Wonders of the Vegetable World

abundant adorn Arab ASTOR attains banana banyan Baobab bark beautiful belong blossoms botanists boughs branches bread-fruit tree called caoutchouc Carrion flowers cedar Cedrus clusters colossal colour crown Crystal Palace curious dark Date palm Doum palm dried drooping Egyptian Egyptian Lotus elastica English hot-houses farinaceous feet high feet in circumference feet in diameter feet in height Ficus flourishes flowers foliage frequently fruit genus giant green ground grove grows hundred immense inches long Indian Indies insects islands juice known leaf leaves Lebanon lotus Malagays mangrove Massaranduba Mauritia flexuosa measures Mimosa Musa native natural order Nelumbo Nepenthes Nepenthes distillatoria noble numerous nuts odour ornament peculiar petioles pitchers plantain poet properties pulp Rafflesia Rafflesia Arnoldi remarkable resembles roots seeds sensitive plant shade shape smooth species spread stalk stem straight Taxodium thick traveller Traveller's Tree tribe tropical trunk twenty Urticacea vegetable world Victoria Regia wonderful wood yields