Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
814 Node Flower Allmania Leaf Food Cooked and eaten as a vegetable 2,065
815 Sessile Joy Weed Whole Food Alternanthera sessilis are eaten as a cooked vegetable or raw as a salad. 2,071
816 Slender Amaranth Whole Food The main use of Amaranthus blitum is as a cooked leaf vegetable. 2,072
817 False Amaranth Leaves and petioles Food Leaves and young shoots of Digera muricata are locally used as a vegetable. 2,052
818 Parsley Root 'var. tuberosum' Leaf Food Parsley is frequently used as a garnish or as a flavouring in salads and many cooked dishes, but has too strong a flavour to be eaten in quantity for most palates. 2,183
819 Parsley Root 'var. tuberosum' Root Food They can be grated into salads, baked or added to soups. The root is harvested from autumn until new growth commences in the spring. It is hardy enough to be left in the ground during the winter, though can also be harvested in late autumn or early winter and stored in a cool, frost-free place, making sure that it does not dry out. Alternatively, the root can be cut into slices and then dried in a cool oven. The root has a delicious flavour, intermediate between that of celery and parsley but with a nuttier flavour 2,183
820 Sicilian Sumac Fruit Food The immature fruit used as caper substitutes 2,128
821 Terebinth Fruit Food The immature fruit, including the stems, are preserved in vinegar and salt. Known as atsjaar, they are used as a relish to accompany wines served during meals 2,129
822 Field Garlic Leaf Food The young leaves are used as a garlic flavouring in soups and stews, but are inferior to that species. 2,095
823 Wild Garlic Leaf Food The leaves are available from late autumn until the following summer, when used sparingly they make a nice addition to the salad bowl. 2,096
824 Wild Garlic Leaf Food Leaves - raw or cooked.Rather stringy, they are used as a garlic substitute 2,096
825 Wild Garlic Bulb Food Bulbils - raw or cooked. Rather small and fiddly, they have a strong garlic-like flavour 2,096
826 Coconut Fruit Ornamental Coconut palm has also an ornamental value. 2,429
827 Chinese Spinach Leaf Ornamental Forms with bright red and red, yellow and green-coloured leaves are grown throughout the world as ornamentals. 2,031
828 Sugar Beet Leaf Ornamental Forms with strikingly coloured, large leaves are grown as ornamentals. 2,051
829 Purple Amaranth Leaf Ornamental Forms with large bright red inflorescences are widely grown as ornamentals. 2,038
830 Prince's Feather Whole Ornamental Amaranthus hypochondriacus is also grown as an ornamental. 2,037
831 Beetroot Leaf Ornamental Forms with strikingly coloured, large leaves are grown as ornamentals 2,009
832 Eddoe Whole Ornamental Several cultivars are decorative ornamentals. 2,376
833 Oldman Saltbush Whole Ornamental It is recommended for range rehabilitation projects and it is also used as an ornamental shrub in many seaside resorts 2,019