From leaves to flowers Fossilized flowers use fibrous leaves such as guyabano, guava, avocado and alugbati (Basella alba) leaves to form each petal. These are all abundant in Quirino province.

Malabar spinach (Basella alba) starts a little slowly but can easily ... sending out little white or purple flowers and dark purple berries at the end of summer. (These berries will stain, so ...

Trellising these charming flowers directs growth in the right ... making pods easy to pick," says Singh. Malabar spinach (Basella alba) is a vining, heat-tolerant leafy green that will thrive ...

There are two common species — the red-stemmed Basella rubra and the green-stemmed Basella alba. In taste, they are indistinguishable. Basella is a perennial, fast-growing, soft-stemmed vine.

Fruits from the Basella alba L. plant could provide the food industry with a new source of natural red pigments, according to new research. The study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food ...