falafel: a Middle Eastern dish of spiced mashed chickpeas formed into balls or fritters and deep-fried, usually eaten with or in pitta bread
pitta bread: flat, hollow bread baked from wheat flour
chickpea: a hard, round yellow/brown seed which is soaked o/night then boiled until soft before eating
tahini: a Middle Eastern paste or spread made from ground sesame seeds
sesame seed: one of the oldest oilseed crops known, domesticated well over 3,000 years ago
tabbouleh: an Arab salad of cracked wheat mixed with finely chopped ingredients such as tomatoes, onions and parsley
cracked wheat: grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces
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cycad: a palmlike plant of tropical and subtropical regions, bearing large male or female cones. Cycads were abundant during the Triassic and Jurassic eras in the age of the dinosaurs, but recent research
has found that the cycad species growing today formed more recently, around 10 million years ago... pictured is australia's female lepidozamia
frangipani: a genus of tropical shrubs or small trees, also called Plumeria, famous for their intensely fragrant, showy flowers which range from white and yellow to pink and red. Native to tropical America, they are popular ornamental plants in warm climates, often used in perfumes, leis and associated with immortality and beauty in many cultures..
pictured is the cultivar 'Heidi'
bottle tree
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