If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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Mangoes enhance a marijuana high, allowing users to get ‘higher’ more effectively.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A type of strawberry that almost became extinct is now being sold in Europe. It tastes like pineapple so they call it pineberry.
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Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
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In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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