Which part of the plant?

Your book, Poorvi, says a spice can come from different parts of a plant. On page 96 it gives the choices: root, bark, leaves, flower buds, fruit and seeds. You fill in a table with your teacher's help.

Here are three that are easy to be sure about. Fenugreek (methi) is the SEEDS of the plant: small, hard, yellowish-brown seeds, the ones Daadi soaks overnight. Cinnamon (dalchini) is BARK: the brown, rolled-up sticks are dried pieces of bark from a tree. Clove (laung) is flower buds: buds that are picked before they open and then dried. They look like tiny brown nails.

Your book also asks you to describe a spice in three ways. Colour: what colour it is, like yellow, brown or black. Texture: how it feels when you touch it. The book's texture words are rough, soft and silky. Taste: how it tastes. The book's taste words are bitter, sweet, sour, salty and spicy.

For example: a cinnamon stick is brown, and it feels rough. Fenugreek seeds taste bitter. When you describe a spice, give its colour, then its texture, then its taste.