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…
CASHEW
Anacardium occidentale, cashew (caju in Portuguese) is a small tree probably native to the arid and sandy northeast of South America but which is now present in the majority of…
COMMON GRAPE VINE
Many Vitaceae are tendril vines or climbing shrubs whose fruits are berries.They are well represented in arm regions.The genus Vitis comes from the northern hemisphere and is found from America…
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 ,…
BLACK ELDERBERRY
The BLACK ELDERBERRY, SAMBUCUS NIGRA, CAPRIFOLIACEAE is a shrub very widespread in Europe (it tolerates the cold like the heat, the humidity like the drought), it can reach 4 to…
SAPODILLA CHIKOO
The SAPODILLA TREE, MANILKARA ZAPOTA = ACHRAS SAPOTA, SAPOTACEAE, is a fruit tree native to southern Mexico (Yucatan) and the neighboring countries, Belize and Guatemala. It is now widespread in…
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…
RADISH
The large plant family of brassicales or BRASSICACEAE(formerly cruciferous) includes the genus raphanus (mainly the various radishes and wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) and other genera also interesting because they include…
PURSLANE
The PORTULACACEAE are small herbaceous leaves usually fleshy sometimes succulent and whose fruit is a capsule that releases at maturity many very small seeds. COMMON PURSLANE,PORTULACA OLERACEA, is widespread and…