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  Star Apple
The star apple tree is erect, 25 to 100 ft (8-30 m) tall, with a short trunk to 3 ft (1 m) thick, and a dense, broad crown, brown-hairy branchlets, and white, gummy latex.
In Haiti, the star apple was the favorite fruit of King Christophe and he held court under the shade of a very large specimen at Milot.
Star apples are generally in season from late winter or early spring to early summer.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/star_apple.html   (1646 words)

  
 Star Apple
The star apple usually comes in two forms, either the dark purple skinned variety with red-purple pulp, or the green skinned variety with clear-white pulp.
The star apple is a very popular fruit in many tropical parts of the world.
Star apples are tropical, and will not survive more than a couple of degrees of frost.
www.tradewindsfruit.com /star_apple.htm   (192 words)

  
 Star Apple - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Star Apple, tropical American tree, member of the sapodilla family.
The star apple is widely cultivated in warm regions, both ornamentally and for...
Of all the stars in the universe, our Sun is the nearest to Earth and the most extensively...
encarta.msn.com /Star_Apple.html   (169 words)

  
 Razzle Dazzle — Tropical Fruit
Star apple (caimito) is a favorite in the Caribbean and central America, where it originated, as well as in southeast asia.
The star apple is a round, baseball sized fruit that has a star-shaped core that becomes visible when the fruit is cut through its width.
The star apple fruit usually comes in two forms, either the dark purple skinned variety with a red and purple pulp, or the green skinned variety with a clear white pulp.
gotouring.com /razzledazzle/fruit/starapple.html   (193 words)

  
 All About Tropical Plant Star Apple - Chrysophyllum cainito L.
Star Apple Wood: The tree is seldom felled for timber unless there is a particular need for it.
It was formerly proposed as a substitute for wax on the shelves of wardrobes and closets.
Star Apple Medicinal Uses: The ripe fruit, because of its mucilaginous character, is eaten to sooth inflammation in laryngitis and pneumonia.
www.destinationtropicals.com /tropical_plants/plant_55.asp   (1673 words)

  
 CHRYSOPHYLLUM CAINITO L. - STAR APPLE.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Star apple, golden leaf tree, cainito, achras caimito, abiaba, pomme de lait, estrella, sterappel, aguay.
Star apple is a beautiful tropical tree, growing rapidly up to 75 feet or more in height.
Star apple seeds are used in Venezuela as a diuretic and febrifuge.
www.tropilab.com /chrysop-cai.html   (247 words)

  
 Apple - IT Pro
By investing in an Apple Xsan system, award-winning ad agency JWT has created new and flexible ways for all their people to work together.
Apple has augmented its commitment to security by becoming Common Criteria certified for both Mac OS X 10.3.6 and Mac OS X Server 10.3.6.
Apple is working to ensure that your Mac is safe and secure by implementing a security strategy that is central to Mac OS X. How to Buy
www.apple.com /itpro   (825 words)

  
 Star Apple   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The star apple is a tropical fruit cultivated long before the arrival of the Europeans to the West Indies and Central America.
The star apple is cultivated as far south as Peru and as far north as Florida, but attempts to grow it in Asia have had limited success.
The star apple is no relation to the star fruit or carambola; but it is related to the sapodilla, and can be used in the same manner.
www.innvista.com /health/foods/fruits/starappl.htm   (210 words)

  
 STAR ORCHARD :: Apple Facts.
Apples ripen 6-10 times faster at room temperature than if refrigerated, 34 to 40 degrees if possible.
If you are storing a small amount of apples in a refrigerator, use a sealed plastic bag so the apples cannot absorb odors from the other foods.
One pound of apples consist generally of: 5 small apples, 4 medium apples, or 2-3 large apples.
my.vbe.com /~staror/applefacts.htm   (194 words)

  
 Fiona Apple - A Star In Her Prime Hitting The Stage
Apple created quite a stir during her acceptance speech by ripping the image-conscious entertainment industry and urging young women to be comfortable with themselves.
Apple’s live shows are known not only for their musical and acoustic quality, but also for the intimacy that Apple creates even with large audiences.
Apple is truly a unique character in any sense, and her attitude and strongly-held beliefs are a breath of fresh air from the mainstream, mass-marketed world of music.
www.articledashboard.com /Article/Fiona-Apple---A-Star-In-Her-Prime-Hitting-The-Stage/58239   (822 words)

  
 5ADay: Fruit & Vegetable of the Month: Star Fruit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The star fruit or carambola is a tropical fruit that is gaining popularity in the United States.
Star fruits are an excellent source of vitamin C, is low fat, and naturally sodium and cholesterol free.
Star fruits are great to eat out of hand as these tropical delights do not need to be peeled or seeded before eating.
www.5aday.gov /month/star_fruit.html   (652 words)

  
 star apple definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
star apple definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
fruit of star apple tree: an apple-shaped fruit with a smooth greenish purple skin and a star-shaped arrangement of seeds inside
tropical American evergreen tree: an evergreen tree that produces star apples.
ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861714565/star_apple.html   (96 words)

  
 apples
The kids then glue the 10 apples in number order 1-10 on top of their head/face that they drew at the bottom of the page.
Apple wedges (skin may be left on or taken off) 1-2 wedges for each student.
Let student dip apple wedges in the caramel or drizzle the caramel on top of the apple wedges using a wooden spoon.
www.kinderthemes.com /apples.html   (1607 words)

