AFRICAN PEAR NSAFU
The AFRICAN PEAR or BUSH BUTTER TREE, DACRYODES EDULIS, BURSERACEAE, is a tree with edible oleaginous fruits which grows naturally in Central Africa in the humid tropico-equatorial zone from sea…
CHILI PEPPER BELL PEPPER
According to botanists there are different species of CAPSICUM (SOLANACEAE) domesticated by humans, but there are disagreements on their classification. CAPSICUM ANNUUM A distinction is usually made between CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS(chili…
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…
PAPAYA PAPAW
PAPAYA tree, CARICA PAPAYA, CARICACEAE, belongs to a genus, "carica", which now has only one species, "papaya". Caricaceae belong to a plant family of African origin but whose ancestors have…
BITTER ORANGE SWEET ORANGE
RUTACEAE include about 130 genera and more than 1500 species of trees or shrubs mainly from warm regions. The leaves of rutaceae are often punctuated with small vesicular inclusions containing…
PRICKLY PEAR
OPUNTIA are CACTACEAE = cacti with hundreds of species all native to America. Opuntia species are found from Patagonia to Alaska, but it is in the dry and warm regions…
BLUEBERRY CRANBERRY
Perennial plants, shrubs or bushy shrubs in cold and humid regions but also tropical plants developing on mountainous slopes, ERICACEAE are robust, not very demanding on the quality of the…
BLACKBERRY RASPBERRY
The BLACKBERRY and related species, RASPBERRY,DEWBERRY,BRAMBLE, (ROSACEAE), are found on small bushy shrubs spread worldwide but most frequently encountered in temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere including North…
BITTER GOURD KARELA
Like squash, cucumber, melon, watermelon , BITTER GOURD ( karela in India ) is a climbing or creeping plant.There are around sixty species of momordica originating from the old world…
MANGO
The MANGO tree, MANGIFERA INDICA, ANACARDIACEAE, is native to the forests of the Indo-Burman region, it is cultivated in the Indian subcontinent for several thousand years, the Portuguese introduced it…