Resources Tagged: Vegetables

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  1. Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra - Chinese Broccoli

    Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Stems, Vegetable A cabbage plant with a single fleshy stem. Although it keeps growing from year to year it is normally grown as an annual. Itgrows 45 cm high and spreads 40 cm across. The leaves are dark green and rounded on long stems. Plants start to flowerwhen...
    Chinese Broccoli Broccoli Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  2. Capsicum baccatum - Peruvian Pepper

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Fruit, Spice, Vegetable A spreading shrubby plant. It grows 3 m high and spreads 1.5-2 m wide. The leaves are sword shaped and 1.5-3 cm long by 2-2.5 cm wide. The flowers are white or yellow and 1 cm across and in the axils of leaves. The fruit are small. The fruit is 8-10...
    Peruvian Pepper Peppers Edible Leaves Fruits Spices Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  3. Cucumis sativus - Cucumber

    Edible Portion:Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Seeds - Oil A pumpkin family plant. It is a hairy annual climber with tendrils and yellow flowers. It grows to 0.5 m high and spreads to 2 mwide. The stem is trailing and has bristles. The leaves are heart shaped and the lobes taper. Leaf shape...
    Cucumber Edible Flowers Edible Seeds Vegetables Seed Oil Fruits FPI Plant Information

  4. Cucurbita moschata - Pumpkin

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Flowers A pumpkin family plant. It is a creeping plant with long creeping stems and softly hairy but without prickly hairs. The stem arerounded or 5 angled and moderately hard. They can grow 15-20 m long. The leaves are large and shallowly lobed...
    Pumpkin Fruits Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Vegetables Edible Flowers FPI Plant Information

  5. Cynara scolymus - Globe Artichoke

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable, Stems A thistle like perennial plant. It grows 1-2 m high and spreads to 1 m across. It forms a clump. It has deeply lobed leaves. Theleaves are 80 cm long. They are greyish green above. They have a woolly, white surface underneath. They do not have...
    Edible Leaves Globe Artichoke Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Plant Information Perennials

  6. Dioscorea trifida - Sweet Yam

    Edible Portion: Tubers, Vegetable, Root A yam vine. The stem is square in cross section and does not have spines. The leaves are 25 cm long. They are opposite. Theleaf is divided like fingers on a hand into 3 or more segments. The male flower is on a long stalk and the female flower stalk is...
    Dioscorea trifida Sweet Yam Yams Yams as Food Roots and Tubers Roots Tubers Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  7. Drymaria cordata - West Indian Chickweed

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Vegetable, Root An annual herb. It climbs or creeps along the ground. It has branches that divide in two. It often forms a dense ground cover.The stems form roots at the nodes. The leaves are small, opposite and heart shaped. The leaves are 0.8-2 cm long by 0.5-2 cmwide....
    Edible Leaves Vegetables Roots West Indian Chickweed FPI Plant Information

  8. Equisetum arvense - Field Horsetail

    Edible Portion: Root, Tuber, Stem, Flower Bud, Vegetable A rush like plant. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 40-60 cm high and spreads 30-45 cm wide. The stems are inrings which are tightly packed. They are 60 cm tall. They are slightly rough and have furrows along them. There are...
    Field Horsetail Roots Tubers Roots and Tubers Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  9. Lagenaria siceraria - Bottle Gourd

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Fruit, Vegetable, Flowers A pumpkin family plant. It is an annual vine with large leaves. It can grow 3-9 m long and spread 3-6 m wide. The thick stemshave furrows along them. It can climb over logs by attaching the tendrils which grow out of the stem near the leaf....
    Bottle Gourd Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Fruits Vegetables Edible Flowers FPI Gourds Plant Information

  10. Limnocharis flava - Yellow Velvetleaf

    Edible Portion:Leaves, Flowers, Leaf stalks, Vegetable A herb which grows in water. The leaves form tufts. They are oval and 15-18 cm long by 12 cm wide. The leaf stalk is angularand 30 cm long. The flower head in at the end of the shoot and has a long flower stalk. There is a sheath like a...
    Plant Information Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Yellow Velvetleaf