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Master Identification Table — Edible and Poisonous 

 Plants — Continued 



GREEN— Continued 



Plant part 



Description 



Illus. 



No. 



Common name 



Very small 



Sweet, juicy flesh 



Grown like small "cabbage' : 



Unripe, but edible 



Multicolored __ 



Like an ear of corn 



Small; greenish yellow 



Greenish white or purple 



Very large; has soft spines.. 



Like small apple 



Greenish yellow 



Thin membranous skin 



Manchineel. . 



Mango 



Palm nuts 



Papaw 



Passion vine. 



Pinanona 



Physic nut... 

 Rose apple... 



Soursop 



Star-apple 



Sweet-sop 



White sapote 



ORANGE 



Three-celled pod 



Resembles muskmelon or cantaloupe. 

 Egg-shaped; hard shell 



Akee 



Papaw 



Passion vine 



PINK 



Both fruit and seed edible 



Oval; covered with leaf scales 

 Vary large; pink and white 



Cashew 



Organ cactus. 

 Provision tree, 



PURPLE 



Small; pale purple or white 



Small; purple-black; many seeds 



Resembles large plum 



Borders the leaves 



May be greenish white also 



Thick, stiff 



Fruit resembles plum 



Resembles small apple 



Young leaves red or purple 



Thin, tender skin 



Small; edible but sour . 



Like flowers of beans; sometimes white 



Black nightshade 

 Black nightshade. 



Coco plum 



Oto 



Rose apple 



Sea grape 



Spanish plum 



Star-apple 



Sunzapote 



Wild cherry 



Wild grape 



Yam bean 



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