Resources Tagged: Fpi

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  1. Litchi chinensis - Litchi, Lychee

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Aril A medium sized evergreen tree. It grows up to 15 m tall but can be 35 m tall. It has a dense round crown. The trunk is smoothand grey with brittle trunk and branches. The trunk can be 1 m across. Leaves are shiny and light green. The leaves arereddish when young. They...
    Plant Information FPI Aril Fruit Tree Lychee Litchi Fruits Litchi chinensis

  2. Guizotia abyssinica - Niger Seed

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Leaves, Oil, Vegetable An erect branched herb. It grows 30-180 cm tall. The stems are soft and hairy. The leaves are usually carried opposite one another. The leaves do not have stalks and they clasp the stem. The leaves have teeth along the edge and the surface is a little...
    Plant Information FPI Niger Seed Vegetables Oil Edible Leaves Edible Seeds

  3. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Cereals Edible Seeds Barley Starchy Staples

  4. Amaranthus caudatus - Grain Amaranth

    Edible parts -Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable An annual plant which can be 2 m high and 45 cm across. The stems are angular and it can have a single stem or be branched. It is often limp in the upper parts. Plants are hairy at first but become smooth. Often they are tinged purple. Leaves are 2-4 cm long...
    Plant Information FPI Amaranth Vegetables Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Grain Amaranth

  5. Psophocarpus tetragonolobus - Winged Bean

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Pods, Leaves, Flowers, Roots, Vegetable A climbing perennial bean up to 3 or 4 m tall. It can re-grow each year from the fattened roots. The stems twine around supportsor trail over the ground. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaf stalks are long. The leaflets are 8-15 cm...
    Legume Varieties Legumes Legumes as Food Plant Information FPI Vegetables Roots Edible Flowers Edible Pods Edible Seeds Psophocarpus tetra... Winged Bean

  6. Geonoma interrupta - Chontilla

    Edible Portion: Young Flowers, Palm Hearts, Cabbage, Seed palm. It can have a single stem or up to 10 stems. They can be 0.1-7 m tall and 2-12 cm wide. They are light brown. Thereare 6-23 leaves and the blades are 2 m long. The leaflets may be regular or irregular. There are 3-41 curved leaflets...
    Plant Information FPI Cabbage Chontilla Edible Seeds Palm Heart Edible Flowers

  7. Bambusa flexuosa - Lesser Thorny Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo. It grows 6-7 cm tall. The stems are 4-6 cm across. The tips curve downwards. The internodes are 20-30 cm long.It has branches down to the base. It has tough thorns.
    Plant Information FPI Thorny Bamboo Bamboo Sprout Bamboo

  8. Eugenia luschnathiana - Pitomb

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds A tree. It grows up to 9 m tall and spreading about 5 m wide. The bark is mottled brown. It has glossy leaves. They are darkgreen above and pale green underneath. It is evergreen. The fruit are yellow and about 2.5 cm long. They contain 1 to 4 seeds.They have a rose...
    Plant Information FPI Pitomb Fruits Fruit Tree

  9. Clausena lansium - Wampi

    Edible portions : Fruit, Leaves A small evergreen tree. It grows up to 6-10 m high. The leaves are 10-30 cm long and with leaflets along the stalk. There are 7 -15 pairs of leaflets which are 7-10 cm long. The flowers are in open flower stalk arrangements on the ends of branches. The fruit is...
    Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... FPI Edible Leaves Fruits Wampi

  10. Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets

    Some 3 billion people in the world live outside the cash economy in the world’s poorest nations. Food security and regular supply are their daily concerns. Chronic malnutrition is a leading cause of death and disease for them. Young children are amongst the most affected. One child every 5-10...
    Herbs Seeds Nuts Leafy Greens Fruits Legumes as Food Legumes Starchy Staples Vegetables Bamboo Plant Information Technical Publicat... FPS FPI