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unusual facts about Plant sap



Melezitose

Melezitose, also spelled melicitose, is a nonreducing trisaccharide sugar that is produced by many plant sap eating insects, including aphids such as Cinara pilicornis by an enzyme reaction.

Meliae

Many species of Fraxinus, the ash trees, exude a sugary substance, which the ancient Greeks called méli, "honey".


see also

Jenny Hempel

There she studied the pH of plant sap, in particular the diurnal fluctuations in sap acidity in succulent plants first observed by Benjamin Heyne.