Edible Native Texas Plants
Edible Native Texas Plants on display at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Warning: Before consuming any wild food, be absolutely certain of its proper identity! Many plants have look a like. When in doubt, do not eat it!Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax Mallow Bleeding Hearts Mexican Apple Manzanita | |
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