Resources Tagged: Starchy Staples

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  1. Bambusa heterostachya - Malay Dwarf Green

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo.
    Plant Information Starchy Staples FPI Bamboo Sprout Bamboo Dwarf Bamboo Malay Dwarf Green

  2. Bambusa emeiensis - Ying Yang Yellow Strip Bamboo

    Edible Portion:Flowers A bamboo. It grows 5-10 m tall. The stems are 5-8 cm across. The tips hang down. The internodes are 15-30 cm long.Branches are higher up the stem.
    Plant Information FPI Ying Yang Yellow S... Starchy Staples Bamboo Edible Flowers

  3. Bambusa bambos - Giant Thorny Bamboo, Spiny Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots, Seeds, Cereal A densely tufted bamboo. The culm or stem is 30 m tall. It is 1`5-18 cm across. The wall is very thick. The internodes are 20-40cm long. The stem is bright green. The nodes are slightly swollen. The lower nodes can have aerial roots. There are branchesfrom...
    Cereals Plant Information FPI Edible Seeds Spiny Bamboo Giant Bamboo Giant Thorny Bamboo Starchy Staples Bamboo Sprout Bamboo

  4. Caryota mitis - Lesser Fishtail Palm, Clustered Fishtail Palm

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Cabbage, Starch, Sago, Palm heart, Sap A small slender palm and the only representative of this genus in the Philippines which sends up shoots from the base of thetrunk, forming clumps. It forms a cluster of closely spaced stems. It can be 5 m high. The trunks are 5-15 cm...
    Plant Information FPI Sap Palm Varieties Palm Heart Starchy Staples Cabbage Fishtail Palm Lesser Fishtail Palm Edible Seeds Caryota mitis

  5. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Roots Roots and Tubers Tubers Vegetables Starchy Staples Yams as Food Yams Greater Yam Dioscorea alata

  6. 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...
    Starchy Staples Plant Information FPI Oil Cereal Edible Seeds Rice

  7. Dolichos trilobus - Japanese Arrowroot

    Edible Portion: Tubers, Roots, Seeds A bean plant. It is a twining herb. It keeps growing from year to year from root tubers. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets.The leaf stalks are 2-3 cm long. The leaflets are 4 sided and 2-6 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The flowering shoots are in the axilsof...
    Edible Seeds Roots Tubers Arrowroot Starchy Staples Japanese Arrowroot

  8. Gossypium herbaceum - Short-Stable Cotton

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Oil A shrub. It grows 2 m high. The leaf stalk is 2.5-8 cm long. The leaf blade is divided into 5 lobes like the fingers on a hand. Theleaves are 5-10 cm across. The lobes are broad and oval and half the length of the leaf. The flowers occur singly in the axils of...
    Oils Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Cotton Short-Stable Cotton Plant Information FPI Starchy Staples

  9. Eragrostis tef - Teff

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal A millet grass. It is an annual tufted grass. It grows 60-120 cm tall. It has a slender stem and long narrow smooth leaves. Theflowers occur in loose open panicles. These are 15-35 cm long. The branches are very thin and droop over. The seeds are verysmall. They are...
    Plant Information Cereals Edible Seeds FPI Starchy Staples Eragrostis tef Teff

  10. Cordeauxia edulis - Yeheb Nut

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves A small evergreen shrub. It has many stems. It grows to about 1.6 m tall but can grow to 2.5 m tall in good growing conditions.It has a long tap root. The leaves are 3-5 cm long. They are divided into 4 pairs of leaflets. The leaflets are oval and leathery.They are...
    Plant Information FPI Nuts Yeheb Nut Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Starchy Staples