent shrubs; stem thorny, shoots brown pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong or obovate, 4.5 – 9 x 2.5 x 4.2 cm, rounded or subcordate at base, obtuse at apex, entire or undulate, fulvous-pubescent beneath; nerves 8-10 pairs. The flowers are arranged in an inflorescence of interrupted pseudospikes with leaves…

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    qswjv

  • Bridelia retusa (L.) Sprengel

    Bridelia retusa (L.) Sprengel (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesSanskrit: Mahavira.Kannada: Asana, Gurige, Komanji.Tamil: Mullu vengai.Malayalam: Mukkayini.Telugu: Bouthayepi, Dudhi-maddi, Kora maddi. Description: Small trees, up to 12 m tall; stem with strong conical spines. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, up to 14 x 7 cm, obtuse at base, retuse at apex, brown pubescent beneath; with many parallel lateral and cross…

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    qswjv

  • Bombax ceiba 

    Bombax ceiba L. (BOMBACACEAE) Common namesSanskrit: Salmali.Booruga: Booruga.Tulu: Booruga.Tamil: Pula-maram, Ilava.Malayalam: Mullu buragamara, Mocha, Elevam, Poola.Telugu: Pula, Salmali, Mundla buraga. Description: Trees that shed their leaves, reaching heights of up to 40 meters, typically possessing buttresses; their bark is grayish and adorned with prickles. Leaves palmately compound; petioles 12-25 cm long; leaflets 5-7, lanceolate to…

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    qswjv