Resources Tagged: Food Plants

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  1. Schizostachyum zollingeri - Lampar Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A tufted bamboo. It forms many tillers. It grows 10-20 m tall. It has long joints and thin walls. The stems are 8-10 cm across.The tips droop. The leaf sheath is 15 cm tall with a leaf blade is purplish when young and 9 cm long by 9 cm wide. The leafbade is 40 cm long by 7...
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  2. Schizostachyum lima - Anos Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots An endemic erect thin walled bamboo. It is distinguished among all the Philippines forms by long internodes usually about 1m inlength. The stem is about 2.5 to 4.8 cm across and green without spines. Branches on the fifth node may or may not bepresent.
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  3. Schizostachyum dullooa - Dulu bamboo, Duullooa bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows in tufts. The stems (culms) are erect and 6-9 m long. They are 3-7 cmacross. They are woody. The internodes are 40-75 cm long and hollow. The sheaths are 12-30 cm long and 10-25 cm wide.
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  4. Schizostachyum brachycladum - Sacred Bali Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots An erect bamboo. It forms dense clumps. It grows about 10-20 m high and 5-10 cm across the stem. The shoots are smoothand with shorter internodes than Schizostachyum lima. They are 20-50 cm long. The sheaths stay on the stem and havereddish hairs. The leaves are sword...
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  5. Sasa spp. - Bamboo shoots

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo.
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  6. Tectona grandis - Teak

    Edible portion:Leaves - Colouring, Fruit A large tree. It grows 25-50 m tall. The trunk is 1 m across. It can have slight buttresses. It is open with many branches. It loses some leaves during the year. The leaves are oval and have a rough surface. They can be 60 cm long. The flowers are in large...
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  7. Ziziphus jujuba - Chinese Jujube

    Edible portion:Fruit, Seeds - oil A small deciduous tree. It can grow to 13 m tall. It has drooping branches. There are thorns on the branches. The plant sends up thorny suckers often at a distance from the tree. These need to be cut off. They can be used for rootstock for grafting. The leaves...
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  8. Garcinia intermedia - Lemon Drop Mangosteen

    Edible Portion: Fruit An erect tree. It grows 5-12 m tall. It can be 30 m tall. It has yellow latex. The leaves are simple and opposite and narrowly oval.. The leaf blades are 8-25 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. The flowers are clustered in the axils of the leaves. They are greenish white. The fruit are...
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  9. Rubus x loganobaccus - Boysenberry

    Edible Portion: Fruit A vigorous trailing bramble. This is a cross between a raspberry and probably a dewberry. The vine looses its leaves during the year. Plants are self fertile. The fruit is a berry. It is long and red but matures to a purple-black. The berry is larger than a Youngberry and...
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  10. Vitis aestivalis - Summer Grape

    Edible portion: Fruit A grape vine. The leaves may not have lobes or can have 3-5 lobes. They are green above and hairy underneath. They have shallow teeth. The flowers are in a dense panicle. The are 5-15 cm across. It is a temperate plant. In Canada it grows in dry woods.
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