Resources Tagged: Edible Flowers

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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...
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  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...
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  3. 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...
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  4. Aloysia triphylla - Lemon Verbena

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Herb, Flowers A shrub to 1.5-3 m high. It spreads to 3 m across. It keeps growing from year to year. It loses its leaves during the year. Theleaves are slender and green. They are 10 cm long. They smell strongly of lemon. Under the leaves there are oil glands whichgive a...
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  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...
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  6. Aloe vera - Barbados Aloe

    Edible Portion: Leaf Bud, Seeds, Gel, Flowers A perennial succulent plant 80 cm high. It spreads to 1 m wide. It develops suckers. The leaves form a rosette or ring justabove the ground. They are fleshy and long. They are curved outwards or rounded underneath. They taper to a blunt point.They are...
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  7. Allium schoenoprasum subsp. schoenoprasum - Siberian Chive

    Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Bulb An onion family plant. It is a herb. It grows 20-50 cm high. The leaves sheath the base. The bulb is oblong. The leaves arenearly round and hollow. The flowers are purple or pink and small. They are lily shaped and occur as several together is a tight...
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  8. 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

  9. Musa acuminata - Banana

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Flower stalk, Stem The banana false stems usually have black marks on them. The canal of the leaf stalk is like an open drain. There are dry flapswhere the leaf stalk joins the false stem. The leaves are paddle shaped. These are diploid bananas. They can be seeded...
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  10. 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