Resources Tagged: Fpi

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  1. Psidium guajava - Guava

    Edible portion : Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, - Seeds-oil, Flowers, Roots A small tree or shrub 8-10 m high. It is evergreen. It has smooth bark which is mottled. The bark peels off in smooth flakes. The plant branches close to the ground. The branches are four angled. Trees are shallow rooted. The...
    Guava Fruit Tree Fruit Shrub FPI Roots Roots and Tubers Edible Seeds Seed Oil Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Food Plants

  2. Lycium barbarum - Goji Berry

    Edible portions: Fruit, Leaves, Flowers - pistil A deciduous shrub or vine. It can be erect or spreading. It grows 3 m high. The branches are weak and arching. The side branches end in short leafless spines. It forms suckers freely. The leaves are oval and grey-green and taper to the tip. They...
    Goji Berry Fruit Shrub FPI Fruits Edible Flowers Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  3. Eugenia involucrata - Cherry of the Rio Grande

    Edible portion : Fruit A small tree. It grows 5-8 m high. It grows 10-15 m high in forest. The crown is oval. The trunk is 30-40 cm across. The bark is thin and peels off. The leaves are simple and opposite. They have short leaf stalks. They are 5-9 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. The flowers occur...
    Fruit Trees Cherry FPI Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  4. Cnidoscolus aconitifolius - Chaya, Tree Spinach

    Edible portion: Leaves, Vegetable A shrub. It can grow 2 m tall. It can be a tree up to 7 m tall. It is a small densely shady, rounded tree. The central stem is about 10 cm across. The side branches are 2 cm thick and end abruptly. The cut stem exudes latex. Some varieties have stinging hairs on...
    Chaya Tree Spinach FPI Edible Leaves Vegetables Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  5. Sauropus androgynus - Sweet Leaf

    Edible portion : Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable A low growing shrub with small red flowers. It continues to grow from year to year. It grows 0.8-2 m tall. It can grow 6 m tall. It tends to grow upright then falls over due to its weight. It branches little. Compound leaves on the sides of the...
    Sweet Leaf FPI Edible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables Fruits Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  6. Calathea allouia - Guinea Arrowroot

    Edible portions : Tubers, Root, Flowers, Leaves - flavour, Vegetable POW update to Goeppertia from Calathea A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1.5 m high. It has an underground rhizome or stem. There are several large leaves. The leaf is oblong and 20-60 cm long by 5-20 cm wide....
    Roots Roots and Tubers Eible Leaves Edible Flowers Vegetables Arrowroot FPI

  7. Averrhoa bilimbi - Bilimbi

    Edible portion : Fruit, Flowers, Spice A small evergreen tree up to 7-10 m high. It can spread 3 m across. The stem is erect and short. Leaves are large. Leaves have from 5 to 17 or 34 pairs of leaflets. Leaves are pale green. The leaves are often clustered near the branch tips. Flowers are...
    Bilimbi FPI Fruits Edible Flowers Spices Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  8. Garcinia aristata - Cuban Mangosteen

    Edible portion : Fruit A small tree. The leaves are dark and glossy with a hard spiny tip. The fruit are small and yellow. They have a white slightly sweet pulp. There are 1 or 2 large seeds. A tropical plant. It is cold hardy down to 0C. It can tolerate salty conditions. It suits lime soils.
    Mangosteen Fruits FPI Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl... Plant Information

  9. Thamnocalamus spathiflorus - Spathe bamboo

    Shoots Edible parts -Seeds, a bamboo grass. It has a rhizome neck 6 cm long. The culms are 3-4 m tall and 1-2 cm wide. The internodes are 15-18 cmlong. There are 3-6 branches.em, Cereal, Shoots
    Bamboo Sprout Bamboo FPI Edible Seeds Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  10. Schizostachyum blumei - Tamiyang bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A bamboo. It has short rhizomes. The stems are erect and arching over. They hang down at the tip. They are 3-7 m tall and 1-2 cm across. The internodes are 30 cm long. The sheaths on the stems are sword shaped or curved back. They have whitehairs. The leaves are sword...
    Bamboo Bamboo Sprout FPI Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...