Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
794 Great Angelica Leaves and petioles Food When boiled in two lots of water they form a vegetable that strongly resembles celery. They can be peeled and eaten in salads or blanched and cooked like asparagus 2,184
795 Hemp Dogbane Seed Food It can be ground into a powder and used as a meal. 2,299
796 Cape Water-hawthorn Flower Food The flowers are used as a flavouring 2,346
797 Swamp Milkweed Flower Food The flower clusters can be boiled down to make a sugary syrup 2,339
798 Showy Milkweed Flower Food Raw or cooked.They taste somewhat like peas.They can be used to thicken soups. 2,337
799 Field Eryngo Root Food Used as a vegetable or candied and used as a sweetmeat 2,220
800 Arracacha Root Food The roots are eaten boiled, as an ingredient in soups and stews, as a puree, roasted or fried in slices. 2,207
801 Arracacha Leaf Food The leaves are used in the same way as celery in raw or cooked salads. 2,207
802 Wodier Bark Food The powdered bark is used as a flavouring. 2,114
803 Wodier Bark Food The gum obtained from the trunk is often used in confectionery 2,114
804 Swamp Corkwood Leaf Food NULL 1,978
805 Ajwain Seed Food Sweeter than oil of thyme, it is used as a flavouring 2,201
806 Ajwain Fruit Food The fruit is usually dried, then roasted and ground into a powder before being used as a spice 2,201
807 Finger Root Fruit Food The Fruit are yellow when ripe and have a sweet pulp which is widely eaten. 2,180
808 Jamun Fruit Food Eaten fresh 1,974
809 Kimpul Root Food They can be peeled, then used in stews, custards and pancakes 2,383
810 Kimpul Leaves and petioles Food Young leaves and petioles - chopped, then cooked and eaten as a spinach 2,383
811 Taro Leaf Food Young leaves - cooked. Some varieties of taro are grown for their leaves, which are very nutritious. They are either used to wrap other food that is baked, or are used as spinach. The leaves must be cooked before eating in order to destroy the calcium oxalate crystals. 2,418
812 Ivy Gourd Fruit Food NULL 1,978
813 Swamp Taro Tuber Food The starchy, underground tubers of C. merkusii are edible after thorough cooking. 2,417