Plant With Edible Parts Seeds For Sale In Allentown

It is by no means a disagreeable vegetable. The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. * The young shoots are eaten cooked. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality...

She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth". * These curiosities are well worth growing, if only for the conversation factor! * The buds are known as "buzz buttons", "Szechuan buttons", "sansho buttons",...

* A good green manure plant, producing a lot of bulk for incorporation into the soil. The medicinal parts of the plant are the ripe seeds. The extract consists of about 65–80% silymarin (a flavonolignan complex) and 20–35% fatty acids, including linoleic...

It was first described by Henry Charles Andrews . It is an important symbol in Chinese culture. * The flowers can be eaten cooked. The fallen flower petals are parboiled and sweetened for a teatime delicacy, or cooked in various dishes.

* A very tolerant plant, thriving even when growing in unkempt grassy areas. * Bell-shaped flowers are pale lavender-blue and bloom for an unusually long time (4-5 weeks) in summer with a repeat bloom in fall.

* The leaves are dark green, elliptic toothed and 2–4 cm long, with irregularly lobed margins, and turn to yellow and reddish tones in autumn. * Inner bark is often dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickener in soups etc or added to cereals...

* Fourwing saltbush is most common in early succession areas such as disturbed sites and active sand dunes. * The burnt green herb yields culinary ashes high in minerals and these are used by the Hopi Indians to enhance the colour of blue corn products.

* The legume is a used as a vegetable in interiors of central and south central India, though not commercially farmed. In Telugu it is called 'chamma kaya' also called 'Tammi kaya' * The fruits are eaten as a vegetable in Africa and Asia.

* Sabal palmetto , also known as Cabbage Palm , Palmetto , Cabbage Palmetto , Palmetto Palm , and Sabal Palm , is one of 15 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal ). It is native to the southeastern United States , Cuba , and the Bahamas .

An old English recipe for the beer is as follows:- "To every Gallon of Birch-water put a quart of Honey, well stirr'd together; then boil it almost an hour with a few Cloves, and a little Limon-peel, keeping it well scumm'd.

* It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent. * Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential oils (Cermak and Penka 1979).

It was used for canning, juice and fresh market. It was the main commercial tomato grown in New Jersey for many years. The flavor is good. * Newer varieties have taken over the commercial world, as you may notice in your grocery store, that are flavorless...

The same size, color and food value as tree peaches. Vine Peaches make excellent preserves and pies, and have a vine-ripe flavor and texture much like a mango. It's an easy plant to grow, with fruit maturing on spreading vines in about 80 days.

* semi-evergreen to deciduous, large foliage shrub maturing at up to 12' tall by 15' wide, but often smaller upright oval to radiating rounded growth habit in youth, maturing to an arching vase growth habit with age (if left unpruned, but frequently pruned...

* Cherry Belle is an Heirloom Variety that can be planted in the spring or fall and is ready to eat 5 weeks after sowing. If you like to eat them, you definitely should grow them! * The radish ( Raphanus sativus ) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae...

* Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon .

It is a larval host for the Long-tailed Skipper and Reakirt's Blue butterfly. * Historically, it was a very important wild food plant because it fruits even during drought years. * The indigenous peoples of California and southwestern North America used...

* This deciduous tree has bark that is white and does not exfoliate (peel off). * The glossy green foliage turns yellow in the fall. * The parent is a vigorous cultivar said to be more resistant to birch borers and tolerant to heat.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl.

* Spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae . It is native to central and southwestern Asia . It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm.

* Requires a rich, well-drained moisture retentive soil and a very warm, sunny and sheltered position. Sow 2 or 3 seeds per pot and thin out to the best plant. * Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in either Central America or northern South America.

It is a larval host for the Long-tailed Skipper and Reakirt's Blue butterfly. * Historically, it was a very important wild food plant because it fruits even during drought years. * The indigenous peoples of California and southwestern North America used...

They can also be used to sweeten tart fruits and to make jam. * The stalks should be peeled, they can be used like celery. * Angelica has a long folk-history of use as a medicinal herb, in particular for the treatment of digestive disorders and problems...

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose.

* An edible blue dye can be obtained from the flowers. * The flowers are rich in a sweet nectar and are very attractive to bees. The leaves are rich in potassium and calcium, they have a salty cucumber flavour.

There are five to ten leaves per stem. * The woolly inflorescences remain attractive well into winter. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute.

The fragrant flower cones impart bitterness and flavor, and also have preservative qualities. * A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops...