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Resources Tagged: Starchy Staples

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  1. Bambusa vulgaris - Common Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots An erect clump forming spineless bamboo. It is a large bamboo with strong stalks used for buildings. The stalks can be 20 m talland 5-10 cm across at the base. They are often not straight. The stalks can be green and glossy or yellow or yellow with greenstripes. It very...
    Bamboo Sprout Bamboo Starchy Staples Plant Information FPI

  2. Guadua chacoensis - Taquara

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo
    Taquara Plant Information FPI Starchy Staples Bamboo Sprout Bamboo

  3. Xanthosoma sagittifolium - Chinese taro

    Edible portion : Tubers, Root, Leaves, Vegetable, Leaf Stalk, Stem A herb up to 2 m tall. It has a short stem. At the top of the stem it produces large leaves. A corm is produced at the base of the plant. It produces about 10 cormels on the underground corm. These are about 15-25 cm long and...
    Roots and Tubers Vegetables Edible Leaves Roots Starchy Staples Plant Information FPI Malanga

  4. Caryota mitis - Lesser Fishtail Palm, Clustered Fishtail Palm

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Cabbage, Starch, Sago, Palm heart, Sap A small slender palm and the only representative of this genus in the Philippines which sends up shoots from the base of thetrunk, forming clumps. It forms a cluster of closely spaced stems. It can be 5 m high. The trunks are 5-15 cm...
    Plant Information FPI Sap Palm Varieties Palm Heart Starchy Staples Cabbage Fishtail Palm Lesser Fishtail Palm Edible Seeds Caryota mitis

  5. Bambusa multiplex - Hedge Bamboo, Chinese Dwarf Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A hollow tufted bamboo. It forms clumps. It is 2-6 m tall. It has slender stalks. The stalks are 1-2.5 cm across. They arch overat the tips. The internodes are 30-50 cm long. The culm sheath is 12-15 cm long by 6-8 cm wide. It is light green when youngand turns...
    Plant Information FPI Starchy Staples Dwarf Bamboo Bamboo Sprout Bamboo Hedge Bamboo

  6. Yucca gloriosa - Candle Yucca

    Edible portion:Flowers, Fruit, Root, Stem A shrub. It grows 1.8-2.5 m high and spreads 1.2-1.8 m wide. The trunk is woody. The leaves form a ring at the ends of branches and are blue-green to dark green. The leaves are 60 cm long. They have spines at the tips. The flowers form a spike of...
    Indigenous Food Pl... Food Plants Plant Information Edible Flowers Roots Starchy Staples Candle Yucca FPI Yucca