The aloe vera plant is a tropical plant with thick, spiky leaves thatâs widely cultivated throughout the world. Itâs fairly easy to grow and you can find aloe vera plants in many houses and gardens. The leaves of the aloe vera plant contain a transparent gel which is commonly used to treat minor skin irritations. You can extract aloe vera gel from your own plants and store it home.
The guinea pig (or âcavyâ), a small rodent of the genus Cavia, originated in South America but is now found in cages â and on laps â throughout the world. So it isnât from Guinea (which is the name of both a country and a region in western Africa), and it isnât a pig.1) The animal was perhaps âthought to resemble the young of the Guinea Hog (Potamochoerus),â which is a river pig found in Guinea. (2) Back when the phrase âguinea pigâ was first recorded, the word âGuineaâ was often used to denote some unspecified or unknown faraway land.
Where did tobacco originate from? We already know that processed tobacco comes from the tobacco plant, most commonly Nicotiana tabacum. Plants from the Nicotiana family originated from both North and South America, Australia, Africa and the South Pacific. However, the tobacco that is most commonly grown as a cash crop today originated in the Americas where it had long been cultivated and used by the native people. Christopher Columbus was the first European to be introduced to the plant on his first voyage to the New World.