For instance, the produce cases of Japanese supermarkets are stacked with perfectly round melons that boast little green stems knotted like origami figures and carry price tags upward of $75 US.

例如日本的超市里堆满了圆圆的，瓜茎上还带着刺儿的西瓜以及带着标有超过75美金的价签。

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Potatoes (like tomatoes) contain poison in the stems and leaves –and even in the potato itself if left to turn green (the green is due to a high concentration of the glycoalkaloid poison).

马铃薯（就像西红柿）在茎和叶子中含有毒素——如果它变成绿的，甚至马铃薯本身也会有毒。

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Potatoes (like tomatoes) contain poison in the stems and leaves – and even in the potato itself if left to turn green (the green is due to a high concentration of the glycoalkaloid poison).

马铃薯（就像西红柿）在茎和叶子中含有毒素——如果它变成绿的，甚至马铃薯本身也会有毒。

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When browsing the spring onions, look for small bulbs and taut green stems.

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The green bits, the stems and leaves, began as porcelain too but were so prone to breaking that the artist now constructs them of painted metal, or tole.

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Rusts especially exercised him: how they lived, under the green live tissue of stems, how they spread, travelling for miles on the jet stream, and how they fell from the sky to infect even the healthiest crop, if the moisture and temperature were right.

ECONOMIST: Norman Borlaug