Perennial Food Plants

Perennial food plants, Vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries & herbs

Fruits, nuts and berries

Coffee (Coffea arabica)

Brazil Cherry (Eugenia uniflora)

Longan (Dimocarpus longan)

Grumichama (Eugenia brasiliensis)

Pepino (Solanum muricatum)

Saba Nut (Pachira aquatic)

Dragon Fruit – Red fleshed (Hylocereus undatus)

Dragon Fruit – Yellow skin/white flesh (Selenicereus megalanthus)

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)

Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)

Wild currant (Solanum nigrum)

Legume, Grain and Grass

Ice cream bean (Inga edulis)

Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala)

Napier/ Bana Grass (Pennisetum purpureum)

Aquatic species

Water Chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)

Tuber and Root vegetables

Coco Yam/Malanga/Tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium)

Taro – Bunlong (Colocasia esculenta)

Yellow flesh climbing yam (Dioscorea cayenensis)

Aerial Yam/ potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)

Cassava (Manihot Esculenta)

Arrowroot (Canna Edulis)

Okinawa spinach (Gynura bicolour)

Brazilian spinach (Alternanthera sissoo)

Mushroom plant (Rungia klossii)

Surinam spinach (Talinum fruticosum)

Herbs and spices

Fish Mint (Houttuynia cordata) antioxidant & antibacterial

Turmeric (Curcuma longa)

Cardamon (Elettaria cardamomum)

Galangal (Alpinia galangal)

Ginger ((Zingiber officinale)

Perennial Basil – large leaved (Ocimum gratissimum)

Aloe Vera (Aloe vera)

Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum)

White/Chinese Mugwort (Artemisia argyi)

Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia)

Gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

Elderberry (Sambucus sp)

Citronella grass (Cymbopogon nardus)

Native plants

Roseleaf Raspberry (Rubus rosifolius)

Bangalow palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana)

Water gum (Tristaniopsis laurina)

Bleeding heart (Homalanthus populifolius)

Black bean tree (Castanospermum-australe)

Blue quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)

Burrawang Cycad (Macrozamia communis)

Perennial Food Plants