Carolyn S. Nash, Author at Edible Tropical Plants

The family Zingiberaceae is known for beautiful, and often bizarre flowers as well as rhizomes. The family is most well known ...

Taro is a common name for a wide range of plants under the family Araceae. There are many species of plants that are hosts to the ...

The dragonfruit (aka Pitaya) comes from a variety of species, the most common being the Hylocereus undatus (red pitaya). These cacti ...

This is a matured pineapple flower as it develops into a fruit. Few stop to think about what a pineapple actually is, and refer to ...

Sapindaceae is a large plant family that includes many common and economically important genera and species, including maple trees, ...

Phoenix is a genus in the family Arecaceae which is composed of about a dozen species. The most economically important of which ...

Jackfruit trees yield the largest fruits of all fruit trees, with some weighing well over 50 lbs. This truly massive tree belongs to ...