Boraginaceae
229 edible species
Herb family including borage, comfrey, and forget-me-nots with culinary and medicinal uses.
Anacua, Sugarberry, Knockaway
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Alkanet, Spanish Bugloss, Dyer's Bugloss
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Alkanna
Edible: Leaves, Flowers
Yellow Burrweed, Tarweed fiddleneck, Bugloss fiddle-neck
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Menzies fiddleneck
Edible: Seeds
Common Fiddleneck
Bristly Fiddleneck
Edible: Leaves, Seed
Bristly fiddleneck
Edible: Seeds, Leaves
Debbouna, Choubet, Sheikh el boukoul, Ialma, Chandjar, Hamricha, Tirhounam, Sahtour, Eastern Anchusa
Edible: Leaves
Rough-leaved borage
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Flower
Anchusa, Large blue alkanet
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Seeds, Flower - nectar, Vegetable
Edible: Flowers ?
Edible: Leaves
Cape forget-me-not
Edible: Flowers, Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Alkanet, Bugloss, Anchu
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Roots - colouring, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves
Voudoglosso
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Ballikotu
Edible: Leaves, Nectar
Himalayan arnebia
Edible: Root- flavour
Pink arnebia
Edible: Root
Edible: Root
Arabian primrose
Edible: Roots - edible dye
German madwort
Edible: Leaves
Borage
Edible: Leaves, Herb, Spice, Flowers, Vegetable, Seeds - tea
Edible: Leaves
Currant tree
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Pigeon wood strong bark, Currant tree
Edible: Fruit
Field Gromwell, Corn gromwell
Fukien Tea, Philippine tea tree
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Waxplant
Edible: Leaves, Flowers
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Acute leaf cordia
Edible: Fruit
Large-leafed cordia, Sudan teak
Edible: Fruit, Seeds
Ecuador laurel, Spanish elm
Edible: Fruit, Bark - spice
Idumuye
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Muneco
Edible: Fruit
Wild olive, Mexican olive
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit, Leaves - Seasoning
Septee saucer-berry
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Kuyus
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Bird Lime Tree, Clammy-cherry
Edible: Seeds, Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Oil
Edible: Fruit
Ziricote, Cordia, Geiger tree
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit - coffee, Flowers
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Lataringue, Uva
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
West Indian Cherry
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Sandpaper cordia, Cork bush
Edible: Fruit, Seeds
Assyrian Plum, Sebastan tree
Edible: Seeds, Nuts, Leaves, Fruit, Flowers
Large sebesten
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Edible: Fruit ?
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Sandpaper tree, Snot berry
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Ng'ong'o
Small bone-apple
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Scarlet Cordia
Edible: Fruit, Bark, Flowers, Seeds
Edible: Fruit
Jurute, Jurete
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Silky cordia
Edible: Fruit
Grey-leaved saucer-berry, Grey leafed cordia
Edible: Fruit, Root, Gum, Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Sea trumpet, White bush apple
Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Nut, Flowers
Edible: Nuts
Guanhuma
Edible: Fruit
Aquaratinga
Edible: Fruit
Clammy cherry, Four stamen cordia
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Bairola
Edible: Fruit
Pacific hound's tongue
Edible: Root
Lanceleaf forget-me-not, Hound's tongue
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Hound's tongue
Edible: Leaves, Caution
Edible: Leaves
Waterleaf
Edible: Leaves, Shoots