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[1] [3] Its seeds - cocoa beans - are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. [4] Although the tree is native to the tropics of the Americas, the largest producer of cocoa beans in 2022 was Ivory Coast. The plant's leaves are alternate, entire, unlobed, 10–50 cm (4–20 in) long and 5–10 cm (2–4 in) broad.
There are also many wild edible plant stems. In North America, these include the shoots of woodsorrel (usually eaten along with the leaves), chickweeds, galinsoga, common purslane, Japanese knotweed, winter cress and other wild mustards, thistles (de-thorned), stinging nettles (cooked), bellworts, violets, amaranth and slippery elm, among many others.
The leaves of Madhuca indica (= M. longifolia) are fed on by the moth Antheraea paphia, which produces tassar silk, a form of wild silk of commercial importance in India. [5] Leaves, flowers and fruits are also lopped to feed goats and sheep. [6] The seed oil of 'Madhuca indica' can be utilize to synthesize polymer resin.
After three months, the flower heads develop into a fleshy globular multiple fruit (syncarp) joined by their calyces (each flower becoming a fruitlet containing one seed). They are around 4 to 5 cm (1.6 to 2.0 in) in diameter, about the size of a golf ball. [1] The fruit is rugose (wrinkled), brown, and strongly aromatic. The fruits are ...
leaves roots and seeds are also edible: Myrtle: Myrtus communis (and possibly related species) Myrtaceae: shrub or small tree culinary, medicinal, ritual fruit, leaves/twigs Lotus, sacred lotus Nelumbo nucifera: Nelumbonaceae: perennial aquatic herb tea, medicinal leaves, flowers, roots, seeds, fruits Most of the plant is used as food: Catnip ...
Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers. The term is opposed to hardwood , which is the wood from angiosperm trees. The main differences between hardwoods and softwoods is that the softwoods completely lack vessels (pores). [ 1 ]
The leaves are alternate, elliptical, entire, and 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long. The flowers are white, and are produced at the beginning of the rainy season. The fruit is a yellow berry, 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) in diameter, which is edible; it contains one (occasionally two) seed(s). Its latex is used industrially for products such as chicle.
Leaves, boiled as a vegetable, or raw with the shoots if young Seeds, raw or toasted, or ground to flour [37] Spear saltbush, common orache Atriplex patula: Semi-arid deserts and coastal areas in Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa Young leaves and shoots, raw or cooked as a substitute for spinach [8] Ice plant, sour fig: Carpobrotus edulis