Recursos Tagged: Vegetables

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  1. The harvest gardener: growing for maximum yield, prime flavor, and garden-fresh storage

    01/01/1992 The author recounts the pleasure of serving home-grown vegetables during the winter months and provides instructions on how to accomplish this in your own garden. 2 Copies
    Vegetable gardening Organic gardening Vegetables

  2. 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...
    Edible Leaves Vegetables Sweet Potato Starchy Staples Roots Roots and Tubers Tubers FPI Plant Information

  3. 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...
    Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Oil Vegetables Niger Seed FPI Plant Information

  4. Colocasia esculenta - Taro

    Edible Portion:Corm, Leaves, Stalks, Vegetable, Root, Flowers This plant has large flat leaves on the end of upright leaf stalks. It grows up to 1 m high. The leaf stalk or petiole joins the leaf towards the centre of the leaf. The leaves are 20-50 cm long. Near the ground a thickened rounded...
    Taro Starchy Staples Edible Leaves Vegetables Roots Edible Flowers FPI Plant Information

  5. Cyphomandra betacea - Tree Tomato

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Vegetable This is a small fruit tree or shrub in the tomato and tobacco family. It grows as a shrub with soft wood and it grows up to 4 m high. The stem is 5-10 cm across. It is brittle and shallow rooted. The leaves are large (25 cm x 12 cm) and soft. They are heart...
    Tree Tomato Cyphomandra betacea Fruits Edible Seeds Vegetables Tomatoes FPI Plant Information

  6. Momordica cochinchinensis - Gac

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Vegetable, Fruit, Spice A pumpkin family plant. It is a coarse vine up to 15 m long. It keeps growing from year to year. It has tuberous roots. It climbs by means of tendrils. It is slightly hairy. The leaves are 8 to 18 cm long, and 8-20 cm across and deeply 3 lobed and...
    Gac FPI Edible Leaves Vegetables Fruits Spices Plant Information

  7. Solanum melongena - Eggplant

    Edible portion:Fruit, Leaves, Vegetable A perennial shrubby herb up to 1 m tall. It is often grown as an annual. It has a deep taproot and branched side roots. The stem is thick and covered with many woolly hairs. The plant has many branches. Often the plant is spiny. The leaves are large,...
    Solanum melongena eggplant Fruits Edible Leaves Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  8. Carica papaya - Pawpaw

    Edible Portion:Fruit, Flowers, Leaves, Vegetable, Seeds - spice Pawpaw is one of the very well known fruits of the tropics. The straight soft stemmed plant grows up to 3-5 metres tall and only occasionally has branches. The stem is softly woody and has scars from fallen leaves along it. At the...
    Carica papaya Papaya Pawpaw Fruits Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Vegetables Edible Seeds FPI Plant Information

  9. Artocarpus altilis - Breadfruit

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable A large tree up to 20-26 m in height. The trunk can be 6 m tall before branching. The trunk can be up to 1 m across. It is an evergreen tree but can lose its leaves in dry weather. The leaves are large and vary in the amount the leaves are...
    Artocarpus altilis Breadfruit Bael Fruits Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables FPI Plant Information

  10. Agave americana - Agave

    Edible Portion:Flower Stalk, Seeds, Shoots, Drink, Sap, Pith, Vegetable A perennial plant up to 7.5 m tall and 2.5 m wide. It does not have a trunk and has suckers. The plants have a very sharp and tough spine at the tip of each leaf. The leaves are grey-green and occur in rings at the base....
    Agave Edible Flowers Edible Seeds Sap Vegetables Perennials