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What looks like a plum and tastes a little like an apricot?
You guessed it, it’s the newest hybrid phenomena, the Pluot!

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Also called papaw and a half-dozen other names, this native fruit, known as the "poor man’s banana" grows mostly in the eastern United States and produces the largest indigenous fruit on the continent.

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Opponents of airfreight foodstuffs in favour of locally grown wish to constrain choice for enjoyment of exotic delicacies, a feat they might cede in the West where banana is exotic. But can they truly survive without this curvy-elongate delicacy that is also reputed to determine the sex of an offspring? Wonders Ayub Chege in this revisit to the plant kingdom.

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Some of the deadliest spiders found throughout the world.

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What color is your banana? Bananas come in yellow, green, black, red and furry pink.

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This is an experiment testing how high amounts of ethylene gas affects the ripening of bananas.