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unusual facts about lettuce



Bibio marci

Bibio marci larvae are known to be root damage pests of celery, asparagus, roses, saxifrages, lawn grass, lettuce and Polyanthus.

Bill Walczak

Originally from New Jersey, he came to Boston on a Boston University scholarship but dropped out after one semester to work on the lettuce boycott of the United Farm Workers.

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Cultivar

Cultivars generally occur as ornamentals and food crops: Malus 'Granny Smith' and Malus 'Red Delicious' are cultivars of apples propagated by cuttings or grafting, Lactuca 'Red Sails' and Lactuca 'Great Lakes' are lettuce cultivars propagated by seeds.

Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables

In some cases this can actually make the plants immune to attack, as is the case with the lettuces Avoncrisp and Avondefiance which were bred at the Institute of Horticultural Research, Wellesbourne during the 1960s, which are fully resistant to lettuce root aphid (Pemphigus bursarius).

Famoxadone

Famoxadone is a fungicide to protect agricultural products against various fungal diseases on fruiting vegetables, tomatoes, potatoes, curcurbits, lettuce and grapes.

Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs

Kyuzaburo Sakata, a successful local Japanese lettuce grower in Watsonville, announced he would build a Japanese garden to be designed by Nagao Sakurai, of the Imperial Palace, who was involved in the Japanese exhibit at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition at Treasure Island in San Francisco.

Hell Creek Formation

A prehistoric species of water lettuce, previously assigned to the genus Pistia.

Herman Ashworth

For his last meal he ordered two cheeseburgers with lettuce and mayonnaise and French fries with ketchup, and drank one Dr Pepper and one Mountain Dew.

Kari Kennell

Representing PETA, and wearing plastic lettuce-leaf bikinis, Kari Kennell and fellow Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson (Miss July 2002) sold vegetable hot dogs to members of Congress outside the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C.

L. perennis

Lactuca perennis, the blue lettuce or perennial lettuce,a plant species present in most of the Central and Southern Europe

Lobaria oregana

Lobaria oregana, also known as lettuce lichen and as Oregon lungwort, is a species of foliose lichen occurring in North American old-growth forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest in Washington State.

Miang kham

In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, the preparation is very often folded in either cooked cabbage leaves (kaalampii' - a local staple) or lettuce.

Milanesa

In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal.

Romaine lettuce

It apparently reached the West via Rome, as in Italian it is called lattuga romana and in French laitue romaine, both meaning 'Roman lettuce', hence the name 'romaine', the common term in American English.

Scopula cacuminaria

They have been recorded on lettuce, dandelion and Asteraceae species.

Sde Warburg

Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of Aleh Negev was present to accept the donation and commended the residents, who had grown the lettuce and prepared the salad on the moshav.

Signal Hill Transmission

The band was most recently featured in a 2010 episode of Food Network's Giada at Home, entitled "Dinner With the Band", in which Giada De Laurentiis throws the a dinner party, serving bibb lettuce salads, penne with braised short ribs, and apple shandys.

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen - Usada Lettuce, Shinji Kido/Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kai Ozu/Magi Red


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