  
 Hawaiian Fruit - Star Apple
The Star Apple tree is a large and striking tree.
There are two species of Star Apple, one producing a fruit with a deep purple skin, the other a fruit with a light green skin.
Star Apple gets its name from the star pattern that can be seen by slicing through the fruit horizontally.
www.instanthawaii.com /cgi-bin/hawaii?Plants.capple   (374 words)

  
 Star Micronics Press Releases - Star Apple MAC Drivers
Unique to Star, AutoLogo enables the instigation and cessation of up to 15 different promotions at any one time, allowing retailers to instantly develop POS marketing initiatives to respond to external market forces, customer buying trends or evolving stock movements.
Founded in 1947, Star Micronics is one of the world's largest printer manufacturers and has facilities for worldwide production, marketing and support.
Star's proven technology is also being utilised to develop reader/writer systems for visual/smart and magnetic stripe cards and to install print mechanisms in multimedia kiosk environments.
www.starmicronics.co.uk /uk/marketing/pr/apple.htm   (398 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Apple Imports Hurting Growers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The American apple industry was disappointed by the federal government’s handling of its recent case against Chinese apple juice concentrate producers.
Glaize, a past chairman of the U.S. Apple Association, said in an interview Friday that local apple growers should be thankful that Wolf is taking up their cause against the Chinese apple growers.
In his testimony, Glaize explained that Apples are grown commercially in 36 states, with the majority of the crop produced in Washington, Virginia, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and California.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030524/Business_apple.asp   (263 words)

  
 The Anniston Star - ‘Apple vs. PC’ brings out feistiness between the camps
With Apple owning only about 6 percent of the world market, the tiny minority of Mac-siders can be extremely defensive.
I really got a kick out of the new iMac, and now there is a tiny remote control with the size and look of Apple’s new iPod Nano that permits a user to sit back and do the audio/visual stuff from the couch instead of a desk chair.
Apple’s Safari Web browser is more attractive than Microsoft’s, but the plumbing behind the walls works all but identically.
www.annistonstar.com /technology/2005/as-computers-1126-0-5k25t4859.htm   (495 words)

  
 Star Fruit, Carambola - star fruit facts - Food Reference
Star fruit originated in Southeast Asia and is readily available in Taiwan.
Star fruit causes several symptoms in patients with chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease.
Star fruit intoxication is a neglected but serious fruit intoxication frequently observed in patients with chronic renal failure.
www.foodreference.com /html/art-star-fruit.html   (606 words)

  
 Luxury Jamaica Villas by Linda Smith - Star Apple House
Star Apple House sits on a beautiful and dramatic site on Jamaica's north coast overlooking the deep blue Caribbean.
The beauty of the site is stunning from the moment you enter the private lane that winds 3/4 of a mile up the hillside through manicured acres of brilliant hibiscus, palm, avocado, grapefruit, lime, orange and mango groves to Star Apple's circular entrance.
Perched on a hillside overlooking Montego Bay and the Caribbean Sea, Star Apple enjoys the special amenity of membership at Round Hill, a chic hotel and beach club just four minutes' drive down the coast and one of the finest private resorts on Jamaica's North Coast.
www.jamaicavillas.com /starapple.html   (641 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Apple to release its first laptop using Intel chip
Apple, which is in the midst of a historic shift to Intel chips, introduced last month its first Intel-based desktop computer, the iMac G5, about six months ahead of schedule.
Analysts expect the new Intel-based Macintosh products to boost Apple’s perennially small share in the United States PC market, which increased slightly last year to more than four percent due in part to the popularity of Apple’s iPod players.
Apple says the MacBook Pro delivers up to four times the performance of its former flagship laptop, the Power-Book G4, which uses Power-PC chips from IBM Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2006/02/16/bus/apple.to.release.its.first.laptop.using.intel.chip.html   (265 words)

  
 Apple - Hot News
In its first year on the survey, the Apple iPhone scored a stunning 9.1 out of 10 from our readers, beating the ratings that every other phone, from every carrier, in nearly every category, has received in the three years we’ve been including cell phones.
The brothers starred in a mockumentary about a make-believe band and within a year they became a real band with an international fan base, a hit album, and a successful TV show on Nickelodeon.
With Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC News) describing the scene in London as “mayhem”, fans “started queuing at stores overnight” in order to be one of the first to get their hands on a new iPhone. The iPhone has gone on sale at more than 1,300 stores around the UK with each customer limited to two handsets each.
www.apple.com /hotnews   (1505 words)

