リソース タグを付けた: Starchy Staples

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  1. Amorphophallus paeoniifolius - Elephant Foot Yam

    Edible Portion: Tuber, Roots, Corm, Leaves, Leaf Stalks, Vegetable A taro family plant but with a very divided leaf. It grows to 0.75-1 m high. It is a herbaceous plant with rough and mottled leafstalks. It has a straight stem and the leaf is divided into leaflets. The leaves can be 1 m in width....
    Starchy Staples Elephant Foot Yam Tubers Roots Edible Leaves Vegetables FPI Plant Information Yams Yams as Food

  2. Hordeum vulgare - Barley

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Cereal, Seeds - Tea An erect annual grass. It grows 80-120 cm tall. The nodes are solid and the internodes are hollow. The leaves are narrow.There are 5-10 leaves. They are produced alternately on opposite sides of the stem at the nodes. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped...
    Starchy Staples Barley Edible Seeds Cereals FPI Plant Information

  3. Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Comb Fringe Grass

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Cereal, Rhizome, Root An annual grass. The stems are slender. They can lie along the ground. These can form roots at the nodes. They can have runners and form mats. It is 15-60 cm high. The edges of the leaf sheaths have small hairs. The leaf blades are flat and 5-20 cm long...
    Starchy Staples FPI Plant Information Comb Fringe Grass Grasses Edible Seeds Cereals Rhizobium Roots Annuals

  4. Colocasia esculenta - Taro

    Edible Portion:Corm, Leaves, Stalks, Vegetable, Root, Flowers This plant has large flat leaves on the end of upright leaf stalks. It grows up to 1 m high. The leaf stalk or petiole joins the leaf towards the centre of the leaf. The leaves are 20-50 cm long. Near the ground a thickened rounded...
    Taro Starchy Staples Edible Leaves Vegetables Roots Edible Flowers FPI Plant Information

  5. Manihot esculenta - Cassava

    Edible Portion: Root, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable A plant which can re-grow year after year from the thickened roots. It has several stems. The stems are woody and have some branches. Plants grow up to 2 or 3 metres high. Stalks have distinct scars where leaves have fallen. The leaves tend to be...
    Starchy Staples JCC Root Crops Roots FPI Plant Information Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetabes Cassava

  6. Ipomoea batatas - Sweet Potato

    Edible Portion: Tuber, Root, Leaves, Vegetable This is a root crop which produces long creeping vines. The leaves are carried singly along the vine. Leaves can vary considerably from divided like fingers on a hand to being entire and rounded or heart shaped. At the end of the vine, trumpet shaped...
    Edible Leaves Vegetables Sweet Potato Starchy Staples Roots Roots and Tubers Tubers FPI Plant Information