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Stems and leaves, raw or cooked [45] Dandelion: Taraxacum officinale: Native to Eurasia, naturalized elsewhere: Leaves, edible raw or cooked when older [46] Stinging nettle: Urtica dioica: Very common in Europe and Asia, less common in North America: Young shoots and leaves (until May), edible after soaking or boiling as a vegetable, or as a ...
Sterculia quadrifida, also known as the peanut tree, monkey nut [3] or red-fruited kurrajong is a small tree that grows in some forests of New Guinea and Australia. Description [ edit ]
Grains can be consumed in a variety of ways, all of which require husking and cooking, including whole, rolled, puffed, or ground into flour. Many cereals are present or past staple foods, providing a large fraction of the calories in the places in which they are eaten. Today, cereals provide almost half of all calories consumed in the world. [3]
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.
Some popular trees commonly used as fall decor are Japanese maple, birch, beech, and various fruit trees. Shrubs can provide colorful leaves just like trees, but can also serve as a more visually ...
Leaves, stems, and green unripe fruit of the tomato plant also contain small amounts of the poisonous alkaloid tomatine, [36] although levels are generally too small to be dangerous. [36] [37] Ripe tomatoes do not contain any detectable tomatine. [36] Tomato plants can be toxic to dogs if they eat large amounts of the fruit or chew the plant ...
Various peanut varieties can also have potentially harmful additional ingredients. For instance, "you could quickly exceed the daily recommended sodium intake by eating salted peanuts," says ...
Pachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to Central and South America where it grows in swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Monguba (), Pumpo and Jelinjoche and is commercially sold under the names Money tree and Money plant.