Herbs & Spices
🧂Nutmeg Family
Myristicaceae
~500 species, 2 major spice products
Tropical trees that uniquely produce two distinct spices from a single fruit: nutmeg from the seed and mace from the lacy red covering around it. A botanical two-for-one deal.
Source: Wikipedia💡Nutmeg was once so valuable that the Dutch traded Manhattan to the British in exchange for the nutmeg-producing island of Run in the Banda Islands.
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