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There are 40 types of nuts known in the world, although the scientists suggest there are less than 40. A bit of the history, if we have a look into the past, we know that the ancient Geeks and Romans had quarreled about what foetus to consider as nuts. According to the biology, a nut is considered as a foetus that has hard nutshell with a kernel inside. That’s why only hazelnuts, cashew and pine nuts can be regarded as nuts. All the rest what we consider as nuts are seeds or drupes. Next...

	Hazelnuts Filbert, or Lombard nut, and also its wild growing relative hazel -is true nut king.
	Cashew nut For the first time this unusual plant was found in Amazon.
	Coconut Coconut palm tree can be found even on the far away coral islands, where the coconuts, which are not afraid of salty water, are brought by oceanic current.
	Walnut Walnuts, based on calorie content, do not concede too many products of an animal origin, for example calorie content in beef is 7 times lower.
	Pecan nut Its name from algoncins language is translated as "nut that breaks up by a stone".
	Almond The Latin name of almond tree is Amigdalus – this name comes from ancient goddess of Phoenician.
	Brazil nut The Brazilian, or American, nut on taste reminds cedar nuts.
	Macadamia nut Macadamia were named by botanist Muller in honour of the Scottish chemist John Macadama.
	Pistachio nut It is decided to gather pistachios in the night, because during the day the prominent harmful to the man aromatic substances of pitch and volatile oil.
	Cedar nut and stone-pine nut In 15th century a Siberian pine was wrongly called the Siberian cedar.
	Peanut This plant has not only external yellow-orange flowers, but also closely blooming flowers pedicels of which get deeply into the ground where they sprout in full darkness.
	Chestnut Nuts of a chestnut are very tasty and nutritious, especially fried or candied.