Edible Portion: Fruit, Bark - drink, Kernel, Nuts, Seed An evergreen tree. It can lose its leaves. It often has buttresses. The bark is smooth and grey. It flakes off in thin strips. Itgrows to 25 m tall and spreads to 4 m across. It has a dense matted fibrous root system. The stem is erect and...
Edible Portion:Flower Stalk, Seeds, Shoots, Drink, Sap, Pith, Vegetable A perennial plant up to 7.5 m tall and 2.5 m wide. It does not have a trunk and has suckers. The plants have a very sharp and tough spine at the tip of each leaf. The leaves are grey-green and occur in rings at the base....
Edible Plants: Flowers, Leaves, Seeds An evergreen tree. It grows to a height of 7-18 m with a spread of 3 m. The trunk is erect and branches heavily. The leaves arelarge and compound like the fingers on a hand. There are up to 9 leaflets. The leaflets can be 30 cm long. The leaves are darkgreen...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Leaves - Tea, Seeds - Coffee A medium sized deciduous tree. It can be 30 m tall. In cultivation it is often only 6-9 m high. The bark is dark brown to black. Itcracks into small squares. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are oval and 12 cm long by 7.5 cm across. They are...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves A large evergreen tree up to 30-50 m high and with buttresses. The bark is dark red-brown and rough and peels off irregularly.The leaves are alternate and oval. They are about 10 to 15 cm long and 3 to 5 cm wide. The upper surface is smooth and shinyand the...
Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves A tall tree. It grows 40 m tall. The crown is dark green. The bark is thin and grey. The leaves are divided with leaflets along thestalk. There are 1-4 pairs of leaflets. These are 5-10 cm long by 2-4 cm wide and the top ones are the largest. The flowers arein groups...
Edible Portion: Nuts, Flavouring, Leaves - Tea, Seeds - Oil A large tree up to 55 m high. Trees lose their leaves during the year. Branches extend upwards giving the tree an open,rounded crown and the tree can be 8 m wide. The stem is stout and erect. The bark is grey and furrowed with an...
Edible Portion: Kernel, Seeds, Nuts, Vegetable A large tree up to 40 m tall and 1 m through at the base. The bark is rough. The leaves are large and can be round, triangular orhave several lobes. The leaves have a pale colour. The leaves are alternate, silvery green and crowded near the tips....
Edible Portion: Leaves, Seeds A shrub. It grows 1.5 m high and spreads 1.5 m wide. There is a dense mass of stems. The leaves are narrow and have blunt tips. They have a mealy white appearance. The flowers are small and yellow. The fruit are papery and have 4 wings. They arecrowded into short...