Download Study Of Wild Edible Plants & Their Dietary Uses.

A Project By
Miss. Nagarkar Rina Dilip.
Miss. Kolhe Smita Ramnath.
(Academic Year:2010-11.)
The Wild Edible Plants
• Botanical Name
• Local Name
• 1. Agave americana L.
• 1. Ghayapat
• 2. Amaranthus
spinosus L.
• 2. Kate Math
• 3. Bombax ceiba L.
• 3. Kate Saver
• 4. Caralluma
adscendens R.Br.
• 4. Shindadmakad
• Botanical Name
• Local Name
• 5. Celotia argentea L.
• 5. Kurdu
• 6. Launaea procumbens
(Roxb)
• 6. Pathari
• 7. Tribulus terrestris L.
• 7. Sarata
• 8. Chlorophytum
tuberosum(Roxb.)Baker
• 8. Kolu
Agave americana L. Amaranthus spinosus L. Bombax ceiba L.
Caralluma adscenden
R.Br.
Celotia argentea L.
Tribulus terrestris L. Chlorophytum
Launaea
tuberosum(Roxb)Bak
procumbens(Roxb)
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Botanical Name:
Agave americana L.
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Family:
Agavaceae
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Local Name:
Ghyapat
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Parts Used:
Flowers
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General Habit:
Plant under shrubs, leaves
in a rosette, oblong –lanceolate, gray,
prickly on the edges. Flowers yellowishgreenish, in a bracteate scape or stalk,
fruits oblong clavate.
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Flower and fruits:
October –December
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Tribal Use:
Flowers are cooked
as vegetables.
• Botanical Name:
L.
Amaranthus spinosus
• Family:
Amaranthaceae
• Local Name:
Kate math
• Parts Used:
Leaf
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General Habit:
Plant herbs, erect. Leaves,
ovate, rhomboid or oblong .Spikes green,
simple or branched Utricles conical,
thicked at top regose.Seeds shining
discoid.
• Flower and fruits:
July-February.
• Tribal Use:
Leaves are cooked
• as vegetables along with ingredients.
• Botanical Name:
Bombax ceiba L.
• Family:
Bombacaeae
• Local Name:
Kate-saver
• Parts Used:
Flower
• General Habit:
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Plant tall tree, leaves 5-7foliolate; leaflets caudate cuspidate or
acuminate base acute, entire. Flowers red
solitary paired or clustered near ends of
leaflets branch lets. Capsules ovoid –
oblong, loculicidal, 5-locular. Seeds
numerous ovoid, packed in white cotton.
• Flower and fruits:
February-June
• Tribal Use:
as vegetables.
Flowers are cooked
• Botanical Name:
Caralluma adscendens R.Br.
• Family:
Asclepidaceae
• Local Name:
Makadsing or Shindamakad
• Parts Used:
Shoots/Stem
• General Habit:
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Plant herbs, dwarf, succulent, perennials
• and sap watery. Leaves sessile, scale like
structure, deltoid-ovate, ciliate. Flowers solitary,
• axillary, at upper nodes, hairy; calyx glandular
within; corolla rotate, lobes valvate, copiously hairy,
• corona biseriate. Follicles, paired lanceolate,
• tapering to sharp point .seeds brown oblong
• coma silky.
• Flower and fruits:
June-September.
• Tribal Use:
Shoots are cooked as
• vegetables, also eaten as raw.
• Botanical Name:
Celotia argentea L.
• Family:
Amaraanthaceae
• Local Name:
Kurdu
• Parts Used:
Leaf
• General Habit:
. Plant herbs, erectorprocumbent;
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• leaves broadly ovate, lanceolate, elliptic
• or linear. Inelegances of dense, terminal
• spikes flowers white pink Utricles
ellipsoid, tapering at apex into style.
• Flower and fruits:
August –February
• Tribal Use:
Leaves and twigs
• are cooked as vegetable
• Botanical Name:
Launaea procumbens L.
• Family:
Asteraceae
• Local Name:
Pathari
• Parts Used:
Leaf
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General Habit:
Plant annual herbs; leaves
mostly radical, sessile, obovate-oblong,
pinnatifid.Heads yellow, terminals, in long
branched or unbranched racemes, pappus
copious,multiseritate ,caduceous. Achenes
brown.
• Flower and fruits:
August-October
• Tribal Use:
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Leaves are cooked
as vegetable.
• Botanical Name:
Tribulus terrestris L.
• Family:
Zygophyllaceae
• Local Name:
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• Parts Used:
Sarata
Whole plant
• General Habit:
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Plant is prostrate or suberect
• silky-pubescent herbs. Leave paripinnate;
• leaflets 4-8 pairs, elliptic-oblong,appressed
hairy. Flowers yellow, solitary, axillary or
• leaf opposed. Fruits glaborus.Seeds minute,
oblong.
• Flower and fruits:
• year.
Almost through the
• Tribal Use:
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Whole plant iscooked
as vegetable.
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Botanical Name:
Chlorophytum tuberosum
(Roxb.)Baker
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Family:
Liliaceae.
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Local Name:
Kuli / Kolu
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Parts Used:
Leaf/root
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General Habit:
Plant herbs, c 30 m high, root-fibres,
cylindric,with euip soid tubers hanging from
them.leaves 6-12,membranous,sessile,15-30*1.
2-2.5cm,acuminate,margins unclulate.scape
terete,vauled .racemes 5-10cm long .flowers
white capsules obovoid,c 1.0*0.6cm ,shininglransversely veined,emarginated,cells 4-6seeded seeds irregularly,orbicular, c 0.3cm in
diameter; black.
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Flower and fruits:
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Tribal Use:
Leaves are cooked as
vegetable; also roots eaten as raw.
June –September
Usability of plants to our
Health
• The leaves of Amaranthus spinosus, Celotia argentea,
Chlorophytum tuberosum, Launaea procumbens are
mostly used as vegetables for cooking. Moreover
species like Chlorophytum tuberosum bears a tuber
which provides hefty minerals and also most of them
having medicinal importance.
Locality of plants
• During the ethnobotanical survey, the wild plants
used as food was carried out in different
localities and market places of Akole and
Sangamner tahasil. The information/ data on
properties of plants used as a wild food against
are recorded.
Reason behind study
• During the survey, it was revealed that the tribals and
villagers of Akole and Sangamner have much faith in
using the less known and wild plants as a food. The
indigenous people of specially Akole talukas are
dependent on forests food for their daily livehood. They
frequently visit forests to collect their necessary food
supplements and other materials. Thus, those people
have described into two classes- vegetables and raw
food. The vegetable plant materials are used for
coocking,and the raw food is directly eatenafterWashing.
Summary
• Moreover, wild food plants are used as common
household food and make a substantial contribution to
food security of the tribals and villagers in theses areas.
Therefore, steps are needed to undertake extensive
education about their importance as a nutritional
balanced food as a direct and indirect source of income
particularly for the resources poor family. These may
bring to light one or other new food plants from wild
resources for increased population of our country.