Southern Africa
Edible plants which grow in
- Abyssinian cabbage, African cabbage
- Adder’s tongue fern
- African ebony
- African fan palm, Borassus palm, African Palmyra palm
- African heart-vine
- African honeysuckle
- African Horned cucumber, Kiwano
- African locust bean
- African mangosteen
- African myrrh
- African Oil palm
- African rock fig, Hairy rock fig
- Agave, Century Plant
- Alexander palm, Alexandra Palm, King palm
- Alpine strawberry, Woodland strawberry
- Angled loofah
- Apricot
- Arabian coffee
- Arabian tea tree, Bushman’s tea, Khat
- Asian pennywort, Indian Pennywort
- Asparagus
- Assyrian Plum, Sebastan tree
- Asthma plant
- Atherton palm, Mountain mist palm, Atherton mist palm
- Australian blackwood
- Avocado, West Indian Avocado
- Balsam apple, Apple Balsam
- Banana, Hybrid plantains
- Barbados pride, Coral Pea, Bead Tree
- Barley, Pearl Barley, Six Rowed Barley
- Barnyard grass, Barnyard millet
- Bay laurel, Sweet Bay
- Bead tree, Cape lily
- Bead-bean
- Beetroot
- Bermuda grass, Indian goosegrass
- Bird plum, Brown ivory, Mountain date
- Bird's eye chillies
- Bird's eye, Indian liquorice
- Bitter cucumber
- Black kurrajong
- Black thorn, Hook-thorn
- Blue mallow, Cheeses
- Boabab, Cream of tartar tree
- Boneseed
- Borage
- Bottle gourd
- Bow wood, Four Corners, Cross-berry
- Brandy bush, Raisin bush
- Broad-leaved Aloe
- Brown olive, Wild olive, African olive, Indian olive
- Brown-berry fluted milkwood
- Buckwheat, Japanese buckwheat, Silverhull buckwheat
- Bulb onion
- Bullrush millet, Pearl millet
- Bunya pine
- Bush butter tree, African-pear
- Bush-willow, River bushwillow
- Bushman bean, Large false mopane
- Butterfly Bean, Darwin pea, Streaky Bean
- Butterfly ginger, White ginger lily
- Butterfly Tree, Purple orchid Tree
- Butterpips
- Camel thorn
- Camphor laurel
- Candle acacia, Candle-pod acacia
- Candle nut, Country walnut
- Cape fig, Brown cluster fig, Broom cluster fig
- Cape gooseberry
- Capsicum
- Carandas plum, Simple-spined carissa
- Carob
- Carrot
- Cashew
- Cassava, Manioc, Tapioca
- Cassod Tree, Siamese senna tree
- Catkin blooming, Yellow plum
- Celery, Stalk celery
- Ceriman, Monsteria
- Chaff-flower, Rough chaff tree
- Cherimoya
- Chewing gum tree
- Chickory, Chicory
- Chickpea
- Chinese amaranth, Red amaranth
- Chives, Onion chives
- Citron
- Coast goldleaf, Velvet sweetleaf
- Coast wattle, Sydney golden wattle
- Cobbler’s pegs, Spanish needles
- Coconut
- Coffee (Liberian)
- Comb fringe grass, Coast Button Grass
- Common bamboo
- Common bean
- Common peppercress, Pepperweed
- Common plantain, Broadleaf plantain, Greater plantain
- Common Quince, Smyrna quince
- Common wild fig, Strangler fig
- Confetti tree
- Cotton Tree, Beach Hibiscus
- Couch
- Cucumber
- Currant resin tree, Tarberry
- Date palm
- Dayflower, Tropical Spiderweed
- Desert date, Soapberry tree
- Diamond-leaved euclea
- Diamond-leaved euclea
- Dill
- Donkey berry, Rough leaf raisin, Sandpaper raisin
- Doum palm, Vegetable ivory palm
- East African Yellowwood, Common Yellow Wood
- Edible spike rush, Chinese water-chestnut
- Edible stemmed vine
