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  1. 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...
    Banana Musa acuminata Fruits Edible Flowers FPI Plant Information

  2. Citrus medica - Citron

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Herb, Spice, Leaves A small evergreen tree. It grows up to 3-5 m high and spreads to 2 m across. The stem is stout, erect and thorny. The leavesare green and 20 cm x 10 cm. The tree has fat spines. The leaves have teeth along the edge. The leaf stalk does not havewings. The...
    FPI Citron Fruits Herbs Spices Edible Leaves Fruits Herbs Fruit Trees

  3. 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...
    Shallot Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  4. 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...
    Dioscorea alata Greater Yam Yams Yams as Food Starchy Staples Vegetables Tubers Roots and Tubers Roots FPI Plant Information

  5. Coffea arabica - Arabian Coffee

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Herb, Spice, Leaves - tea An evergreen shrub. It grows to 3-5 m high and spreads to 3 m across. The stem is slender and the branches are flexible. Theleaves are glossy green, oblong, and tapering towards the tip. They occur opposite each other and have easy to see...
    Coffee arabica Coffee Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Herbs Herbs and Spices Spices FPI Plant Information

  6. Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis - Yard Long Bean

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Pods, Vegetable A climbing bean with long pods. The vines can be 3 m long. They normally twine around sticks. Dwarf kinds also occur.Leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are oval and side leaflets are at an angle. Leaflets can be 2-16 cm long by 1-12 cm wide.The...
    Yard long Bean Vigna unguiculata Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Edible Pods Vegetables Legumes Legumes as Food FPI Plant Information

  7. Lupinus mutabilis - Andean Lupin

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Vegetable An erect annual herb. It grows to 1.5 m tall. It has a thick taproot. It can keep growing from year to year. The stems arebranched, woody and mostly without hairs. The leaves have leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. There are 7-9 leaflets.These are oblong and...
    Legumes Legumes as Food Legume Varieties Andean Lupin Edible Seeds Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  8. Lepidium sativum - Garden Cress

    Edible parts -Leaves, Herb, Spice, Vegetable, Seeds - oil A cabbage family herb. It is an annual plant about 60 cm high. It has narrowly lobed leaves. The leaves near the base havelong stalks and the leaves higher on the plant do not have stalks. The flowers are small and white. The fruit is a...
    Leafy Greens Edible Leaves Herbs Spices Vegetables Edible Seeds Seed Oil FPI Plant Information Garden Cress

  9. Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum - Leek

    Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Herb, Vegetable, Bulb, Sprouts An onion like plant without a bulb and with flat leaves. It grows one year, then flowers the next. There is one bulb. There can bebulblets. The covering is white. The leaves are flattened and vary from 40-100 cm long by 1.2-2.5...
    Leeks Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Herbs Roots Vegetables Sprouts FPI Plant Information

  10. Oryza sativa - Rice

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal, Husks - Oil An annual grass with hollow stems. The stems can be 30 cm to 150 cm tall. (Floating varieties can be 5 m long.) The nodesare solid and swollen. The stem is protected by a skin layer which can often be high in silicon. A clump of shoots are producedas...
    Rice Edible Seeds Cereal Oil FPI Plant Information Starchy Staples