A tale of absent flowers and naked seeds
Empeng, a popular fried snack with a distinctive bitter taste, is made from the rolled, flattened nuts of the belinjau or melinjau tree (Gnetum gnemon.). These plants look just like other trees, with woody trunks, and branches and twigs bearing green leaves. But this is where the similarities cease...
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my.upm.eprints.198772014-10-25T04:10:22Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19877/ A tale of absent flowers and naked seeds Jutta, Mariam Habau, Mohd Hazwan Empeng, a popular fried snack with a distinctive bitter taste, is made from the rolled, flattened nuts of the belinjau or melinjau tree (Gnetum gnemon.). These plants look just like other trees, with woody trunks, and branches and twigs bearing green leaves. But this is where the similarities cease - belinjau trees do not have flowers and thus do not form their fruits from flowers. What then, if not a flower, comes before the fruit? Instead of flowers they produce male and female reproductive structures in strobili or cones, a feature they share with conifers, cycads, gingkos and the curious Welwitschia. University Putra Malaysia 2012 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19877/1/3_-_CHAPTER_3-2.pdf Jutta, Mariam and Habau, Mohd Hazwan (2012) A tale of absent flowers and naked seeds. In: Nature's Yield and Wonders of Art (NYAWA)12: Fruits. University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, pp. 24-25. ISBN 9789673442980 English |
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Empeng, a popular fried snack with a distinctive bitter taste, is made from the rolled, flattened nuts of the belinjau or melinjau tree (Gnetum gnemon.). These plants look just like other trees, with woody trunks, and branches and twigs bearing green leaves. But this is where the similarities cease - belinjau trees do not have flowers and thus do not form their fruits from flowers. What then, if not a flower, comes before the fruit? Instead of flowers
they produce male and female reproductive structures in strobili or cones, a feature they share with conifers, cycads, gingkos and the curious Welwitschia. |
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