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Roselle leaves are edible and have a pleasant taste. This plant has good medicinal value. In some areas, it is used as a substitute for Jute. Hirschfeldia incana: Shortpod mustard [116] Honckenya peploides: Sea sandwort: Traditionally used as food by the inhabitants of coastal Subarctic areas [117] Houttuynia cordata: Fishwort
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Leaf vegetables eaten raw in a salad can be called salad greens. Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known.
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Ramps or wild leek (Allium tricoccum) is an onion that produces tasty edible leaves in spring, followed by small white flower clusters in June and July. Tastier than scallions, ramps were once ...
Colocasia esculenta is a perennial, tropical plant primarily grown as a root vegetable for its edible, starchy corm. The plant has rhizomes of different shapes and sizes. Leaves are up to 40 by 25 centimetres (15 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 10 inches) and sprout from the rhizome. They are dark green above and light green beneath.
Gynura procumbens (also known as sabuñgai or sambung nyawa [2] [3]), sometimes called "longevity spinach" or "longevity greens", is an edible vine found in China, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Leaves are ovate-elliptic or lanceolate , 3.5 to 8 centimetres ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 6 in) long, and 0.8 to 3.5 centimetres ( 1 ⁄ 3 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ...
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 ...
Parsnip leaves are sometimes tunnelled by the larvae of the celery fly (Euleia heraclei). Irregular, pale brown passages can be seen between the upper and lower surfaces of the leaves. The effects are most serious on young plants, as whole leaves may shrivel and die. Treatment is by removing affected leaflets, whole leaves, or by chemical means ...