The flower resembles a shooting star or a firecracker.
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Thanks to Google Lens and my phone camera I have ready help in identifying my garden plants by name. Take a picture, submit it to Google Lens, and the name appears. This is exciting for me, being challenged in both technological and botanical knowledge. Now, it’s fun for me to point out and refer to my starburst, which until recently was just a beautiful two-color bush.
Not until its flowers bloom does the meaning of its name become clear. The flower resembles a shooting star or a firecracker, flinging out radiant beams while sitting stationary on a supportive stem. When the tree is full of shooting stars, first-time spectators are likely to react in the same way they would to the marvel of a shooting star in the heavens.
Learn the secrets of the coconut and try some imaginative recipes.
The Tree of Life
For thousands of years the “tree of life,” the coconut palm, has sustained countless inhabitants of every subtropical coastline around the world. It provides food, drink, building materials, and even fuel, thriving in areas of high salinity where other crops would certainly fail.
The coconut played a crucial role in the history of human exploration and dispersal across the tropics, and it continues to play a fundamental role in human societies today. As a portable source of nutrition and water, the coconut was critical for humans to be able to voyage, establish trade routes, and colonize lands in the Pacific Rim, coastal India, Africa, and South America.
• a period or program of festive activities, cultural events, or entertainment
• gaiety; revelry; merrymaking
Oh, who doesn’t love a festival, a cultural celebration, a public party? In my little corner of the world, we have an annual Apple Squeeze at harvest time. Other places in the United States show their own civic pride in various activities throughout the year.
Most sound fun and entertaining, some may be a bit quirky, and (at least one) simply defies description. Allow me to be your tour guide.
Fun and Entertaining Food Festivals
Banana split
Banana Split Festival: Wilmington, Ohio
Rumor has it that in the winter of 1907, business was rather slow at Hazard’s Restaurant in Wilmington, Ohio. The owner, Ernest Hazard, proposed a contest to concoct a new dish, something so unique that the local college students would be enticed to visit and become new customers.
Kefta mkaouara (Moroccan meatball and egg tagine)
Morocco: Mosaic of Nationalities, Climate, and Cuisine
There is an exotic land a confusion of geography, climate, and nationality. Although geographically situated on the African continent, its ties to Islam link it indirectly to the Middle East. But then Europe enters into the scene. At the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain is a mere nine miles away. Kissed by the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, this is a land of beaches but also a gateway to the Sahara Desert.
This land is Morocco, a beautiful paradise that everyone wanted to claim as their own. There were invaders century upon century of invaders. From present-day Lebanon came the Phoenicians, followed by the Carthaginians of Tunis. Of course, the Romans entered the scene (146 B.C.) and held fast for more than 200 years. Berbers swept in next, removing the last of Roman authority in 429 A.D. Fast-forward little more than 300 years later and the Arabs descended as well, using