Edible Portion: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Nuts, Root A medium sized tree. It grows 4-10 m high. It has an irregular trunk and broad crown. Often it is low and sprawling. It loses itsleaves during the year. The leaves are made up of 5-12 pairs of leaflets. The leaflets are 2-4 cm long and they fall...
Edible Portion: Kernels, Fruit, Nuts, Vegetable, Leaves, Seed, Seeds - oil A shrub or tree. It grows 9 m high and spreads 6 m wide. It can be 15 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The crown isdense and rounded. The bark is grey and finely cracked. The leaves have leaflets along the...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves - flavouring, Sap A medium sized tree. It grows to 10-20 m high. It is spreading and loses its leaves during the year. The bark is silver grey andpeels in circular strips. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are bronze when they open, turn dark green then...
Edible Portion: Flowers, Flowers - Tea, Fruit, Seeds A deciduous shrub or small tree. It grows 2-8 m tall. It has an irregular shape. The leaves fall off during the year. The leavesgrow in spirals at the tips of the branches. They are smooth and broadly sword shaped and taper to both ends. The...
Edible Portion: Seeds, Fruit, Leaves, Flower Petals, Tea A small deciduous tree. It grows 2-20 m tall. The trunk is bent and has many branches. The branches are spreading. The barkis greyish-brown and peels off in flakes. The leaves are pale green and feathery. New leaves are pinkish. The leaves...
Edible Portion: Cabbage, Fruit, Sap, Seeds - Coffee, Palm Heart, Vegetable, Bud A palm. It can be a stemless suckering bush or have a ring of suckers around the base. It often grows 3-6 m high but can be 10-25 m high. It can also be a many stemmed clump. The old stems hang over then curve upwards...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Stems, Vegetable A tree like cactus. It grows to 2-5 m tall. It has many branches. It is spreading and bluish-green. It has succulent pads. Thejoints are 20-40 cm long by 10-20 cm wide. The spines are 2-3 cm long. Spineless kinds also occur. The flowers are large and...
Edible Portion: Seeds, Pods, Fruit, Vegetable A deciduous tree. It grows up to 30 m high. It has a large stocky trunk. It has small buttresses. The branches are heavy. Theleaves are twice divided and feather like. They are deep green and there are 24 pairs of small leaflets and 50 larger...
Edible Portion:Seeds, Nuts, Cabbage, Fruit, Palm Heart, Sap, Vegetable, Seeds - Oil An unbranched palm with a stout erect stem. The stem is rough due to the leaf bases which remain attached. It grows to 20-30m tall. The trunk is about 75 cm across. The crown consists of about 40 open leaves....
Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Stems A scrambling shrub or vine. The stem is strong and woody. It branches freely. It can climb to 20 m high. The plant is erect andshrub like when young. The twigs have soft brown hairs when young. The leaves are opposite and oblong. They have heartshaped...