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		<title>Mystery potions: Angel&#8217;s trumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angel's trumpets are found naturalised across the world, and their trumpet flowers exude a beautiful and narcotic scent, particularly at night.]]></description>
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		<title>Daily encounter: Houseplants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many houseplants grown in the UK originate in tropical rainforests where the average growing temperature is similar (from 18°C). The big difference is the size each group of plants grows.]]></description>
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		<title>Rainforest berries: Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first coffee was drunk over a thousand years ago by Arab traders. According to legend, it was discovered by an Ethiopian shepherd who saw his goats were unusually frisky after eating the caffeine-rich coffee berries.]]></description>
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		<title>The high life: Epiphytes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphytes grow upon or attached to a living plant, often high up in rainforest trees where there is more light compared with lower levels. Epiphytes use the host plant for support, but produce their own energy from photosynthesis and obtain moisture and nutrients from the air.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the family: Aroids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Living Rainforest has an amazing collection of rare and unusual aroids (Araceae family). The collection was donated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew several years ago and since expanded to include hundreds of plants with extraordinary diversity.]]></description>
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		<title>Big business: Banana</title>
		<link>http://www.livingrainforest.org/about-rainforests/big-business-banana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bananas are the fourth largest crop in the world after rice, wheat, and maize. The yellow desert banana is a major export for tropical countries and one of the best selling food products in the UK.]]></description>
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		<title>Super-sized: Giant taro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This extraordinary plant is a staple food for over three hundred million people worldwide. Just like our potato, the corm (a swollen stem) is peeled and boiled, and eaten as an important source of carbohydrate.]]></description>
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		<title>Record breaking: Giant Amazon water lily</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Giant Amazon Water Lily was discovered growing in the River Amazon in 1801, and first grown in Europe in the mid 19th Century.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet cure: Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://www.livingrainforest.org/about-rainforests/sweet-cure-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While still best loved as a sweet confectionary, humans first used chocolate thousands of years ago as a medicine. Anxiety, fever, and fatigue were all treated by chocolate-sweetened remedies made by the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec civilisations.]]></description>
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		<title>Regional medicine: Trumpet tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trumpet tree or embauba is widely used in traditional medicine throughout Central and South America. Virtually every part is used - bark, roots, sap, leaves and fruit - to treat a diversity of ailments. Each country has different uses for extracts of this plant, such as treatment for bronchitis and snakebites in Trinidad and a cure for diabetes and hypertension in Guatemala.]]></description>
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