The Botanical Cabinet
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Wild rye: Secale strictum ssp.
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals
Job’s tears: Coix lacryma-jobi
Colour: Grey, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Plant milk
Fool’s-water-cress: Helosciadium nodiflorum
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables
Wild garlic: Allium vineale
Colour: Violet, Edible: Shoots and sprouts, Culinary Group: Wild herbs
Chasteberry: Vitex agnus-castus
Colour: Brown, Edible: Fruits, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Elberta Girl Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Elberta Girl’
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Andean sage: Salvia discolor
Colour: Green, Edible: Flowers and buds, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs, Taste: bitter, Taste: aromatic
×Secalotricum
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals
Chestnut Rose (Rosehips): Rosa roxburghii
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits, Culinary Group: Flour substitutes
Beale’s barberry: Mahonia bealei
Colour: Blue, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits, Taste: sour, Taste: bitter
Common silverweed: Argentina anserina
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Edible: Tubers and roots, Culinary Group: Tuber and root vegetables, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables, Culinary Group: Wild herbs, Culinary Group: Flour substitutes, Culinary Group: Famine Food
Sweet granadilla: Passiflora ligularis
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Japanes Knotweed: Fallopia japonica
Colour: Green, Edible: Shoots and sprouts, Culinary Group: Sprouts, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables
Ben oil tree: Moringa oleifera
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Nuts, Culinary Group: Oil plants, Taste: sweet, Taste: nutty
Delicata squash: Cucurbita pepo var. pepo ‘Bush Delicata’
Colour: Multicoloured, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables, Taste: nutty, Taste: watery
Black locust leaves: Robinia pseudoacacia
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Brassica and leaf vegetables, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables
Black locust-Flowers: Robinia pseudoacacia
Colour: White, Edible: Flowers and buds, Culinary Group: Inflorescence vegetables, Culinary Group: Wild herbs
Furrowed bitter orange: Citrus × aurantium ‘Canaliculata’
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
Java apple: Syzygium samarangense
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Creeping cinquefoil: Potentilla reptans
Colour: Green, Colour: Yellow, Edible: Flowers and buds, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Wild herbs
Stone pine: Pinus pinea (Pine nuts)
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Nuts
Bengal quince: Aegle marmelos
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Applecactus: Harrisia pomanensis
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits, Taste: sweet
Furrowed Lemon: Citrus × limon ‘Canaliculata’
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
Cornelian cherry: Cornus mas
Colour: Green, Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Stone fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits, Culinary Group: Coffee substitutes
Drumstick tree: Moringa oleifera
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Tree tumbo: Welwitschia mirabilis
Colour: Multicoloured, Edible: Flowers and buds, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables, Culinary Group: Famine Food
Sweet violet: Viola odorata
Colour: Violet, Edible: Flowers and buds, Culinary Group: Wild herbs, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Indian sandbur: Cenchrus biflorus
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Famine Food
Barilla plant: Salsola soda
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Brassica and leaf vegetables, Culinary Group: Plant ashes, Taste: salty
Citron: Citrus medica ‘Maxima’
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Sponge gourd: Luffa aegyptiaca
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Yellow nutsedge: Cyperus esculentus
Colour: Brown, Edible: Tubers and roots, Culinary Group: Nuts, Culinary Group: Oil plants, Culinary Group: Plant milk, Culinary Group: Flour substitutes
Green Santolina: Santolina virens
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs
Crowfoot-grass: Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Famine Food
Bilberry cactus: Myrtillocactus geometrizans
Colour: Violet, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits
Padi oats: Gnetum gnemon
Colour: Red, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Nuts, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Hairy love grass: Eragrostis pilosa
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals
Pink peppercorn: Schinus molle
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours, Taste: sweet, Taste: spicy
Meyer lemon: Citrus × meyeri
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Mexican Pepperleaf: Piper auritum
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs
Guaraná: Paullinia cupana
Colour: Magenta, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Stimulants
Bath Asparagus: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
Colour: Green, Edible: Shoots and sprouts, Culinary Group: Sprouts, Taste: neutral
Yeddo hawthorn: Rhaphiolepis umbellata
Colour: Black, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Flour substitutes, Culinary Group: Famine Food
Belgian endive: Cichorium intybus var. foliosum
Colour: Magenta, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Brassica and leaf vegetables, Taste: bitter, Taste: watery
Common oat: Avena sativa
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Plant milk
Pandan leaf: Pandanus amaryllifolius
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Crab apple ‘Butterball’: Malus ‘Butterball’
Colour: Multicoloured, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Pome fruits, Taste: sweet
Indigo rose tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Indigo Rose’
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Red lemon: Citrus limonimedica ‘Pigmentata’
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
