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ID 1,534
Crop ID Black Nightshade
Part Leaf
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The plants are used as an emollient and analgesic to treat itch, burns and ... more
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.
Metadata ID 8,500
ID 1,535
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Pod
Use Category Food
Notes The young pods are eaten as a vegetable.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,536
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Flower
Use Category Food
Notes The flowers are used to give a blue tinge to rice cakes and boiled rice.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,537
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Leaf
Use Category Food
Notes Young leaves are cooked and used as a vegetable.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,538
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Whole
Use Category Feed (Forage/Fodder)
Notes Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover cr... more
Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover crop.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,539
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Whole
Use Category Feed (Forage/Fodder)
Notes Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover cr... more
Butterfly pea has a reputation as a potential fodder plant, hay or cover crop.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,540
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Whole
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The plant is used in the treatment of snakebites.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,541
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Flower
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The flowers are mixed with water in a preparation used to treat eye problem... more
The flowers are mixed with water in a preparation used to treat eye problems.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,542
Crop ID Blue Clitoria
Part Root
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The roots are bitter, powerfully cathartic, diuretic and purgative.
Metadata ID 8,501
ID 1,543
Crop ID Celosia
Part Leaf
Use Category Food
Notes Celosia is primarily used as a leafy vegetable. The leaves and tender stems... more
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.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,544
Crop ID Celosia
Part Whole
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The whole plant is used as an antidote for snakebites and the roots to trea... more
The whole plant is used as an antidote for snakebites and the roots to treat colic, gonorrhoea and eczema.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,545
Crop ID Celosia
Part Leaf
Use Category Medicinal
Notes In China, the leaves are used as medicine in the treatment of infected sore... more
In China, the leaves are used as medicine in the treatment of infected sores, wounds and skin eruptions.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,546
Crop ID Celosia
Part Seed
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The seeds are used as medicine for diarrhoea, and in Ethiopia the flowers t... more
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.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,547
Crop ID Celosia
Part Whole
Use Category Ornamental
Notes Forms with fasciated, yellow to red inflorescences are widely grown as a be... more
Forms with fasciated, yellow to red inflorescences are widely grown as a bedding plant in gardens and also used as cut flowers.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,548
Crop ID Celosia
Part Whole
Use Category Feed (Forage/Fodder)
Notes Celosia can also be used as a livestock feed.
Metadata ID 8,504
ID 1,549
Crop ID Love-Lies-Bleeding
Part Whole
Use Category Ornamental
Notes Amaranthus caudatus is widely grown as an ornamental.
Metadata ID 2,062
ID 1,550
Crop ID Love-Lies-Bleeding
Part Seed
Use Category Food
Notes Amaranthus caudatus seeds are toasted and popped, ground into flour or boil... more
Amaranthus caudatus seeds are toasted and popped, ground into flour or boiled for gruel. For making leavened foods, they must be blended with wheat.
Metadata ID 2,062
ID 1,551
Crop ID Purple Amaranth
Part Grain
Use Category Food
Notes Amaranthus cruentus was domesticated as a pseudo-cereal (grain amaranth) in... more
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.
Metadata ID 2,038
ID 1,552
Crop ID Purple Amaranth
Part Flower
Use Category Industrial
Notes A red dye can be obtained from the inflorescences.
Metadata ID 2,038
ID 1,553
Crop ID Black Mulberry
Part Fruit
Use Category Food
Notes Eaten raw, cooked or used in preserves
Metadata ID 8,548

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