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In bengali we call this plant “Kocha-er gachh” (gachh= plant). So the flower would be call “Kocha-er phool” (phool= flower). Taken at my Sona mami’s house. This plant are found in wild - people also use is to fence their boundary. Seems like an exotic red flower.
We found these at the market - a fantastic mix of oyster mushrooms, shitaake and beech mushrooms.
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And this ain't no cherry tomato either. Who needs thousand pound melons when you have pea sized tomatoes.
By the way we did cut it up and each have a piece and it was yummy.
Thematic routes, artistic, botanical, landscape, the exotic garden offers a range of attractions to discover plants, history and traditions of Eze ... A Garden to live. Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence 2014.
The castle ruins
The ruins atop the Garden remind us that the history of the Castle is closely linked to that of the village. Coveted, people follow one another since the Iron Age. Its history can be summarized in a few steps. From the Iron Age to 220 BC. BC, the local people are home on the rock of Eze. Some fragments of Cyclopean walls in high unit in the village bear witness to this early occupation. Ezasques built their houses in this fortress away from the driveway. The castle was built in the second half of the twelfth century by the family of Eze. To keep the Counts of Provence then the Dukes of Savoy were based on experience and valiant officers called the "Castellans".
Cacti
The Garden's collections allow to become familiar with the diversity of the world of cacti. Echinocactus grusonii is probably one of the most known to the public because of its globular shape thorny that earned him the nickname "mother-in pillow". The other familiar genre of visitors is the Opuntia and in particular O. ficus indica more often called "prickly pear". Under the name of "nopal" the Precolumbians regrouped many Opuntia visible to rackets in the garden: O. microdasys, O. bergeriana ... They took the pulp snowshoes previously stripped of their thorns he mixed with honey to make skin creams.
Alongside growing columnar species such Neobuxmaunia polylopha Trichocereus pasacana recognizable by their large flower pure white. Cephalocereus senilis, "old head candle"