Resources Tagged: Food Plants

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  1. Albizia julibrissin - Silk Tree

    Edible portion: Leaves, Flowers, Leaves - tea, Vegetable A tree which grows up to 12 m tall and spreads to 10 m wide. It loses its leaves during the year. The crown tends to be flat. The bark is dark brown and smooth. The leaves are twice divided. Each primary leaflet has 20-30 pairs of secondary...
    Silk Tree Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  2. Annona cherimola - Cherimoya

    Edible portion: Fruit A small deciduous tree up to 6 -10 m tall. In some locations trees keep their leaves throughout the year. It has a brown velvety tomentum on the under surface of the leaves. The leaves are 8-20 cm long and up to 10 cm wide. There is a single leaflet. The flowers occur either...
    FPI Fruit Tree Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Cherimoya

  3. Faidherbia albida - White-Thorn

    Edible portion: Seeds, Leaves, Young pods, Gum, Caution A very large spreading tree. It grows up to 20-31 m tall. The trunk can be 1 m across. The trunk is light grey. The leaves are fine and drooping. The leaves can be light green or blue-green. The twigs are white and smooth. It has thorns...
    Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... FPI White Thorn Edible Seeds Edible Leaves

  4. Flemingia macrophylla - Longleaf Wurrus

    Edible portion:Leaves, Pods, Vegetable, Seeds - flavouring A small shrub or climber. It grows 1.2-3.5 m high. The stems have ridges and are softly hairy. The leaves have 3 leaflets. These are oval or sword shaped and 3-15 cm long by 1.3-8 cm wide. They taper towards the tip and are rounded at the...
    Flemingia Agroforestry Crops FPI Vegetables Wurrus Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Edible Leaves Edible Plants Seeds

  5. Gliricidia sepium - Mother of Cacao

    Edible portion:Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable, Caution An evergreen shrub or tree. It grows to 10 m high and spreads to 3 m across. The crown is irregular. The bark is grey. The stem is erect and branching. The young branches are hairy. The leaves are compound with 8 to 14 leaflets. These are 7 cm...
    FPI Edible Flowers Cacao Vegetables Caution Shrub Useful Tree Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  6. Cecropia peltata - Cecropia

    Edible portion:Leaves, Fruit, Flowers A medium sized evergreen tree. It can grow 15-20 m high. The trunk can be 50 cm across. The trunk and branches are hollow. The leaves are large and have 7-9 lobes arranged like fingers on a hand. The leaves have lobes which are shield shaped. The leaves are...
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  7. Annona sp. - Chirimoya del Monte

    Edible portion: Fruit A small tree. It grows 4 m high. The trunk is 15-20 cm across. The new branches have a rusty colour. The leaves are alternate. They are 13-15 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. The flowers occur singly. They are near the ends of branches and are large. The fruit is compound. It is 8 cm...
    Fruit Tree FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Plant Information Annonas

  8. Calamus viminalis - Bitter Rattan

    Edible portion:Fruit, Shoots, Vegetable A vigorous climbing palm. It has fairly stout, prickly stems. The stems climb with the aid of flagella. The leaf sheaths are woolly white. The leaves are spreading and pale green. They are about 1 m long. They are divided into many narrow leaflets. These...
    Rattan Edible Plants Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... FPI Fruit

  9. Eucalyptus deglupta - Rainbow Eucalyptus

    A tree. It grows 65-70 m tall. The trunk can be 240 cm across. The bark sheds in strips. It is a tropical plant. It grows from sea level to 1,800 m above sea level.
    Tropical Trees Eucalyptus FPI Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Useful Tree

  10. Canavalia ensiformis - Jack Bean

    Legumes Edible parts -Seeds, Leaves, Young pods, Spice, Flowers, Vegetable A perennial climber, although short kinds do occur. Often it is a more bushy plant than the sword bean. Plants up to 1.5 m long.Stems can be hairy. Leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are oval and 5.7-20 cm long by...
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