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An Easy Way To Grow Potatoes in Your Garden

An excellent way to produce all the spuds you and your family will need.  This is a great way to produce potatoes for your home and is way more environmentally friendly than purchasing super market...

Tropical Wild Edibles - Pomegranate

Botanical name: Punica granatum Common names: Pomegranate, Family: Lythraceae (Photo: Augustus Binu) Physical appearance:  A deciduous shrub that grows to between 5 and 10 meters in height. The p...

Tropical Wild Edibles - The Cho-Cho Fruit

Botanical name: Sechium edule Common names: Cho-cho, christophene, mango squash, mirliton, pear squash, vegetable pear, choko, pepinella, pepinello, xuxu, xoxo Family: Cucurbitaceae Physical appea...

Tropical Wild Edibles - The Coconut Tree

Botanical name: Cocus nusifera Common names: The Coconut Tree, Coconut, Coco nut, Family: Arecaecea Physical Appearance and Character: A medium palm growing up to 30 metres in height. It reaches ...

Tropical Wild Edibles- The Sapodilla

Botanical name: Manilkara zapota Common names: Sapodilla, sapota, Chikoo, Chico, Naseberry, Nispero, mispel Family: Sapotaceae Physical appearance:  A tropical evergreen tree growing to a maximum ...

Tropical Wild Edibles - Osage Orange

Botanical name: Maclura pomifera Common names: Osage orange, horse apple, hedge, hedge apple tree, bowwood tree, bois d’arc, monkey brains, monkey ball, yellow-wood and mock orange. Family: Not in ...

Tropical Wild Edibles - The Avocado

Botanical name: Persea americana Common names: Avocado, Avocado Pear, Alligator Pear Family: Lauraceae, the “Laurels”.   Physical Appearance: A medium sized tree that grows up to 20 metres in heig...

Tropical Wild Edibles - Black Sapote

Botanical name: Diospyros nigra Common names: Chocolate pudding fruit, the black sapote, black soapapple, zapote prieto.     Physical Appearance: A medium sized evergreen tree with black bark, gro...

Tropical Wild Edibles - Jabuticaba

Botanical name: Plinia cauliflora Common names: Brazilian grapetree, jaboticaba, jabuticaba Physical Appearance: A relatively small, slow to grow evergreen that can reach a height of up to 15 metr...

Wild Poisonous Plant Of Week 11- Dumb Cane

Botanical name: dieffenbachia Common name: Dumb Cane, Mother in Law’s Tongue Distribution: Originates in South America, Argentina and the West Indies. Was brought over to the UK as an ornamental pl...