The Botanical Cabinet
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True laurel: Laurus nobilis
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Fingerroot: Boesenbergia rotunda
Colour: Brown, Edible: Tubers and roots, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Love-in-a-mist: Nigella damascena
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Higan cherry: Prunus subhirtella ‘Pendula-Rubra’
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Stone fruits
Striped bitter orange: Citrus × aurantium ‘Fasciata’ (ripe)
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Black chokeberry: Aronia melanocarpa
Colour: Black, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Pome fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Jabuticaba: Plinia cauliflora
Colour: Black, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Winter’s Blackberry: Rubus winteri
Colour: Black, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Pear lemon: Citrus × lumia ‘Pyriformis’
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
Common wild oat: Avena fatua
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Plant milk, Culinary Group: Coffee substitutes
Chinese mint shrub: Elsholtzia stauntonii
Colour: Violet, Colour: Green, Edible: Flowers and buds, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs
Sour cherry: Prunus cerasus
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Stone fruits
Star-Ruby-Grapefruit: Citrus × paradisi ‚Star Ruby‘
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
Common medlar: Mespilus germanica
Colour: Brown, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Pome fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Finger lime: Citrus australasica
Colour: Green, Colour: Brown, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits, Culinary Group: Bush food
Green Zebra (striped tomato): Solanum lycopersicum ‘Green Zebra’
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Canary arbutus: Arbutus canariensis
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Green Rice: Oryza sativa (unripe)
Colour: Green, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals
Pearl millet: Pennisetum glaucum
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals
Pomegranate: Punica granatum
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits
Golden marigold: Tagetes tenuifolia
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Flowers and buds, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs
Striped Eggplant: Solanum melongena var. esculentum ‘Rotonda bianca sfumata di rosa’
Colour: Violet, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Date-plum: Diospyros lotus
Colour: Brown, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits, Culinary Group: Sugar plants
Redcurrant: Ribes rubrum
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits
Damask rose: Rosa x damascena ‘Rose de Resht’
Colour: Magenta, Edible: Flowers and buds, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
Sweet marjoram: Origanum majorana
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs, Culinary Group: Spices and flavours
European bladdernut: Staphylea pinnata
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Nuts, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Bog bilberry: Vaccinium uliginosum
Colour: Blue, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Rowanberry: Sorbus aucuparia
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Urad bean: Vigna mungo (unripe pulses)
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Pheasant berry: Leycesteria formosa
Colour: Brown, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits, Taste: sweet, Taste: bitter, Taste: aromatic
Amanatsu: Citrus natsudaidai
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits, Taste: sour
Conspicuous blackberry: Rubus conspicuus
Colour: Black, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Soft fruits
Common dogwood: Cornus sanguinea
Colour: Black, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
African horned melon: Cucumis metulliferus
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits, Taste: sweet
Brown gram: Vigna mungo (seeds)
Colour: Green, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Legumes
Childing orange: Citrus × aurantium ‘Foetifera’
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
Maule’s quince: Chaenomeles japonica
Colour: Yellow, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Pome fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Bitter melon: Momordica charantia (ripe)
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits
Bitter melon: Momordica charantia (unripe)
Colour: Green, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Leaves of the bitter melon: Momordica charantia
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Brassica and leaf vegetables
Barth’s rice: Oryza barthii
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Taste: neutral
City-goosefoot: Oxybasis urbica
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Brassica and leaf vegetables, Culinary Group: Wild vegetables
Gezahnte tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Gezahnte Buhrer Keel’
Colour: Red, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Fruit vegetables
Field mushroom: Agaricus campestris
Colour: Brown, Edible: Mushrooms
Hongkong-Kumquat: Citrus hindsii
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Citrus fruits
European dewberry: Rubus caesius
Colour: Blue, Edible: Fruits, Culinary Group: Wild fruits
Copper Canyon daisy: Tagetes lemmonii
Colour: Green, Edible: Leaves and herbs, Culinary Group: Kitchen herbs
Deleb palm: Borassus aethiopum
Colour: Orange, Edible: Fruits, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Nuts, Culinary Group: Tropical fruits, Culinary Group: Stimulants
Hulless-threshing einkorn: Triticum sinskajae
Colour: Brown, Edible: Seeds and kernels, Culinary Group: Cereals, Culinary Group: Stimulants
