Appendix II 



Master Identification Table — Edible and Poisonous 



Plants 



BLACK 



Plant part i 



Description 



Illus. 



No. 



Common name 



Page 

 No. 



F 



Size and shape of olive 



29 

 28 

 51 

 66 

 38 



Aceituno _ _ „ 



38 



F_ 



Resembles large plum 



Coco plum 



37 



XS 



Seeds red and black; like beans 





64 



XF 



Almost black; should never be eaten 



Covered with many blackish hairlike 

 roots. 



Huilihuiste 



84 



XR_._ 



Yam. _ 



48 









BROWN 



XBark 



F 



XR_... 



F 



XR___. 



F 



XBark. 



F 



XF_... 



F 



F 



F 



L 



F 



F 



Thin reddish-brown __ _ 



Large, nearly round 



Like sweet potatoes 



Large hard pods 



Resemble Irish potatoes 



Firm flesh 



Pale brown, smooth; small tree- 



Hard outer shell; meat inside 



Five large pods; has large seeds 



Rough; very heavy; many large seeds 



Soft; scaly or smooth skin. „ 



Rough skin '_._' .. 



Brown and silky underneath __ 



Rough rind ^ - _ ^ . _ _ _ 



Pods -,_-., -.,....„_. __-„-. 



Black poison wood 



Breadfruit 



Cassava 



Courbaril l 



Dasheen 



Mamey 



Manchineel 



Palm nuts 



Panama tree 



Provision tree 



Sapodilla 



Sapote 



Star-apple 



Sunzapote 



Tamarind 



GREEN 



F___. 

 F_... 

 XFL 

 XF1. 

 F„.. 

 XF.. 



Large, nearly round. __„_____ 33 Breadfruit 



Grows on trunk of tree _ 11 Cacao 



Small, greenish; small bush _,. 68 Ciega-vista 



Small, greenish— 62 Guao 



Soft, strong musky odor 18 Guava 



Resembles small green apple -_ 57 Manchineel 



=Fruit; Fl=Flower; L= Leaves; S=Stem; R=Root; X=Special precautionary measures. 



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