AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT
AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT OR HIBISCUS MANIHOT food and dietary plant with its edible leaves and medicinal plant easy to cultivate Pacific cabbage or aibika, bele or pele in the South…
JAMBULAN SYZYGIUM CUMINII
JAMBUL JAMBULAN, SYZYGIUM CUMINII SYZYGIUM CUMINII, Malabar plum, Java plum, jambolan is native to India, it has had several botanical names: Syzygium jambolanum, Eugenia cumini, Eugenia jambolana.It has been introduced…
THE CANDLENUT TREE
THE CANDLENUT TREE or MOLUCCAN WALNUT TREE,or Indian walnut, Aleurites moluccanus (or moluccana), is an Euphorbiaceae native to South-East Asia, it has been introduced into the majority of tropical-equatorial countries…
BITTER LEAF VERNONIA
The ASTERACEAE, are an immense family of flowering plants which contains several hundred botanical genera including the genus Vernonia = Gymnanthenum which also includes hundreds of species in Asia ,…
BREADFRUIT
Moraceae are essentially trees of hot regions, rarely herbs or shrubs; there are 60 genera and more than 1000 species.Almost all of these plants secrete a white or colorless, sometimes…
TEA TREE
The TEA TREE, MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA, MYRTACEAE is endemic to areas of eastern Australia (north of New South Wales to Queensland).It has been introduced in countries with a similar climate (USA,…
TAMARIND
Indigenous to Africa, the TAMARIND TREE,TAMARINDUS INDICA, CAESALPINIACEAE, is found in the wild in dry savannahs; it was introduced a long time ago in India then dispersed by the Arabs…
TAMANU TEMANU
Tropical-equatorial plants, CLUSIASEAE are essentially trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytes, "strangling" their support and developing aerial roots (genus Clusia). Most often large trees in the rainforest, swampy coasts or along…
PLANTAIN
There are several hundred species of PLANTAIN, PLANTAGINACEAE, around the world. Plantains from temperate regions are common perennials but adaptable to tropical or subtropical climates, they are therefore found all…
PASSION FLOWER PASSION FRUIT
The PASSIFLORACEAE include a few hundred species, the majority of them (around 400) of the genus Passiflora. They are found in the wild mainly in the New World, very few…