Wildflowers of Israel

 

Here's an interesting article about origin of many seeds we grow in
So. Calif:
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Wildflowers of Israel

by Leslie Berliant, Contributing Writer

Lupinus Mountain Blue. Below: Ammi Visnaga. Photos courtesy SeedCount

Enter any Trader Joe’s grocery store in Southern California and you
are likely to find vibrant sunflowers with golden orange leaves and a
dark center among the bouquets and potted plants. What many customers
might not realize is that the sunflower being sold is called Jerusalem
Gold, which is grown in Santa Barbara from a seed native to Israel.

Many of the cucumbers, bell peppers, basil and tomatoes grown in
Southern California also come from Israeli seeds. Even some vegetables
and herbs imported from places like Mexico come from seeds that
originate in Israel.

Israeli agriculture has had a big impact around the world, even if few
people know about it. And that is true in Southern California, too,
where a Mediterranean climate provides ideal conditions for flora from
the Jewish state.

(rest of article with pictures at <http://www.jewishjournal.com/
mount_sinai/article)/wildflowers_of_israel_20100324>

Hypatia

 

In article


Otherwise known as "Occupied Palestine".
<http://www.haaretz.com/>


- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

 

Billy wrote:

Billy give it a rest please.  There are plenty of places you can go to have
this fight (sorry I meant dialogue) but how about making this not one of
them.

David

 



I understand, genocide is a tasteless subject.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

 

Higgs Boson wrote:

Is it native to Israel?  I mean in the sense that its first know cultivation
was in Israel from wild stock. I don't know.


This is misleading as it allows one to think that these plants originated in
Israel.  Now Iraelis may be responsible for some fine cultivars (such as the
Ha Ogen (sp?) melon) but tomatoes and peppers originated in the New World.

David