  
 Star Anise Apple Crisp
The mellowness of nutmeg and the licorice flavor of star anise do the work instead.
For the filling: Place the apple pieces in a medium bowl; stir in the lemon juice and sugar.
Bake for 40 minutes, until the topping is dark brown and the apples are tender.
www.jeanpatterson.com /apple.html   (127 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Apple Growers Nervous   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This year’s apple crop is estimated at 216 million bushels, according to the U.S. Apple Association, up from less than 215 million last year.
More apples are coming from eastern and midwestern states this year, as Washington’s apple crop has dropped by 6 percent, according to Motts.
Little can be done for apples on the trees — especially the later-season varieties that simply aren’t ready for picking, said Diane Kearns, of Fruit Hill Orchard.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030917/Area_apples.asp   (582 words)

  
 plug <> XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2)
"Wasp Star", from the beginning conceptualized as the electric counterpart to the acoustic-heavy "Apple Venus" returns them to the Beatles-esque pop-rock that was their trademark in the early 90s.
Colin Moulding's three contributions are adequate (though not quite as strong as his songs on "Apple Venus"), but in any other band they would have been relegated to the B-side or solo album bin.
The two Apple Venus volumes show a great band returning from a long layoff without missing a beat; we can only wonder how many brilliant albums we missed during their seven year absence.
www.bluecricket.com /plug/reviews/2000/xtcwasp.html   (283 words)

  
 Star Trek: Apple's First Mac OS on Intel Project
The first Apple proposal to move the Macintosh to Intel hardware did not begin with Mac OS X. It began in 1985, shortly after Steve Jobs' departure from Apple.
The project was quickly nixed by Apple's management, but it would be revived several years later in a joint effort by Novell and Apple to port the Mac OS to the x86 processor.
The Star Trek project was canceled, and the Mac OS would not run natively on Intel until after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, which already had an x86-base operating system, NeXTstep.
www.lowendmac.com /orchard/05/0613.html   (1485 words)

  
 APPLE STAR THANK YOU WREATH   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Slice the fruit horizontally (so you see a star in the middle), dry them in a dehydrator and hot glue them to the grapevine wreath, slightly overlapping.
The fairy told the tree, that if she was a good tree...and grew to be big and strong and full of red ripe apples, that she would grant her this wish.
So the apple tree grew and grew and grew...and became the biggest apple tree around, with the reddest, ripest, yummiest apples.
www.epilogsys.com /scoutingweb/SubPages/AppleStarWreath.htm   (349 words)

  
 Wired News: Apple 'Switch' Star Flies High
Teenager Ellen Feiss, the "is-she-stoned?" star of one of Apple's new "Switch" ads, is quickly becoming a Web celebrity but not necessarily for reasons that would please the advertiser.
Feiss is featured in an Apple TV ad in which she criticizes her dad's Windows PC for devouring a school paper, an experience she describes as "kind of a bummer."
She couldn't be contacted for this story, and Apple declined to comment.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,54333,00.html   (769 words)

  
 The Jamaican Star Apple
The star apple tree Chrysophyllum cainito is a native of the Caribbean and Central America.
During the training session (22-24th April, 1996) on the use of the PE Lambda 19, the reflectance attachment was tested.
The major constituents found in star apple volatiles were (E)-2-hexenal (0.25 mg/kg), 1-hexanol (0.09 mg/ kg), limonene (0.17 mg/kg), linalool (0.09 mg/kg), α-copaene (0.13 mg/kg) and hexadecanoic acid (0.11 mg/kg).
wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104 /lectures/starapp.html   (346 words)

  
 Cooks.com - Recipes - Star Apple
Results 1 - 10 of 17 for star apple.
In medium bowl combine spinach, apples, grapes, and carambola.
Place apple chunks in a bowl and squeeze lemon juice over them.
www.cooks.com /rec/search/0,1-0,star_apple,FF.html   (137 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Apple introduces iPod nano
Apple has launched iPod nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players.
The product features an ultra-portable, lightweight design with a gorgeous color screen, Apple’s patent pending click wheel and the ability to hold 1,000 songs or 25,000 photos.
Optional armbands available in gray, pink, blue, red and green allow users to wear their iPod nano as the ultimate fashion and sports accessory.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2005/09/16/life/apple.introduces.ipod.nano.html   (259 words)

  
 Star Apple - Exotic Tropical Fruit - Cape Tribulation
When cut in half there is an attractive star pattern.
The Star Apple has low acidity, so the addition of a little lime juice will enhance the flavour.
Contains detailed marketing inforrmation and statistics including wholesale prices for Star Apple on the Sydney market, for 1999.
www.capetrib.com.au /starapple.htm   (257 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - MEAN BUT SWEET It's Star-Apple season - Thursday | March 14, 2002
Still, despite its reputation, the pulpy fruit with the distinct taste and the 'Star' (embedded with easily-removed fl seeds) which reveals itself when the fruit is halved is heavenly for many.
Stir in curry, flour, coriander, garlic and ginger.
Fill plate with bunches of seedless grapes (try to get different varieties), pieces of Star-Apple, watermelon, pineapple, mango (not too ripe) and Otaheite apples, all with their skin.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020314/cook/cook1.html   (506 words)

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