- Egyptian thorn, Scented-pod acacia
- Ensete
- European plum
- Evening primrose
- False marula
- False sesame
- Fat hen, Lamb’s quarters
- Feather Grass, Reed, Common Reed
- Fennel, Common fennel
- Fig
- Finger millet
- Fish Poison Tree
- Flame tree, Flame kurrajong, Bottle Tree
- Flower-of-an-hour
- Forest yam
- Four O’Clock Plant
- Fried egg tree, Snuff-box tree
- Garlic
- Giant yellow mulberry
- Gingerbread palm, Doum palm
- Gingerbread palm, Northern lala palm
- Glandular mesquite, Honey Mesquite, Honeypod
- Globe artichoke
- Golden wattle, Australian Golden Wattle
- Golden wreath wattle
- Governor’s plum
- Grain Amaranth
- Granite garcinia, Granite mangosteen
- Grapefruit
- Greater yam
- Grey-leaved saucer-berry, Grey leafed cordia
- Guar bean, Clusterbean
- Gutta perch tree
- Hard celtis tree
- Haroni fig, False cape fig
- Heart seed, Heart pea
- Hibiscus, Rose of China
- Hogweed, Tar vine, Red hogweed
- Hollyhock
- Honey locust, Thorny locust
- Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Moringa
- Incense tree, African elemi, African canarium
- Indian mustard, Leaf mustard, Chinese mustard
- Indian shot, Queensland arrowroot
- Indian spinach
- Jack bean
- Jackfruit
- Jade plant, Elephant's food
- Japanese bunching onion, Spring onion
- Java bean, Foetid Cassia
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Jerusalem thorn
- Job’s tears
- Jungle rice
- Jute, Bush Okra
- Kaffir Bread, Hottentot bread, Mombasa cycad
- Kaffir plum, Wild plum
- Kaffir potato, Hausa potato
- Kangkong
- Kapok, White silk cotton tree
- Karroo Thorn, Cape gum
- Key apple
- Kodo millet, Creeping paspalum
- Lablab bean
- Lantana, English sage bush
- Large-leafed cordia
- Large-leaved rock fig
- Leadwood, Ivory tree
- Leaf Cactus
- Leek
- Lemon
- Lemon grass
- Lemon Myrtle, Lemon Ironwood, Lemon Scented Myrtle
- Lentils
- Lettuce
- Leucaena
- Lima bean
- Lime
- Liquorice, Licorice
- Litchi, Lychee
- Live-long tree, Tree grape
- Looking Glass Mangrove
- Lotus-seed Herb, Joyweed
- Lowland bamboo, Savannah bamboo, Wine bamboo
- Lowveld milkberry
- Macadamia nut, Queensland nut
- Macadamia nut, Smooth-shelled Macadamia
- Macadamia, Rough Shelled Bush Nut
- Madagascar brexia
- Madagascar cardamom, Wild cardamom
- Madras thorn
- Maidenhair tree, Ginkgo nut
- Malabar gourd, Fig-leaf gourd
- Mandarin
- Mango
- Marabou Thorn, Sickle bush
- Marrow, Pumpkin
- Melon, Canteloupe, Honey-dew
- Melon, Canteloupe, Honey-dew
- Mexican tea
- Mile-a-minute, Coast Morning Glory
- Milk plum, Stem-fruit
- Milk-pear
- Mobola plum
- Modjadji cycad
- Moreton Bay Chestnut
- Mother-of-cacao
- Mount Morgan Wattle
- Mountain grewia, Grey grewia
- Mulberry, White mulberry
- Natal myrtle, Natal eugenia
- Natal plum, Large num-num, Carissa
- Neem tree
- Niger Seed
- Northern dwaba-berry, Monkey's fingers
- Nut Grass, Purple Nutsedge
- Nutmeg and mace
- Olive
- Ombu tree
- Orange
- Orange-milk tree
- Oval kei apple, Apricot sourberry
- Pale Smartweed, Pale Knotweed
- Palmate Morning Glory
- Paperbark acacia, Flat-topped thorn
- Parsley
- Pawpaw, Papaya
- Pea
- Peach
- Peanut, Groundnut
- Pecan
