Fabaceae
1953 edible species
Legume family with nitrogen-fixing roots; includes beans, peas, lentils, peanuts, and alfalfa.
Purple Prairie Clover
Edible: Root, Leaves - tea
Indigo bush, Woolly prairie clover
Edible: Roots
Purple prairie clover
Edible: Roots
Purple prairie clover
Edible: Leaves - tea, Root
Dalea
African Copaiba
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Gum, Bark - tea, Fruit, Vegetable
Hop bitter-pea
Edible: Leaves - flavouring
Edible: Root, Tuber
Fengoky
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Fruit, Seeds
White gold mohur
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Fruit, Vegetable
Royal Poinciana, Flame Tree
Edible: Seeds, Leaves, Flowers, Fruit
Horse bush tree, Sea vetch tree
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Derris Root
Edible: Leaves
Seven finger
Edible: Leaves as condiment, Spice
Threeleaf derris
Edible: Leaves, Caution
Timu, Barbasco
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Seeds ?
Illinois bundleflower, Prairie mimosa, Prairie Bundleflower
Edible: Seeds
Illinois bundleflower
Edible: Seeds
Wild tantan
Edible: Seeds
Tickclover
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Stem, Leaves
Ironweed, Kaimi-clover
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Seeds, Seedspod
Wild soybean
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Vegetable
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Edible: Root
Edible: Leaves - tea
Three-flower beggarweed, Three-flower tick-trefoil
Edible: Leaves, Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves, Pods
Edible: Leaves
Sweet dattock
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Seeds - spice
Tallow tree, Dattock
Edible: Seeds, Fruit, Kernels, Nuts, Leaves, Caution, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Velvet tamarind
Edible: Fruit
Kalahari podberry
Edible: Seeds, Fruit, Pod, Leaves
Ironwood
Edible: Aril, Fruit
Sierra Leone tamarind, Black velvet tree
Edible: Nuts, Fruit, Aril, Leaves, Seeds
Mpepeta
Edible: Fruit
Honey tamarind plum
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Velvet tamarind
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Keranji tunggal
Edible: Fruit
Thiba tree, Sherbet tree, Zulu podberry
Edible: Fruit
Marabou Thorn, Sickle bush
Edible: Seeds, Pods, Fruit, Gum, Spice
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Pulp, Fruit
Marbles vine, Sea purse
Edible: Seeds, Seeds - oil, Caution
Edible: Flowers, Leaves
Edible: Leaf ash, Medicine
Australian-pea, Dolichos-pea
Edible: Seeds, Pods
Smallflower tonkabean
Edible: Fruit, Seeds
Tonka Bean
Edible: Seeds, Spice, Caution
Almendro, Tonka bean
Edible: Seeds
Many leaf tonka bean
Edible: Seeds
Pointed tonka
Edible: Seeds - spice, Fruit
Edible: Root?
Edible: Leaves, Roots
Dolichos flower, Wild Lupin, Bully-beef plant
Edible: Flowers
Bully beef plant, Veld lupin
Edible: Flowers, Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves
Japanese arrowroot
Edible: Tubers, Roots, Seeds
Edible: Milk coagulant
Edible: Seeds
Wild black bean
Edible: Leaves, Pods, Seeds
Edible: Flowers
Khaang khrang, Krang
Edible: Flowers
Edible: Pods, Seeds
Texas ebony
Edible: Pods, Shoots, Seeds
Dwarf elephant root, Eland's bean
Edible: Seeds - coffee, Fruit, Leaves
Edible: Root
Edible: Root
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves - flavouring, Root
Sea-bean
Edible: Seeds, Leaves
Kati-u
Edible: Leaves