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The Fabaceae Family
Plants in the Fabaceae Family are Flowers with a typical Structure, that resembles a Boat.
The are classified as Sail (the prominent,bottom petal),Oars (the two petals on the right
and left sides) and the Boat (the hermetic , bottom part of the plant). this structure of flowers exists only in this Family and not in any other.
The Fabaceae Family belongs to the Legumes Series,that is known by every man. The Legumes are an essential part of human nutrition. The Legumes constitute proteinaceous,nutrient completion for the starch containing cereals.
In Ancient Culture there was a lack of meat in the menu and the legumes and cereal duo
enabled full nutrition in many areas throughout the globe. in east asia it was rice and soy;
in north america it was corn and beans. in south america it was corn and peanuts (which are legumes too); in africa - sorghum is the traditional cereal and lubia beans are the traditional legumes that completes it.
In West Asia, in europe and our area, the middle east area, people got their nutrition from
wheat and barley for generations accompanied ofcourse with legumes like peas,humus and lentil. all of which were cultivated ten years ago in our areas. the broad beans , which constitutes an important ingridient of the middle eastern menu , was cultivated some time after that.
The Fabaceae Family is relativley a Large Family, it consists of 500 types and over 10,000 Species. This Family is Common in Temprate Areas,Tropical and Subtropical terrains in all continents. The Caesalpiniaceae and Mimosaceae families which are somewhat similiar and precede the fabaceae family, were made more than a hundred million years ago. back when south america,africa and australia were connected as One Continent – Gondwana. This explains the distribution of legumes to all parts of the world.
In this family, there are leafy plants , many of which color the fields in springtime like lupine
for example. also common in this family are bushes,trees and climbers.
the increase in shapes and forms is associated with the vast distribution in diffrent climate areas. however,the identifiers of the family species repeat themselves, the shape of the flower and petals are quite cohesive in all family types and enable quick indentification.
Leaves – mostly divided in diffrent shapes. the fruit is a jacket , but in many types and species
there are shapes of fruit that are a product of the jacket’s shape. these variations in leaf shape
and fruit are mostly the identifiers that enable distinguishing amongst species and types.
why is this family so important for agriculture the roots of plants from this family maintain symbiosis (sharing life) with nitrogen binding germs, known as rizovium. the germs create glomerule in diffrent shapes on the root (the shapes are typical for the diffrent types of plants).
the glomerule may be seen in every tiny plant you pull whole from the ground. the glomerule are the small lumps on the root. the germs penetrate the shell which is rich with food accumulating cells, they receive food surplus from photosynthesis and the plant gets nitrogen that rizovium binds on top of it from the air. this fact is what brought the family’s distribution to many nurseries in nature.
the surplus nitrogen which comes from the rizovium enables growth in none fertile soils, however, the high rate of nitrogen attracts plant eaters, this fact has brought to the creation of diffrent counter materials in plants, that use partially as healing plants for man (“fenugreek”, for example, contains counter materials which man uses for his benefit).
the high protein percentage in the diffrent parts of the plant has brought swift cultivation of
these plants to use as green garbage, which enriches the agricultural soil in the seed cycle method. after the cultivation season, the plants are trimmed and mixed with local soil. the seeds and jackets have high quantities of protein, and thus they are a highly valuable basic food.
Germination and how to get the maximum from your seeds the seeds of the fabaceae family in nature have a thick shell, this enables distrbuting germination throughout diffrent years, this serves for preventing the species extinction. the thicker the shell is, the harder is it is for water to penetrate into the seed , and the germination is postponed.
In cultivation – enhancement has brought an increase in the thin shelled seeds, that germinate quickly. with time, man developed a system for cohesive germniation of legumes, the most important system in modern agriculture.
the thickness of the shells is the reason humus seeds and others from the wild germinate in small quantities. you can,with tools present in every home, increase germination by soaking the seeds for 24 hours and water that had been boiled and cooled back down a little.
Bolusanthus speciosus, an african tree from the fabaceae family, a plant with very impressive bloom. from nature studies we remember that classification of the diffrent parts of the flower as boat parts; the flower to a sail (the top and most prominent petal) , oars (the two side petals) and boat (the bottom , hermetical part of the flower which is composed of the conjoined petals.
this structure exists only in the fabaceae and in any other family.
By Dabo , A UK Flowers Maniac.
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