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  1. Averrhoa bilimbi - Bilimbi

    Edible portion : Fruit, Flowers, Spice A small evergreen tree up to 7-10 m high. It can spread 3 m across. The stem is erect and short. Leaves are large. Leaves have from 5 to 17 or 34 pairs of leaflets. Leaves are pale green. The leaves are often clustered near the branch tips. Flowers are...
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  2. Garcinia aristata - Cuban Mangosteen

    Edible portion : Fruit A small tree. The leaves are dark and glossy with a hard spiny tip. The fruit are small and yellow. They have a white slightly sweet pulp. There are 1 or 2 large seeds. A tropical plant. It is cold hardy down to 0C. It can tolerate salty conditions. It suits lime soils.
    Mangosteen Fruits FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Plant Information

  3. Thamnocalamus spathiflorus - Spathe bamboo

    Shoots Edible parts -Seeds, a bamboo grass. It has a rhizome neck 6 cm long. The culms are 3-4 m tall and 1-2 cm wide. The internodes are 15-18 cmlong. There are 3-6 branches.em, Cereal, Shoots
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  4. Schizostachyum blumei - Tamiyang bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo. It has short rhizomes. The stems are erect and arching over. They hang down at the tip. They are 3-7 m tall and 1-2 cm across. The internodes are 30 cm long. The sheaths on the stems are sword shaped or curved back. They have whitehairs. The leaves are sword...
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  5. Sasa masamuneana - White striped dwarf bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo.
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  6. Plinia cauliflora - Jaboticaba

    Edible portion : Fruit A medium sized evergreen tree. It grows to 5-13 m tall. The trunk is 15-20 cm across. It often has several stems. The bark peels off in patches. The leaves are opposite and small. They are dark green. They are 5 cm long by 2 cm wide. Flowers are produced on larger trunks...
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  7. Digitaria exilis - Fonio

    Food Plants International Edible portion : Seeds, Cereal A millet grass. It is erect. It grows from seed every year. It grows about 50 cm high. It forms tillers or new shoots are the base of the stem. The leaves are narrow. They can be 15 cm long. It has 2 to 4 racemes per inflorescence. These...
    Fonio Edible Seeds Cereal FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Plant Information

  8. Pandanus amaryllifolius - Pandan Leaf, Fragrant Screw Pine

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Flavouring A shrub 2-4 m tall. Often the plant is small due to repeated cutting. It can grow 8 m tall. There are stilt like aerial roots on the stems near the base. It develops suckers and forms clumps. The leaves are arranged in spirals. The leaves are narrow and folded...
    Pandan Leaf Screw Pine FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Plant Information

  9. Yushania anceps - Anceps bamboo

    Edible Portion:Shoots A bamboo. It grows 3-4 m tall. It forms clumps 4-8 m wide. The canes are upright and shiny and dark green. They havedrooping branches and narrow sword shaped leaves 15 cm long.
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  10. Semiarundinaria fastuosa - Narihira bamboo, Temple bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A tall upright bamboo. It grows 7 m high and spreads 2 m wide. The canes are shiny and mid green. They are 1-4 cm wide.They have few leaves on the lower sections. There are purple-brown stripes on the canes. There are 3 branches at each node.
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