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Master Location Table — Edible and Poisonous Plants — Con 



CULTIVATED ONLY 



Description 



Illus. 

 No. 



Common name 



Fruit almost black; resembles olive 



Fruits vary in size, shape, color 



Round, green or greenish brown fruit 



Smooth or spiny fruit; root like sweet potato 



Soft-stemmed plant; large yellow flowers 



Palm tree; fruit yellow or red 



White bell-shaped flowers 



Fruit greenish; grows on tree trunk 



Green or purple fruit resembles apple 



Bush or small tree; fruit tomato-red 



Fruit yellowish green with white "bloom" 



Aceituno 



Avocado 



Breadfruit 



Chayote 



Okra.— _. 



Pejibaye 



Spanish bayonet 



Soursop 



Star-apple 



Surinam cherry. 

 Sweet-sop 



DRY PLACES 



Red or yellow fruit; resembles pepper. 



Small bush; leaves covered with white hairs 



Small or large trees; black berries 



Flowers bright yeUow; fruit yellow 



Cactus; fruits oval, bright pink 



Bright red leaves; small white flowers 



Cactus; pear-shaped fruit . 



Cashew (Caution) 



Gicga-vista (POISON) __ 

 Huilihuiste (POISON). 



Nance 



Organ cactus 



Poison sumac(POISON) 

 Prickly pear 



FORESTS 



Large, hard, dark brown pods 



Palm; flowers grow in clusters like ear of corn 

 Brownish-green fruit with 5 pods 



Large stems with sap; small purple fruit 



Courbaril 



Pacaya palm 



Panama tree (Caution) 

 Wild grape 



LIMITED 



Gray bark; white flowers; found only in British Hon- 

 duras, Cuba, and Haiti. 



64 



White poison wood 

 (POISON) 



