Resources Tagged: Fpi

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  1. Phoenix reclinata - Senegal Date Palm

    Edible Portion: Cabbage, Fruit, Sap, Seeds - Coffee, Palm Heart, Vegetable, Bud A palm. It can be a stemless suckering bush or have a ring of suckers around the base. It often grows 3-6 m high but can be 10-25 m high. It can also be a many stemmed clump. The old stems hang over then curve upwards...
    Date Palm Senegal Date Palm Cabbage Fruits FPI Edible Seeds Palm Heart Vegetables Edible Flowers Plant Information

  2. Phoenix dactylifera - Date Palm

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Cabbage, Sap, Palm Heart, Flowers, Nuts-Oil A tall unbranched evergreen palm. It grows to 30 m high. The trunk can be 30-40 cm across. The trunk is covered with fibresand has the bases of old leaves along it. It produces suckers on the trunk and at the base. The fronds are...
    Phoenix dactylifera Fruits Cabbage Palm Heart Nuts Edible Nuts Date Palm Palm Varieties FPI Plant Information Sap

  3. Persea americana - Avocado, West Indian Avocado

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Vegetable A small to medium sized tree. It grows 8-10 m high. Trees can grow to 25 m high. The leaf stalk is 1.5-5 cm long. Leaves areentire, oval and 5-40 cm long. Flowers are greenish, small and on the ends of branches. Clusters of flowers may contain 200-300 flowers....
    Persea americana Vegetables Fruits FPI Plant Information Avocado West Indian Avocado

  4. Opuntia ficus-indica - Sweet Prickly Pear, Indian Fig

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Stems, Vegetable A tree like cactus. It grows to 2-5 m tall. It has many branches. It is spreading and bluish-green. It has succulent pads. Thejoints are 20-40 cm long by 10-20 cm wide. The spines are 2-3 cm long. Spineless kinds also occur. The flowers are large and...
    Edible Seeds Fruits Vegetables Sweet Prickly Pear Indian Fig FPI Plant Information

  5. Myrciaria glomerata - Cabelluda, Cabelludo

    Edible Portion:Fruit A shrub or small tree. It grows 8 m tall. It can have several thin trunks. The fruit are small and yellow with a sweet pulp. Theyare 2 cm across. They have 2 seeds.
    Fruits Cabelluda Cabelludo FPI Plant Information Shrubs Small Trees

  6. 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...
    Fruit Tree Fruits Pitomb FPI Plant Information

  7. Enterolobium cyclocarpum - Earpod Tree, Mexican Walnut Tree, Pitchwood

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Pods, Fruit, Vegetable A deciduous tree. It grows up to 30 m high. It has a large stocky trunk. It has small buttresses. The branches are heavy. Theleaves are twice divided and feather like. They are deep green and there are 24 pairs of small leaflets and 50 larger...
    Fruits Vegetables Earpod Tree Mexican Walnut Tree Pitchwood Edible Pods Edible Seeds FPI Plant Information

  8. Elaeis guineensis - African Oil Palm

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Nuts, Cabbage, Fruit, Palm Heart, Sap, Vegetable, Seeds - Oil An unbranched palm with a stout erect stem. The stem is rough due to the leaf bases which remain attached. It grows to 20-30m tall. The trunk is about 75 cm across. The crown consists of about 40 open leaves....
    African Oil Palm Fruits Vegetables Edible Seeds Nuts Edible Nuts Cabbage Palm Heart Sap Seed Oil FPI Plant Information

  9. Solanum macrocarpon - African Eggplant

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable An annual plant. It can keep groing for some years. The leaves are dark green and glossy. The leaf stalk is not well defined as the leaf blade runs down into the stalk. Leaves are generally not very hairy. The flowers are purple or sometimes...
    African Eggplant eggplant Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  10. Clymenia polyandra - Clymenia, Polyandra Kumquat

    Edible Portion: Fruit A citrus relative. The tree is 5-8 m tall. The leaves are large (18 cm x 6 cm) and simple. Young leaves have lobes. The leavesare more thin and papery than other citrus. The leaves taper towards the tip and have notched edges. The leaf stalks are shortand without wings. It...
    Kumquat Clymenia Polyandra Kumquat FPI Fruits Fruit Trees