Rubiaceae

582 edible species

Tropical family containing coffee, quinine, and madder plants.

Dyer's mulberry

Edible: Fruit

Morinda jasminoides

Jasmine morinda, Sweet morinda

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Roots - chew sticks, Medicine

Morinda morindoides

Brimstone

Edible: Leaves - tea, Fruit

Cheese shrub

Edible: Fruit

Morinda tomentosa

Edible: Fruit

Multidentia concrescens

Edible: Fruit

Multidentia crassa

Edible: Fruit

Mussaenda afzelii

Edible: Fruit

Mussaenda cylindrocarpa

Mussaenda erythrophylla

Red mussaenda

Edible: Fruit

Mussaenda glabrata

Dhobi tree

Edible: Leaves

Mussaenda hossei

Edible: Flowers

Mussaenda landolphioides

Edible: Leaves, Vegetable

Mussaenda macrophylla

Sweet root

Edible: Leaves, Shoots

Mussaenda nijensis

Edible: Fruit

Mussaenda philippica

Bangkok rose, Queen sirikit

Edible: Leaves

Mussaenda pubescens

Jade-leaf gold-flower

Edible: Leaves - tea

Mussaenda villosa

Back adap

Edible: Leaves

Mycetia longifolia

Edible: Leaves

Myrmecodia brassii

Myrmecodia kutubuensis

Nauclea latifolia

African Peach

Edible: Flowers, Fruit

Nauclea subdita

Yellow bangkal tree

Edible: Fruit, Leaves

Nauclea xanthoxylon

Ndea

Edible: Fruit

Neanotis hirsuta

Edible: Leaves

Neolamarckia cadamba

Kadam tree, Philippine Wonder Tree

Edible: Fruit, Flower receptacle, Seeds - oil

Neolamarckia macrophylla

Nertera balfouriana

Edible: Fruit

Nertera ciliata

Edible: Fruit

Nertera cunninghamii

Edible: Fruit

Nertera granadensis - (Mutis. ex L.f.)Druce.

Bead Plant

Edible: Fruit

Nostolachma densiflora

Ochreinauclea maingayi

Edible: Fruit

Oldenlandia auricularia

Honstoria

Edible: Leaves

Oldenlandia capensis

Edible: Leaves

Oldenlandia corymbosa

Old world diamond flower

Edible: Leaves, Vegetable

Oldenlandia diffusa

Edible: Leaves, Fruit

Oldenlandia pinifolia

Edible: Leaves - tea

Oldenlandia tenelliflora

Edible: Leaves

Oldenlandia verticillata

Edible: Leaves - tea

Ophiorrhiza canescens

Ophiorrhiza medogensis

Edible: Plant, Vegetable

Ophiorrhiza nutans

Joko-ow

Edible: Leaves

Ophiorrhiza ochroleuca

Edible: Shoots

Ophiorrhiza peploides

Lera

Edible: Leaves

Ophiorrhiza treutleri

Boing

Edible: Leaves

Ophiorrhiza valetonii

Oxyanthus speciosus

Whip stick afro-loquat

Edible: Stem, Fruit

Oxyanthus subpunctatus

Edible: Stem

Oxyanthus tubiflorus

Edible: Fruit

Oxyceros horridus

Edible: Leaves

Paederia foetida

Chinese fevervine

Edible: Leaves, Roots

Paederia linearis

Khawtonmak

Edible: Seed

Paederia scandens

Edible: Plant - tea, Stem sap

Paederia tomentosa var. glabra

Fever vine

Edible: Leaves

Paederia verticillata

Edible: Leaves

Palicourea rigida

Edible: Fruit

Palicourea subspicata

Edible: Fruit

Palicourea triphylla

Three leaf palicourea

Pauridiantha dewevrei

Yoco

Edible: Fruit

Pauridiantha paucinervis subsp. holstii

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta abyssinica

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta assimilis

Kaffir bride

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta brownii

Waknani

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta catophylla

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta crassicaulis

Nadgi

Edible: Flowers

Pavetta crassipes

Pavetta

Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Vegetable

Pavetta edentula

Large-leaved bride's bush

Edible: Fruit, Leaves

Pavetta esculenta

Edible: Leaves

Pavetta gardeniifolia

Edible: Fruit

White pavetta

Edible: Fruit, Vegetable, Flowers

Pavetta kimberleyana

Edible: Fruit

Pavetta lanceolata

Kaffir bride, Christmas tree

Edible: Leaves

Pavetta schumanniana

Poison pavetta

Edible: Fruit, Leaves - moisture, Caution

Pavetta subcapitata

Edible: Leaves

Pavetta zeyheri

Christmas bush

Edible: Leaves

Pentagonia amazonica

Amazonia pentagonia

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia brachyotis

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia clementinensis

Ecuador pentagonia

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia grandiflora

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia macrophylla

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Seeds, Fruit

Pentagonia spathicalyx

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia subsessilis

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia tinajita

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia williamsii

Williams pentagonia

Edible: Fruit

Pentagonia wurdackii

Wurdack pentagonia

Edible: Fruit

Pentanisia ouranogyne

Edible: Leaves

Pentanisia schweinfurthii

Common pentanisia

Edible: Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable

Pentas lanceolata subsp. quartiniana

Pentodon pentandrus

Hale's pentodon

Edible: Leaves, Stem, Vegetable

Plectroniella armata

False turkey berry

Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Sap

Pleiocoryne fernandensis

Edible: Fruit

Polysphaeria multiflora

Edible: Fruit

Polysphaeria parvifolia

Edible: Fruit

Porterandia anisophylla

Edible: Fruit

Posoqueria acutifolia

Acute leaf posoqueria

Edible: Fruit

Posoqueria longiflora

Edible: Fruit

Pouchetia baumanniana

Edible: Fruit