Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,534 Black Nightshade Leaf Medicinal The plants are used as an emollient and analgesic to treat itch, burns and neuralgic pains, and are also considered to be expectorant and laxative. The leaves are said to have sedative and healing properties and are applied to cuts, ulcers, wounds, inflammations and skin diseases. An extract of the leaves and stem is used for treating dropsy, heart diseases, piles, gonorrhoea, fevers, eye diseases and chronic enlargement of liver and spleen. 8,500
1,535 Blue Clitoria Pod Food The young pods are eaten as a vegetable. 8,501
1,536 Blue Clitoria Flower Food The flowers are used to give a blue tinge to rice cakes and boiled rice. 8,501
1,537 Blue Clitoria Leaf Food Young leaves are cooked and used as a vegetable. 8,501
1,538 Blue Clitoria Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover crop. 8,501
1,539 Blue Clitoria Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover crop. 8,501
1,540 Blue Clitoria Whole Medicinal The plant is used in the treatment of snakebites. 8,501
1,541 Blue Clitoria Flower Medicinal The flowers are mixed with water in a preparation used to treat eye problems. 8,501
1,542 Blue Clitoria Root Medicinal The roots are bitter, powerfully cathartic, diuretic and purgative. 8,501
1,543 Celosia Leaf Food Celosia is primarily used as a leafy vegetable. The leaves and tender stems are cooked into soups, sauces or stews with various ingredients. Celosia leaves are tender and break down easily when cooked only briefly. The young inflorescences are also eaten as a potherb. 8,504
1,544 Celosia Whole Medicinal The whole plant is used as an antidote for snakebites and the roots to treat colic, gonorrhoea and eczema. 8,504
1,545 Celosia Leaf Medicinal In China, the leaves are used as medicine in the treatment of infected sores, wounds and skin eruptions. 8,504
1,546 Celosia Seed Medicinal The seeds are used as medicine for diarrhoea, and in Ethiopia the flowers to treat dysentery and muscle troubles. in China and Japan seed extracts have traditionally been used as a therapeutic drug for eye and hepatic diseases. 8,504
1,547 Celosia Whole Ornamental Forms with fasciated, yellow to red inflorescences are widely grown as a bedding plant in gardens and also used as cut flowers. 8,504
1,548 Celosia Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Celosia can also be used as a livestock feed. 8,504
1,549 Love-Lies-Bleeding Whole Ornamental Amaranthus caudatus is widely grown as an ornamental. 2,062
1,550 Love-Lies-Bleeding Seed Food Amaranthus caudatus seeds are toasted and popped, ground into flour or boiled for gruel. For making leavened foods, they must be blended with wheat. 2,062
1,551 Purple Amaranth Grain Food Amaranthus cruentus was domesticated as a pseudo-cereal (grain amaranth) in Central America. Amaranthus cruentus with yellowish white or pale brown seed, is traditionally grown as a cereal crop in Latin America (e.g. Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia). Since colonial times, it has been successfully introduced as a pseudo-cereal in India and Nepal, in mountain areas as well as at lower elevation, and it has become well established as a popular food plant. 2,038
1,552 Purple Amaranth Flower Industrial A red dye can be obtained from the inflorescences. 2,038
1,553 Black Mulberry Fruit Food Eaten raw, cooked or used in preserves 8,548