Nutmeg is a seed found in the fleshy fruit of the nutmeg tree ( " Myristica fragrans " ) and cloves are the unopened flower buds of the clove tree ( " Syzygium aromaticum " ).
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AD 250 to AD 538, and by the end of the period almost all kofun tumuli contained magatama . are magatama with inscriptions that look like flowers of the clove tree and have a hole suitable to attach to a string.
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Other tiers include Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia ( featuring plants such as cuphea, eucalyptus, and ixora ); Indo-Asia ( lemon grass, and cinnamon, turmeric, and clove trees ); Africa ( " Bismarckia nobilis " ); and Central America ( calabash ).
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Pemba is, with the exception of a strip of land along its eastern coast, a very fertile place : besides clove trees, the locals grow mainly rice, coconut, bananas, cassava and red beans ( called " maharagwe " in the Swahili language ).
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Take six giant steps and you're in Indo-Asia _ tufts of lemon grass, pale tubes of the intoxicatingly fragrant 10-cent flowers ( used in making leis ), the big blowsy purple blooms of a Hong Kong orchid tree, and cinnamon, turmeric and clove trees in a thicket flashing with tiny rice birds.
