Middelen Tagged: Tubers

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  1. Ipomoea batatas - Sweet Potato

    Edible Portion: Tuber, Root, Leaves, Vegetable This is a root crop which produces long creeping vines. The leaves are carried singly along the vine. Leaves can vary considerably from divided like fingers on a hand to being entire and rounded or heart shaped. At the end of the vine, trumpet shaped...
    Plant Information FPI Tubers Roots and Tubers Roots Starchy Staples Sweet Potato Vegetables Edible Leaves

  2. Roots, tubers, plantains, and bananas in human nutrition.

    Key Resource This book provides and extensive overview of all aspects of these much-neglected crops, ranging from their history, popularization and production to their nutritional value and potential toxcity.
    Tubers Roots Plantains Bananas

  3. Utilization of tropical foods: roots and tubers

    01-01-1989 Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.
    Tubers Tropical crops Root Crops

  4. Buried Treasures: Tasty Tubers of the World - How to Grow and Enjoy Root Vegetables, Tubers, Rhizomes, and Corms

    01-01-2007 Learn about the fascinating culinary history of these tasty staples, and gather tips for growing some of these unusual plants in your garden or in containers.The book describes more than 30 tropical and hardy tubers that are easy to grow, great to look at, and delicious to eat.Recipes from around...
    Tubers Root Crops

  5. The Tropical Tuber Crops: Yams, Cassava, Sweet Potato, cocoyams

    01-01-1978 In writing this book, Dr. Onwueme's purpose has been to provide a detailed account of the major tropical tuber crops which form a substantial part of the staple diet of people living in the tropics. Traditional and more recent methods of production are discussed and analysed. In addition,...
    Tubers Root Crops Tropical crops

  6. 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

  7. Asparagus racemosus - Climbing Asparagus

    Edible Portion:Root, Tubers, Shoots, Fruit, Leaves, Vegetable, Leaves - Tea, Flower A creeping or climbing herb or shrub. It has woody stems. It grows 2 m high. It spreads 2 m wide. The stems are slender andtrailing. The leaves are light green and narrow. They are 5 cm long. The flowers are very...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Vegetables Fruits Roots and Tubers Tubers Roots

  8. Canna indica - Indian Shot

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Root, Rhizome, Tubers, Vegetable, Flowers A broad leafed plant with purple leaf sheaths. It is about 1.5 to 2.5 m high. It grows as a perennial. The stems are in clusters.The leaves are large and smooth. They are dark green but can be reddish in some varieties. The leaf...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Vegetables Rhizobium Roots and Tubers Tubers Roots Fruits Indian Shot

  9. Dioscorea trifida - Sweet Yam

    Edible Portion: Tubers, Vegetable, Root A yam vine. The stem is square in cross section and does not have spines. The leaves are 25 cm long. They are opposite. Theleaf is divided like fingers on a hand into 3 or more segments. The male flower is on a long stalk and the female flower stalk is...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Tubers Roots Roots and Tubers Yams as Food Yams Sweet Yam Dioscorea trifida

  10. Sphenostylis stenocarpa - African Yam Bean

    Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Tubers, Root, Pods, Vegetable A vigorous climbing vine. It is a herb that grows 1.5-2 m high. The leaves have 3 leaflets. They are 14 cm long and 5 cm wide. The flowers are pink, purple or greenish-white. They are 2.5 cm long. They are on stout stalks in the axils...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Pods Roots Roots and Tubers Tubers Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Legumes as Food Legumes African Yam Bean