Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
553 European Cranberry Fruit Food It is also cultivated as a fruit crop. 7,937
554 European Cranberry Fruit Medicinal The mature fruits are eaten fresh or dried as a remedy for diarrhoea and as a treatment for sore throats, coughs and colds. 7,937
555 European Cranberry Leaf Beverages A tea is made from the leaves. This should not be drunk on a regular basis because it contains the toxin 'arbutin'. 7,937
556 European Cranberry Whole Ornamental It is also cultivated as a fruit crop and is sometimes grown as an ornamental, where it can be used to form a ground cover. 7,937
557 European Cranberry Leaf Industrial A yellow dye is obtained from the leaves and stems. 7,937
558 Heather Flower Medicinal The flowering shoots are antiseptic, astringent, cholagogue, depurative, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, mildly sedative and vasoconstrictor. An infusion of the flowering shoots is used in the treatment of coughs, colds, bladder and kidney disorders, cystitis. 7,938
559 Heather Flower Beverages A kind of mead was once brewed from the flowers and the young shoots have been used instead of hops to flavour beer. 7,938
560 High-bush Blueberry Fruit Food The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. As well as being eaten raw, it is prepared in a wide range of ways. It can be smoke-dried, sun-dried, boiled, and baked in pies, pastries, cereals, jellies etc. The fruit can also be dried and used like raisins. 7,939
561 High-bush Blueberry Leaf Beverages A tea is made from the leaves and dried fruit. 7,939
562 High-bush Blueberry Leaf Medicinal The leaves are astringent, antiinflammatory, blood purifier. An infusion is used in the treatment of sore throats and other inflammations of the mouth or mucous membranes of the throat, as well as in the treatment of infant's colic. 7,939
563 Strawberry Tree Fruit Food The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Sweet but insipid. It does have a somewhat gritty skin, but the fruit itself has the texture of a lush tropical fruit and has a delicate pleasant flavour. For those people with sensitive taste buds, this is a fruit that can be enjoyed when eaten in moderate quantities. 7,940
564 Strawberry Tree Whole Medicinal The leaves, bark and root are astringent and diuretic. They are also a renal antiseptic and so are of use in the treatment of affections of the urinary system such as cystitis and urethritis. 7,940
565 Strawberry Tree Wood Industrial The wood makes a good charcoal. The wood is used for turning, making Greek flutes etc. 7,940
566 Black Crowberry Fruit Food The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. It can taste slightly acid or insipid. 7,941
567 Black Crowberry Leaf Medicinal The leafy branches have been used, especially for children with a fever, as a diuretic. A decoction of the leaves and stems, mixed with Hudson Bay tea and young spruce tree tips, has been used in the treatment of colds. 7,941
568 Black Crowberry Fruit Industrial A purple dye is obtained from the fruit. 7,941
569 Bog Blueberry Fruit Food The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit is cooked and used to make jams, jellies, pie fillings etc, and can also be dried and used like raisins. 7,942
570 Bog Blueberry Fruit Medicinal The fruit contains tannins, anthocyanoside, and flavonoids. A cold infusion of the dried fruit is used in the treatment of mucous membrane inflammation of the gastric and intestinal tract; diarrhoea, and bladder complaints. 7,942
571 Coca Leaf Leaf Medicinal The leaves are also used to make various preparations that are employed in modern medicine. Widely used as the source of the street drug cocaine, the leaves have long been used by local people as a stimulant to overcome hunger and exhaustion. An infusion of the leaves serves also as remedy for altitude sickness, the feared 'soroche'. 7,944
572 African Nut Tree Seed Oil (Food) The seeds of Ricinodendron heudelotii are widely used in cooking in West and Central Africa. An edible oil is extracted from the seeds and a paste made by crushing dried kernels is sometimes used as a thickening agent for soups and stews. 7,946