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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OLIVE TREE OLIVE OIL
The OLIVE TREE, OLEA EUROPAEA (OLEA EUROPEA), OLEACEAE, is a domesticated variety of the oleaster, a plant endemic to the Mediterranean area. It is, moreover, an unfixed species of which…
COMMON WALNUT BLACK WALNUT
Walnut trees, JUGLANDACEAE, are large trees found on all continents and of which there are about twenty species. There was a walnut tree in Europe but it did not survive…