A Project By

Miss. Nagarkar Rina Dilip. Miss. Kolhe Smita

Ramnath.

(Academic Year:2010-11.)

The Wild Edible Plants

• Botanical Name

• 1. Agave americana L.

• 2. Amaranthus spinosus L.

• 3. Bombax ceiba L.

• 4. Caralluma adscendens R.Br.

• Local Name

• 1. Ghayapat

• 2. Kate Math

• 3. Kate Saver

• 4. Shindadmakad

• Botanical Name

• 5. Celotia argentea L.

• 6. Launaea procumbens (Roxb)

• 7. Tribulus terrestris L.

• 8. Chlorophytum tuberosum(Roxb.)Baker

• Local Name

• 5. Kurdu

• 6. Pathari

• 7. Sarata

• 8. Kolu

Agave americana L. Amaranthus spinosus L. Bombax ceiba L. Caralluma adscendens R.Br.

Celotia argentea L. Launaea procumbens(Roxb)

Tribulus terrestris L. Chlorophytum tuberosum(Roxb)Baker

• Botanical Name: Agave americana L.

• Family: Agavaceae

• Local Name: Ghyapat

• Parts Used: Flowers

• General Habit:• Plant under shrubs, leaves • in a rosette, oblong –lanceolate, gray, • prickly on the edges. Flowers yellowish-• greenish, in a bracteate scape or stalk,• fruits oblong clavate.

• Flower and fruits: October –December

• Tribal Use: Flowers are cooked as vegetables.

• Botanical Name: Amaranthus spinosus L.

• Family: Amaranthaceae

• Local Name: Kate math

• Parts Used: Leaf

• 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:• Plant tall tree, leaves 5-7-

foliolate; 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: Flowers are cooked as vegetables.

• Botanical Name: Caralluma adscendens R.Br.

• Family: Asclepidaceae

• Local Name: Makadsing or Shindamakad

• Parts Used: Shoots/Stem

• General Habit:• 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;• 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

• 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: Leaves are cooked • as vegetable.

• Botanical Name: Tribulus terrestris L.

• Family: Zygophyllaceae

• Local Name: Sarata• • Parts Used: Whole plant

• General Habit:• 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: Almost through the • year.

• Tribal Use: Whole plant iscooked

• as vegetable.

• Botanical Name: Chlorophytum tuberosum

• (Roxb.)Baker

• Family: Liliaceae.

• Local Name: Kuli / Kolu

• Parts Used: Leaf/root

• 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 ,shining-

lransversely veined,emarginated,cells 4-6-seeded seeds irregularly,orbicular, c 0.3cm in diameter; black.

• Flower and fruits: June –September

• Tribal Use: Leaves are cooked as• vegetable; also roots eaten as raw.

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.