1. Edible Portion: Fruit An evergreen tree. Sometimes it loses its leaves for a short period. It can grow 30 m high. The trunk branches at the top. Theleaves are long and divided into leaflets along the stalk. There are 4-5 oval leaflets which taper to the tip. The flowers are smalland yellow-white....
  2. Edible Portion: Caution A large tree. The bark is grey and has furrows. The leaves are compound with leaflets spread like fingers on hand. There are 5leaflets. The flowers are pink. They are produced before the leaves. It is a tropical plant. It grows in wet, moist and dry forests. It grows from...
  3. Edible Portion:Leaves, Flowers, Spice An annual herb. It grows 1-2 m high. The stems are ribbed. The leaves are compound and alternate or opposite. They are 10-12 cm long with 3-9 leaflets. The leaflets are 1-8 cm long by 5-9 mm wide. The flowers occur in a panicle of heads at the end ofthe...
  4. Edible Portion: Fruit, Bark - drink, Kernel, Nuts, Seed An evergreen tree. It can lose its leaves. It often has buttresses. The bark is smooth and grey. It flakes off in thin strips. Itgrows to 25 m tall and spreads to 4 m across. It has a dense matted fibrous root system. The stem is erect and...
  5. Edible parts -Seeds, Seeds for chocolate, Herb, Flavouring, Spice, Pulp A small evergreen tree. It grows to 15 m tall. Often it is pruned to be only 6 m tall. The trunk is straight for about 90-159 cmabove the ground then a fan arrangement of branches develops. The leaves are large and simple....
  6. Edible Portion: Seeds - oil A tree which loses its leaves. It grows 6-9 m high and spreads 4.5-6 m wide. It has a rounded crown. The leaves are 5-10 cmlong. They are rounded or almost diamond shaped and dull green. The leaves turn orange or red in autumn. The flowers areyellow-green. The fruit...
  7. Edible Portion: Leaves A clambering shrub or creeper. It grows 5-10 m long or longer. The branches hang down. The stems are cylinder shaped and 5-15 cm across. The leaves are alternate and papery and narrowly oval. They are 4-9 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are dulldark green on the upper surface...
  8. Edible Portion: Juice - Flowers, Sap, Seeds, Cabbage, Sago, Starch, Palm Heart A large palm. It grows to 18 m high. It forms one trunk 30 cm across and covered with old leaf bases and black fibres. It hasspines 7.5 cm long. It has long leaves which reach upwards. They have leaflets along the...
  9. Edible Portion: Shoots, Seeds, Cereal A densely tufted bamboo. The culm or stem is 30 m tall. It is 1`5-18 cm across. The wall is very thick. The internodes are 20-40cm long. The stem is bright green. The nodes are slightly swollen. The lower nodes can have aerial roots. There are branchesfrom...
  10. Edible Portion:Flowers A bamboo. It grows 5-10 m tall. The stems are 5-8 cm across. The tips hang down. The internodes are 15-30 cm long.Branches are higher up the stem.