Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,654 Hausa Potato Whole Ornamental Arrow arum can be used as an ornamental in water or bog gardens. 8,782
1,655 Hausa Potato Whole Environmental Because its root masses often knit together, arrow arum has been used to stabilize submersed sediments. The foliage and stems form a wavedeflecting barrier, and the foliage also provides cover for waterfowl, wading birds, aquatic mammals, and insects. 8,782
1,656 Hausa Potato Tuber Food Native Americans used the dried, pulverized roots as flour for bread. 8,782
1,657 Hausa Potato Fruit Feed (Forage/Fodder) The berries are a food source for wood ducks, king rails, mallards, muskrats, and certain turtles. 8,782
1,658 Endive Leaf Food Endive is most commonly eaten as a fresh green in salads, for which curly-leaved types are often preferred. Plants for salads are sometimes blanched to reduce bitterness. Endive is used as a substitute for lettuce in the tropics as it is more resistant to diseases. 8,781
1,659 Hausa Potato Fruit Food The fruit was sometimes cooked and eaten like peas. 8,782
1,660 Endive Leaf Medicinal The plant is used as a resolvent and cooling medicine, and in the treatment of bilious complaints. It has a similar but milder effect to chicory (Cichorium intybus) and so is a very beneficial tonic to the liver and digestive system. 8,781
1,661 Maize Grain Feed (Forage/Fodder) Feed for livestock and poultry, particularly in the industrialized countries of the temperate zones, providing over twothirds of the total trade in feed grains 8,783
1,662 Maize Grain Industrial Most industrial products are usually obtained by the wetmilling process, in which the grain is steeped, after which the germ and bran are separated from the endosperm. The main product is starch. Oil obtained from the germ is made into soap or glycerine. 8,783
1,663 Hemp/Marijuana 'var. indica' Whole Medicinal Plants are generally cultivated for active ingredients with intoxicating effects in humans; tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and cannabidiol (CBD). 8,788
1,664 Hemp/Marijuana Whole Medicinal Plants are generally cultivated for active ingredients with intoxicating effects in humans; tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and cannabidiol (CBD). 8,788
1,665 Hemp/Marijuana Whole (without root) Fibre Fibres are used to make ropes, canvas and fishnets. 8,789
1,666 Green Arrow Arum Fruit Feed (Forage/Fodder) The berries are eaten by the Wood Duck, Mallard, and King Rail. 8,791
1,667 Fig-leaved Gourd Seed Medicinal The seed complete with the husk is ground into a flour that is made into an emulsion with water and taken as a vermifuge 8,792
1,668 Fig-leaved Gourd Fruit Medicinal Fig-leaved gourd consumption by diabetic patients has a hypoglycaemic effect, making it an appropriate medicine against diabetes mellitus 8,792
1,669 Paper Mulberry Bark Fibre Fibre from the inner bark of paper mulberry has been used to make paper and textile fabric for clothing. 8,798
1,670 Paper Mulberry Bark Industrial The timber is used for furniture, crates, pallets, picture frames and plywood. 8,798
1,671 Paper Mulberry Leaf Food The young leaves are eaten as a steamed vegetable. 8,798
1,672 Paper Mulberry Leaf Feed (Forage/Fodder) The leaves are fed to livestock in Ghana, to pigs in Indo-China and to silkworms in China. 8,798
1,673 Paper Mulberry Leaf Medicinal The leaves are used as a laxative and a diaphoretic. 8,798