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  1. Pachira glabra - Saba Nut

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Nuts, Vegetable, Leaves A small tree. It grows 17 m high. The trunk is bright green. The leaves have 5-7 leaflets. The leaves have long leaf stalks. The flowers come out at night. They have light green strap-like petals. The stamen are white and curved. The fruit is a green...
    Glabrous pachira Saba Nut Guinea Nut Guinea Chesnut Edible Seeds Edible Leaves FPI Nuts Edible Nuts Vegetable

  2. Ilex cassine - Dahoon Holly

    Edible Portion:Leaves, Leaves - Tea A tree. It grows 8 m tall. It has small sword shaped leaves. They are leathery and have shallow teeth. The leaves are 8-10 cm long. They have soft prickles along the edges. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. The flowers are small and greenish...
    FPI Dahoon Holly Edible Leaves

  3. 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...
    Starchy Staples FPI Plant Information Comb Fringe Grass Grasses Edible Seeds Cereals Rhizobium Roots Annuals

  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...
    Starchy Staples Barley Edible Seeds Cereals FPI Plant Information

  5. 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

  6. 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...
    Starchy Staples JCC Root Crops Roots FPI Plant Information Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetabes Cassava

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Eriobotrya japonica - Loquat

    Edible Portion:Fruit, Seeds - coffee A small evergreen tree up to 6-10 m high. It has a round crown. Leaves are large and strongly ribbed. They are 12-30 cm long and 8-10 cm wide. They are dark green and glossy on the upper surface and woolly white underneath. They are leathery with slight teeth....
    Loquat Fruits Edible Seeds FPI JCC Fruit Trees Plant Information