Tasty rhizomes
Mar 01, 2018
The Educational Unit of the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia proposes cultivating ginger and turmeric using the rhizomes we can find at the market.
Etiqueta: plants
Planting a vegetable garden at home
Dec 30, 2017
If you want to create your own vegetable garden, the Educational Unit of the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia offers some advice on how to start it.
Can plants have cancer?
Nov 21, 2016
The answer to this is yes. Plants can reproduce errors in the growth of some cells, which would cause the formation of cell masses or tumours that could be considered cancers.
Apart from the air carnation, are there any other plants living in such extreme conditions?
Oct 25, 2016
Question asked by MARÍA JOSÉ ESTAY OSSES. We speak with JESÚS RIERA: The answer is yes. The air carnation belongs to the genus Tillandsia. Most plants from this genus can live on top of others without actually touching the ground. This type of plants are called
Re… cycle and reuse to reduce
Jun 13, 2016
We live in a time, culture and civilisation in which recycling is an educational value for our society, a value added for our everyday habits that should be boosted by all educational sectors as a guideline reference for the future. The word recycling means giving a
Discovering All the Shades of Green
Feb 03, 2015
This workshop was developed in order to study autumn, but the striking coloration of this season does not actually appear until early December at the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia.
Edible Childhood Ethnobotany
Mar 07, 2014
[caption id="attachment_14781" align="alignleft" width="200"] Guildhall Art Gallery (Londres)John Everett Millais. The Woodsman's Daughter, 1850-51. Oil on canvas, 64,7 x 88,9 cm. The author describes a countryside scene with a boy offering strawberries, possibly wild.[/caption] The abandonment of rural areas and the interruption of intergenerational oral transmission have created
Nativity Set Anachronisms
Dec 17, 2012
Christmas time is here and traditional nativity sets can be found all over town. Traditional Spanish nativity sets show scenes set in Roman Egypt or Palestine, and people, animals, buildings and plants are included in these sets. One
Is there anybody who never cried while chopping onions?
Jan 11, 2012
Onions are essential elements to be found in our vegetable gardens. Although it makes you cry when chopping it in the kitchen, it is highly consumed in the region of Valencia either fresh and raw, deep or shallow fried, boiled, grilled or in brine. It can also be stored to be eaten all along the year
A Mythical Flower
Jan 11, 2012
Rare and funny, Lady’s slipper (or Cuckoo’s slipper) is good at playing hide and seek. From the eighteenth century it appeared in botanical publications to then vanish into a long silence denying its existence in the Pyrenees.
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