Scientific name: adansonia gregorii
Scientific name: Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis
Bok choi, also called pak choi, is a type of leafy vegetable. It looks like a small cabbage with crunchy white stems and dark green leaves.
People often eat it cooked, such as in stir fry, soup, or steamed dishes.
Bis forBottlebrush
Scientific name: family: callistemon
Bottlebrush are a kind of evergreen flowering shrub found mainly in Australia. They have very distinctive flowers that grow in clusters and are mostly stamens with petals so small you can barely see them. There are a lot of different varieties of bottlebrush, each growing to a different size and shape and needing slightly different conditions to grow.
Some bottlebrush species are also found in New Caledonia.
Bis forBougainvillea
Scientific name: bougainvillea spectabilis
Bougainvilleas are woody, climbing vines covered in thorns. They have spectacular flowers in shades of purple. Bougainvilleas are native to South America. They do not tolerate frost.
What looks like their flowers are not actually flowers, but colored leaves, with the true flower being the small structure in the center.
Bis forBrazil nut
Scientific name: bertholletia excelsa
Brazil nuts are the seeds of a tree from South America. The Brazil nut tree is a very large tree, and the nuts only grow when the tree is in an undisturbed forest. The insects that pollinate the Brazil nut flowers are only found near a particular kind of orchid.
The Brazil nuts themselves grow inside a large fruit the size of a coconut, with the nuts in shells like in the picture arranged like the segments of an orange.
Scientific name: brassica oleracea
Bis forBroccolini
Broccolini is a type of vegetable that looks like small broccoli with long, thin stems. It has green florets, and it tastes a little like broccoli, but often milder. You can steam, roast, or stir fry broccolini.