The plants of Tropical
Amazonie, Afrique centrale, Asie du Sud-Est, Pacifique : palmiers, bambous, lianes à eau, et le mancenillier.
28 entries
HarmlessAçaí Palm
Euterpe oleracea
🍽️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Juçara Palm
DeadlyAckee
Blighia sapida
🍽️☠️🌴151 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Itself, unripe
Low toxicityAloe vera
Aloe vera
💊🍽️🏜️🫒🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Agave (ex. Agave parryi, Agave americana)
Low toxicityBamboo (young shoots)
Bambusoideae (nombreux genres : Bambusa, Phyllostachys, Dendrocalamus)
🍽️🪓🏕️🌴27 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessBrazil Nut
Bertholletia excelsa
🍽️🌴659 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No dangerous edible look-alikes known
HarmlessBreadfruit
Artocarpus altilis
🍽️🌴103 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Jackfruit
ToxicCassava
Manihot esculenta
🍽️☠️🌴🌍191 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Sweet cassava vs. bitter cassava
DeadlyCastor Oil Plant
Ricinus communis
☠️🫒🌴🌍
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible look-alike
HarmlessCecropia (pumpwood, embauba)
Cecropia peltata
💊🌴
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessCoconut palm
Cocos nucifera
🍽️💧🪢🌴19 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessHibiscus (roselle, bissap)
Hibiscus sabdariffa
🍽️💊🌴🌍
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessIndian Jujube (Sahel Apple)
Ziziphus mauritiana
🍽️🌍🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Christ's Thorn Jujube
HarmlessJackfruit
Artocarpus heterophyllus
🍽️🌴95 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Breadfruit
HarmlessJuçara palm (heart of palm)
Euterpe edulis
🍽️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Açaí palm (multi-stemmed, clumping habit)
DeadlyManchineel
Hippomane mancinella
☠️🌴🐚
⚠️ Confusion: Apple or small tropical edible fruit
HarmlessMoringa
Moringa oleifera
🍽️💊🌴🌍64 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessPandanus (vacoa, screwpine)
Pandanus tectorius
🍽️🪢🏕️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Coastal Agave or Yucca with spiky leaves
HarmlessRattan
Calamus rotang
🍽️🪢🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Other spiny understory vines (tropical brambles, Smilax)
DeadlyRosary pea (jequirity bean, Indian liquorice)
Abrus precatorius
☠️🌍🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Red sandalwood / Bead tree seeds, non-toxic and used in jewelry
HarmlessSago Palm
Metroxylon sagu
🍽️🌴332 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Cycads (cycadales, e.g. Cycas media, or ornamental Cycas revoluta, both improperly called "sago palms")
DeadlyStrychnine tree (nux vomica)
Strychnos nux-vomica
☠️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Orange or other citrus fruit fallen on the ground
HarmlessTamarind
Tamarindus indica
🍽️💊🌍🌴239 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityTaro
Colocasia esculenta
🍽️🌴112 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Colocasia gigantea and Alocasia (certain species toxic when raw)
HarmlessWild banana tree
Musa balbisiana
🍽️🪓🏕️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessWild cacao tree
Theobroma cacao
🍽️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityWild Physalis (Cape gooseberry, Peruvian groundcherry, husked cherry)
Physalis peruviana
🍽️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Black nightshade (berries not enclosed in a lantern-like calyx)
HarmlessWild Sugarcane
Saccharum spontaneum
🍽️🏕️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Cultivated Sugarcane
ToxicWild Yam (Air Potato, Aerial Yam)
Dioscorea bulbifera
🍽️🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Cultivated yam requiring no detox