Resources Tagged: Vegetables

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  1. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Vegetables Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Fruits Pumpkin

  2. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Fruits Seed Oil Vegetables Edible Seeds Edible Flowers Cucumber

  3. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Spices Fruits Edible Leaves Peppers Peruvian Pepper

  4. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Broccoli Chinese Broccoli

  5. Benincasa hispida - Wax Gourd

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable A climbing, pumpkin family plant. The vine can be 3 m long. The plant re-grows from seed each year. The vines are thick,furrowed and hairy. The leaves are heart shaped with 5 to 7 lobes. They are rough to touch. Flowers are yellow. The...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Fruits Gourds Wax Gourd

  6. Dioscorea bulbifera - Potato Yam

    Edible Portion: Tuber, Root, Bulbils, Vegetable A yam with a long smooth stemmed vine, round in cross section. It winds to the left. It does not have spines. The vine can climbup into trees and grow to long lengths. The leaves are large and round. They are pointed at the tip and round at the...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Tubers Roots Yams as Food Yams Dioscorea bulbifera Potato Yam

  7. Allium schoenoprasum - Chives

    Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Bulb, Herb, Spice, Vegetable An onion family plant. It is a herb which grows one year, then flowers the next. It is up to 30 cm tall. A narrow leafed onionwhich forms dense clumps. The leaves are hollow and narrow. They are 10-25 cm long by 0.1 cm in cross...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Herbs Spices Roots Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Chives

  8. Allium ascalonicum - Shallot

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Bulbs, Flowers, Vegetable An onion family plant. It is a bulb plant. It grows to about 30 cm high. The bulb can be 6 cm across. The protective coat overthe bulbs is purplish, brown or white. The leaves are 10-35 cm long by 3-10 mm wide. It often produces new shoots from...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Shallot

  9. Dioscorea alata - Greater Yam

    Edible Portion:Tubers, Root, Vegetable, Bulbils A yam with a long angular vine. It can climb 15 m high. The stems are square and twine to the right around support sticks. Thestem does not have spines. It is often coloured green or purple. The leaves are heart shaped and borne in pairs along the...
    Plant Information FPI Roots Roots and Tubers Tubers Vegetables Starchy Staples Yams as Food Yams Greater Yam Dioscorea alata

  10. Carthamus tinctorius - Safflower

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Leaves, Seeds - Oil, Flowers, Spice, Vegetable An erect annual herb. It grows to 60-150 cm high. It has any branches. It has spines but the number vary. The stems are whiteand stiff and round with fine grooves along their length. The kinds with more spiny leaves are better...
    Vegetables Spices Edible FLo Seed Oil Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Safflower