Common Name:White sapote
Description
Casimiroa edulis is an evergreen tree to 18 m tall, with spreading, often drooping branches and a broad leafy crown. Bark light-grey, thick and warty.
Leaves palmately compound, alternate, digitate; stipules absent; petiole 5-9.5 cm, finely pubescent; leaflets sessile or subsessile, 3-7, elliptic, ovate or broadly ovate, 4.5-12 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, retuse or occasionally rounded, base cuneate, margins subserrate, bright green, glabrous or with scattered pubescence on the veins, vennation pinnate, anastomising at the margins. Read more
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Saba comorensis
Common Name:Rubber vines
Description
Saba comorensis is a strong forest liana up to 20 m long on other trees. Stem lenticillate and exuding a white sticky latex when cut.
Leaves ovate or elliptic, base rounded or subcordate, apex obtuse or rounded, 7-16 x 4-8.5 cm, glabrous.Read more
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Solanum nigrum
Common Name: African Nightshade
Description
European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) or locally just black nightshade, duscle, garden nightshade, garden huckleberry, hound’s berry, petty morel, wonder berry, small-fruited black nightshade, or popolo) is a species in the Solanum genus, native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas, Australasia, and South Africa. Parts of this plant can be toxic to livestock and humans. Nonetheless, ripe berries and cooked leaves of edible strains are used as food in some locales, and plant parts are used as a traditional medicine. A tendency exists in literature to incorrectly refer to many of the other “black nightshade” species as “Solanum nigrum”.. . . . .Read more
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Cleome gynandra
Common Name: Spiderplant
Description
Cleome gynandra is a species of Cleome that is used as a green vegetable. It is known by many common names including Shona cabbage[, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat’s whiskers,and stinkweed. It is an annual wildflower native to Africa but has become widespread in many tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. It is an erect, branching plant generally between 25 cm and 60 cm tall. Its sparse leaves are each made up of 3-5 oval-shaped leaflets. The flowers are white, sometimes changing to rose pink as they age. The seed is a brown 1.5mm diameter sphere. The leaves are edible. . . . .Read more
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