- Peeling-bark ochna, Peeling plane
- Persian mulberry, Black mulberry
- Physic nut, Purging nut
- Pickerelweed, Pickerel Rush
- Pigeon pea
- Pineapple
- Pink ivory, Red ivory
- Pink Orchid Tree
- Pistachio nut
- Poison arrow tree, Rough-leaved poison-bush
- Potato yam
- Prickly amaranth, Spiny Pigweed
- Pumpkin, Winter squash
- Purple amaranth, Red amaranth
- Purple passionfruit
- Purslane
- Quail grass, Cock’s comb
- Red Coondoo, Spanish cherry, Star flower tree
- Red mangrove, Large-fruited orange mangrove
- Red-leaf hibiscus
- Red-leaved rock fig
- Rhodesian ash, Red syringa
- Rice
- Rocket
- Roman Pine, Stone Pine
- Roselle, Rosella
- Rough-leaved shepherd's tree, Rough-leaved boscia
- Royal Poinciana, Flame Tree
- Russet bush-willow, Mouse-eared combretum
- Safflower
- Sand apple, Dwarf mabolo
- Sandpaper cordia, Cork bush
- Sapodilla, Sapote
- Sausage tree
- Scarlet runner bean
- Sea trumpet, White bush apple
- Senegal date palm
- Sensitive Senna, Japanese Tea bush, Five-leaved Cassia
- Serendipity berry, Guinea potato
- Seville orange
- Shaggy-fruited dovyalis
- Shakama plum
- Shepherd’s purse
- Shepherd’s tree, Caper bush, White-stemmed Boscia
- Shittim wood, Whistling thorn
- Silky oak
- Silver spinach
- Simple-leaved wild grape
- Sisal, Hemp
- Slenderleaf rattlepod
- Small-flowered quickweed, Potato weed
- Small-leaved white raisin
- Small-leaved white raisin
- Smelly boscia, Smelly shepherd's tree
- Smooth loofah, Vegetable sponge
- Soap berry, Dune soap-berry
- Sour cherry, Morello cherry, Pie cherry
- Soursop
- South African Cherry, Indaba tree, Sand apple
- South African sagewood
- Soybean
- Spider flower, Cat's-whiskers
- Spleen amaranth
- Stem-fruit miraculous berry
- Sticky hop-bush, Common sand olive
- Strawberry-fruited fat hen
- Striped cucumber, Native Bryony
- Sudan Gum Arabic
- Sunflower
- Sunhemp
- Swamp fern, Water sprite, Water hornfern
- Sweet acacia, Prickly Moses, Mimosa bush
- Sweet basil
- Sweet potato
- Sweet prickly pear, Indian fig
- Sweet-root commiphora
- Sweetsop
- Sword bean
- Sycamore fig
- Sydney green wattle
- Taro
- Tarragon, French Tarragon, Russian tarragon
- Tassel Berry
- Teff
- Tepary bean
- Thickhead, Okinawan spinach
- Tiny waterlily
- Tomatillo
- Tomatillo, Ground cherry
- Tomato
- Torchwood
- Torchwood, Torch fruit tree
- Tree tomato, Tamarillo
- Trellis vine
- Two-coloured grewia, White-leaved raisin
- Umbrella thorn
- Vegetable kenaf, Indian hemp
- Velvet bean
- Water root, Narrow-leafed kambro
- Watercress
- Watermelon
- Wax gourd
- Weeping Paperbark, Cajuput, Weeping Tea-tree
- West Indian Arrowroot
- West Indian Gherkin
- White bauhinia, Zambezi coffee
- White Eclipta, False daisy
- White mangrove, Grey Mangrove
- White Raisin, White Currant Bush
- White-thorn, Apple ring acacia
- Wild coffee beans, Kalahari bauhinia, Camel's foot
- Wild custard apple
- Wild olive, Africa Olive
- Wild sour, Bush sorrel
- Wild turnip
- Wine palm, Palmyra Palm
- Winter cassia, Sticky pod
- Wirilda, Swamp Wattle
- Yellow Hibiscus, Prickly tree hibiscus
- Yellow Nutsedge, Tiger nut
- Yellow passionfruit
- Yellow wood-sorrel