Resources Tagged: Vegetables

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  1. Pyrostegia venusta - Flaming Trumpet, Flame Vine, Golden Shower

    Edible Portion: Flowers A woody vine. It is fast growing and keeps its leaves throughout the year. The leaves are compound with 2 or 3 oval leaflets.The leaves are in opposite pairs along the stem. The central leaflet can be a coiled tendril. The flowers are reddish-orange.They are tube shaped...
    Vegetables Plant Information FPI Golden Shower Flame Vine Flaming Trumpet Edible Flowers Pyrostegia venusta

  2. Citrullus lanatus - Watermelon

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Vegetable An annual climber with deeply divided leaves and tendrils along the vine. It trails over the ground and has hairy, angular stems.The leaves are on long leaf stalks. The leaves are deeply divided along their length. These lobe are rounded and can...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Fruits Watermelon Citrullus lanatus

  3. Lepidium sativum - Garden Cress

    Edible parts -Leaves, Herb, Spice, Vegetable, Seeds - oil A cabbage family herb. It is an annual plant about 60 cm high. It has narrowly lobed leaves. The leaves near the base havelong stalks and the leaves higher on the plant do not have stalks. The flowers are small and white. The fruit is a...
    Garden Cress Plant Information FPI Seed Oil Edible Seeds Vegetables Spices Herbs Edible Leaves Leafy Greens

  4. Mucuna pruriens - Velvet Bean

    EdiblePortion: Seeds, Young pods, Leaves, Vegetable An evergreen herb of shrub. It is a climbing vine. It climbs to 6 m high. It can re-grow each year or live for a few years. Thestems are slender with long, slender branches. They are very hairy when young. The leaves are alternate with sword...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Leaves Edible Pods Edible Seeds Vegetable Legumes Legumes as Food Legumes Mucuna pruriens Velvet Bean

  5. Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis - Yard Long Bean

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Pods, Vegetable A climbing bean with long pods. The vines can be 3 m long. They normally twine around sticks. Dwarf kinds also occur.Leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are oval and side leaflets are at an angle. Leaflets can be 2-16 cm long by 1-12 cm wide.The...
    Plant Information FPI Legumes as Food Legumes Vegetables Edible Pods Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Vigna unguiculata Yard long Bean

  6. 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...
    Yellow Velvetleaf FPI Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Plant Information

  7. Mirabilis jalapa - Four O'Clock Plant

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Seeds - Spice, Flowers - Colouring, Vegetable, Root - Tea A bushy herb. It can grow as an annual plant but it can keep growing from year to year from the thick tuberous root. It grows to60-200 cm high and spreads to 60 cm wide. The stem is short, thick and branching. The...
    Plant Information FPI Roots Vegetables Spices Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Four O'Clock

  8. Kigelia africana - Sausage Tree

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Fruit, Bark, Flowers It is a tree which loses many leaves during the year. It grows 9-18 m high. The crown is rounded. The trunk is short and straightand about 80 cm across. It often branches from the base. The branches spread out and the secondary branches hang down.The...
    Plant Information Vegetables FPI Edible Flowers Fruits Edible Seeds Sausage Tree

  9. Agave americana - Agave

    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....
    Perennials Vegetables Sap Edible Seeds Edible Flowers Agave

  10. Solanum macrocarpon - African Eggplant

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable An annual plant. It can keep groing for some years. The leaves are dark green and glossy. The leaf stalk is not well defined as the leaf blade runs down into the stalk. Leaves are generally not very hairy. The flowers are purple or sometimes...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves eggplant African Eggplant