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Strongylodon macrobotrys, commonly known as jade vine, emerald vine or turquoise jade vine

Grădina Botanică Regală înfiinţată în 1371 poate arăta vizitatorilor săi sau botaniştilor din lumea mare lucruri interesante despre arborii săi seculari şi plantele sale rare, o minune a istoriei ţării concentrată între zidurile sale de verdeaţă

Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens, the finest of its kind in Asia, the largest of the botanical gardens of Sri Lanka, couldn't be better located. In the Mediterranean climate of Kandy, the gateway to the Central Highlands, the Gardens, at an elevation of 500 meters above sea-level, were tightly bounded on three sides by a loop of River Mahaweli (Great sandy river), the largest river of Sri Lanka.The town of Peradeniya is located at a distance of 110km from Colombo and another 6km over the Peradeniya Birdge and you are at Kandy, home to the sacred Temple of Tooth.

Peste 2 milioane vizitatori anualCopaci seculari sau foarte rariPeste 4000 de specii de plante

Chiar lângă intrare se află Grădina Mirodeniilor. Cu multă vreme înainte să fie renumită pentru ceai, Sri Lanka era vestită pentru condimentele sale, în special scorţişoara (care a dat şi numele unui frumos cartier din Colombo: Grădina de scorţişoară)

The spice garden to the right of entrance is replete with exotic spices. Cardamom, Coves, Pepper & Vanilla.

Nucşoara, una dintre cele mai scumpe mirodenii, este o sămânţă mare ca o nucă, rotundă, utilizată drept condiment. Arborele de nucşoară (Myristica fragrans), originar din sud-estul Asiei, are un fruct ca o piersică. Există şi Nucşoara de Jamaica (Monodora Myristica) al cărei fruct este o drupă de mărimea unei portocale

The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. The most important commercial species is Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands) of Indonesia. The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit: nutmeg and mace.

La întoarcerea din Orient Marco Polo a făcut escală în Java şi apoi în Ceylon, ale cărei bogăţii le descrie în Cartea Minunilor: piper, nucşoară, nard (o plantă asemănătoare valerianei), galanga (un rizom cu gust picant din familia ghimbirului), cubebe (variantă de piper cu utilizare medicinală) şi cuişoare.

No one knew where the spices came from. Marco Polo, the Venetian, returned from his travels between 1271 and 1295 in China and claimed he saw a nutmeg tree in China, but that cannot have been true. It may be true that Marco Polo gave Java its name. He thought that Java and Australia were connected and called them Java Major and Java Minor. These names appear for the first time on a map made by Francesco Rossellini between 1492 and 1493, but this time Java Major refers to Java and Java Minor to Sumatra.

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus şi Artocarpus champeden) originar din Asia de Sud-est (fructul naţional în Bangladesh) este unul dintre cei trei copaci de bun augur pentru tamili (ca şi bananierul sau mango)

The Jackfruit is one of the three auspicious fruits of Tamil Nadu, along with the mango and banana known as the mukkani. It is also the national fruit of Bangladesh

În Sri Lanka se numeşte Kos sau Hera-li, legat de legenda unei femei care a preparat prima dată curry pentru zeul care a venit să le arate oamenilor valoarea lui nutritivă

Sri Lanka has a tradition of using it not only as a vegetable, but as staple, in place of rice. The Sinhala name for the jackfruit tree – Baat Gasa – means ‘tree of rice'. Sri Lanka stands first in the world in consuming jackfruit as a vegetable. According to Dr Heenkenda, the country consumes about 25 to 30 per cent of its tender jackfruits as vegetable. This is a very positive step towards local food security. Probably no other country in the world matches this.

Lemnul este foarte apreciat pentru mobilă, rumeguşul inimii copacului se foloseşte ca şi colorant (pentru hainele călugărilor) iar cu latexul secretat se astupă găurile mici ale vaselor

The wood of the tree is used for the production of musical instruments.Jackfruit wood is widely used in the manufacture of furniture, doors and windows, and in roof construction. The heartwood is used by Buddhist forest monastics in Southeast Asia as a dye, giving the robes of the monks in those traditions their distinctive light-brown color

Cercetările arheologice au demonstrat că fructul era cultivat în India de peste 4000 de ani

The jackfruit has played a significant role in Indian agriculture for centuries. Archeological findings in India have revealed that jackfruit was cultivated in India 3000 to 6000 years ago

Artocarpus nobilis este Arborele de pâine sălbatic, specie endemică în Sri Lanka

Durian este un fruct foarte răspândit în sudul Asiei, care arată ca un arici verde şi are un miros specific foarte puternicIn Sri Lanka there are more than 05 different varieties of Durians could be found. Some Durian varieties are very tasty and the pulp is creamy and similar to butter fruit.

Cuişoarele sunt un condiment obţinut din mugurii floriferi ai unui arbore exotic (Caryophyllus aromaticus, Eugenia caryophyllata sau Syzygium aromaticum) din familia mirtaceelor, care mai include printre altele mirtul şi eucaliptul.Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. Cloves are native to the Maluku islands in Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisines all over the world. Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. They have a numbing effect on mouth tissues.

Camforul natural utilizat de secole în medicina asiatică se obţine din lemnul şi coaja copacului Cinnamomum camphora

Camphor is a waxy, flammable, white or transparent solid with a strong aromatic odor. It is a terpenoid found in wood of the camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), a large evergreen tree found in Asia

Copacul de scorţişoară (kurundu în singhaleză) este o plantă veşnic verde, aparţinând familiei Lauraceae, originară din Sri Lanka

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods. While Cinnamomum verum is sometimes considered to be "true cinnamon", most cinnamon in international commerce is derived from related species, which are also referred to as "cassia" to distinguish them from "true cinnamon"

Arabi, Portughezi, Indieni, Chinezi, Olandezi şi Englezi, toţi au încercat să controleze drumul mirodeniilor pentru a-şi putea asuma monopolul comerţului cu aceste comori

Grădina de mirodenii te ajută să descoperi cultura aromatelor, savoarea lor, dar şi toate binefacerile care ţi le pot procura.

Sita Asoca (Saraca india) copacul sub care s-a născut Buddha

The ashoka tree is considered sacred throughout the Indian subcontinent, especially in India and Sri Lanka. This tree has many folklorical, religious and literary associations in the region.

Fond muzical: Amal Perera-Suranganawak Hemin Awilla

Sri Lanka

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