Resources Tagged: Plant Information

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  1. Ananas comosus - Pineapple

    Edible Portion:Fruit, Shoots, Vegetable A perennial herb with a rosette of long, thick, spiky leaves up to 1 m high & spreading 1-1.5 m. The leaves are arranged inspirals. Some kinds have thorns along the edges of the leaves. The plant produces suckers both near the base of the stem andalso...
    Perennial Herb Plant Information FPI Vegetables Fruits Herbs Ananas comosus L Pineapple

  2. Acrocomia aculeata - Gru-Gru Palm

    Edible Portion:Kernels, Sap, Fruit, Nuts, Seeds, Cabbage, Young Leaves, Palm Heart, Oil, A single stemmed palm. It is spiny on the trunk. It grows 12 m tall. The trunk is stout and grey. It is 30 cm across. The leaves are feather like. They are 1-2 m long. The fronds are dark green but paler...
    FPI Plant Information Oil Palm Heart Edible Leaves Cabbage Edible Nuts Nuts Edible Seeds Fruits Sap Palm Varieties Palms Gru-Gru Palm Acrocomia aculeata

  3. Anacardium occidentale - Cashew

    Edible Portion: Nuts, Leaves, Fruit pulp, Flavouring, Seeds, Oil A spreading evergreen tree up to 7-14 m tall. It has spreading branches. The canopy can spread 12 m. The roots grow deeply and spread widely. The bark is rough. The trunk is 15-20 cm across. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are...
    Plant Information FPI Oil Edible Seeds Edible Leaves Edible Nuts Nuts Cashew Anacardium occiden...

  4. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Edible Seeds Bael Fruits Breadfruit Artocarpus altilis

  5. Artocarpus heterophyllus

    Edible Portion:Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable An evergreen tree up to 20 m tall and in the breadfruit family. Trees form many branches but have one or two main trunks. The bark is smooth and dark green. Leaves of young trees have 1 or 2 lobes but mature leaves are long (15 cm) and...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetabes Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Fruit Trees Fruits Jackfruit Artocarpus heterop...

  6. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Seeds Vegetables Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Fruits Pawpaw Papaya Carica papaya

  7. 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

  8. Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Comb Fringe Grass

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Cereal, Rhizome, Root An annual grass. The stems are slender. They can lie along the ground. These can form roots at the nodes. They can have runners and form mats. It is 15-60 cm high. The edges of the leaf sheaths have small hairs. The leaf blades are flat and 5-20 cm long...
    Annuals Roots Rhizobium Cereals Edible Seeds Grasses Comb Fringe Grass Plant Information FPI Starchy Staples

  9. 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,...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Leaves Fruits eggplant Solanum melongena

  10. Dimocarpus longan - Longan

    Edible portion: Fruit, Leaves - Tea, Seeds A tree up to 12-40 m high with a low trunk and spreading branches. The tree has a rounded crown. It keeps its leaves throughout the year. The trunk can be 80 cm across. There can be buttresses 2 m tall. The bark is corky. The twigs have 5 faint grooves....
    Plant Information Edible Seeds Edible Leaves FPI Fruits Longan