Dewberry's Plant List: Fruits and other edible plants

A note from Dewberry
I just use this as a shopping list.
To buy online:
Eryngium “Big Blue” (sea holly), 2 or 3 plants
Dietes iridiodes (fortnight Lily) at least 2 plants
Desert Marigold, 3 or 4 plants
Possibly a Blue Flame agave
Possibly a Blue Glow agave
Possibly a red-spine cactus
Fuchsia "Dark Eyes"
Abutilon megapotamicum
Blue Hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelli)
Cistus
Gunnera manicata
Possibly Peruvian Lilies
Possibly a black cohosh live plant

Seeds to buy: cape everlasting, convolvulus tricolor, helianthus debilis, helianthus anuus, hollyhock, portulaca single mix (bulk)

Bulbs/rhizomes to buy online: Dianthus “Tartan," Edible ginger, ornamental ginger, edible turmeric, ornamental curcuma

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Sunset Hibiscus (Abelmoschus manihot)
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Supposed to be perennial to zone 8a. Large edible leaves can be eaten as salad greens or cooked. WARNING. Do not eat while pregnant.

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Kiwi (Actinidia)
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Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)
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Mexican Barberry (Alloberberis trifoliolata)
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Edible, sweet-tart, Texas native.

Thai ginger, root edible, spicy

Greater Galangal (Alpinia galanga)
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This is greater galangal, the galangal species usually called for in cooking.

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Garden Orache (Atriplex hortensis)
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Edible greens. I think it is native to the southwest. I think it is an annual.

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Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
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Edible perennial green. Salads or cooked, use like spinach. May be slightly toxic raw in large quantities.

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Broccolini (Brassica oleracea 'Aspabroc')
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Perennial broccolini.

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Cold Hardy Chili (Capsicum flexuosum)
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This edible chili pepper species is supposed to be cold hardy to 15 degrees!

Neighbor's Pecan Tree

Pecans (Carya illinoinensis)
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Full shade.

Fiery Costus (Chamaecostus cuspidatus)
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I think this is called insulin plant, and that it helps diabetes. I think it is edible, but I need to check.

 Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.

Tree Spinach (Chenopodium giganteum 'Magentaspreen')
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Courtesy Annie's Heirloom Seeds

Catalogna (Cichorium intybus 'Italiko Rosso')
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Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea)
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Edible flowers, act as blue food dye and changes color when other ingredients are added - to pink with acidic foods? Fun food coloring. Tastes like green tea. Might buy from Baker Heirloom Seeds.

photo by Prenn via Wikimedia Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Molokhia (Corchorus olitorius)
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Edible perennial greens.
WARNING: Poisonous stems, poisonous flowers, poisonous fruits, and poisonous roots.
Probably cold hardy to zone 8.

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Sea Kale (Crambe maritima)
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Edible perennial green. Leaves can be used in salads or cooked, other parts can be used as vegetables. In clay soil, put sand at the neck of the plant where the roots meet the stems to prevent rot.

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Chipilin (Crotalaria longirostrata)
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Edible leaves flavor Mexican food, nutritious. Plant is nitrogen fixing. Is it cold hardy enough?

Japanese Parsley, wintersown

Japanese Parsley (Cryptotaenia japonica)
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Perennial herb. Edible leaves taste like parsley or cilantro. Several parts of plant edible. Likes shade, good in heavy clay, easy to grow. Seeds for sale at Baker Creek (rareseeds.com)

First bloom in 4 years!

Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
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Winged Yam (Dioscorea alata) the purple mountain yam was called i

Winged Yam (Dioscorea alata)
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Edible yam called ube, tastes similar to taro, or to pistachio and vanilla. Hardy to about zone 9a.

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