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...
Edible Portion: Leaves - Tea, Herb, Spice An evergreen tree up to 10-15 m high and with slender thorns. It spreads to 5 m across. The stem is stout and erect. It iscovered with smooth greyish-brown bark. The leaf stalks have broad wings. The leaves are glossy green, oval and 10 cm long.The leaves...
Edible Portion:Fruit, Herb, Spice, Flowers A small evergreen tree with short spines. It grows to 7 m high and spreads to 3 m across. It branches freely. Young branchesare often reddish. Leaves are about 5-12 cm long. They are green and drawn out to a point, with notched edges. The leaf stalkis...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Herb, Spice, Leaves A small evergreen tree. It grows up to 3-5 m high and spreads to 2 m across. The stem is stout, erect and thorny. The leavesare green and 20 cm x 10 cm. The tree has fat spines. The leaves have teeth along the edge. The leaf stalk does not havewings. The...
Edible Portion:Fruit, Herb, Fruit Skin, Spice, Flowers An evergreen tree up to 8-10 m high. It spreads to 4 m across. The stem is short, stout and spiny. It has a dense, roundedcrown. The leaves are dark green, sword shaped and tapering towards the tip. They are 5-15 cm long. The leaves have a...
Edible parts -Leaves, Herb, Spice, Vegetable, Seeds - oil A cabbage family herb. It is an annual plant about 60 cm high. It has narrowly lobed leaves. The leaves near the base havelong stalks and the leaves higher on the plant do not have stalks. The flowers are small and white. The fruit is a...
Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Herb, Spice, Leaves - tea An evergreen shrub. It grows to 3-5 m high and spreads to 3 m across. The stem is slender and the branches are flexible. Theleaves are glossy green, oblong, and tapering towards the tip. They occur opposite each other and have easy to see...
Edible Portion: Root, Seeds, Pods, Leaves, Vegetable A herb. It is an upright hairy bean plant which can be 1 m tall. It has many branches. The leaves have 3 leaflets and are darkgreen. The leaves are on long leaf stalks. There are oval stipules at the base of the leaf. Flowers are pale yellow...
Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Herb, Vegetable, Bulb, Sprouts An onion like plant without a bulb and with flat leaves. It grows one year, then flowers the next. There is one bulb. There can bebulblets. The covering is white. The leaves are flattened and vary from 40-100 cm long by 1.2-2.5...
Edible Portion: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Bulb, Herb, Spice, Vegetable An onion family plant. It is a herb which grows one year, then flowers the next. It is up to 30 cm tall. A narrow leafed onionwhich forms dense clumps. The leaves are hollow and narrow. They are 10-25 cm long by 0.1 cm in cross...