Resources Tagged: Starchy Staples

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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. 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...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Roots Vegetables Edible Leaves Starchy Staples Taro

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets

    Some 3 billion people in the world live outside the cash economy in the world’s poorest nations. Food security and regular supply are their daily concerns. Chronic malnutrition is a leading cause of death and disease for them. Young children are amongst the most affected. One child every 5-10...
    Herbs Seeds Nuts Leafy Greens Fruits Legumes as Food Legumes Starchy Staples Vegetables Bamboo Plant Information Technical Publicat... FPS FPI

  6. 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

  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. Manihot esculenta - Cassava

    Edible Portion: Root, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable A plant which can re-grow year after year from the thickened roots. It has several stems. The stems are woody and have some branches. Plants grow up to 2 or 3 metres high. Stalks have distinct scars where leaves have fallen. The leaves tend to be...
    Cassava Vegetabes Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Plant Information FPI Roots Root Crops JCC Starchy Staples

  9. 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

  10. 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