Food plants
Eugenia myrtifolia (Myrtaceae)
Myrtaceae Unusual evergreen shrub up to 3-4 m high and cultivated for its fruits that looks like cherries and are magenta or dark pink...
Fragaria vesca ‘Alpine Yellow’ (Rosaceae)
Strawberry cultivar with fruits being yellow-whitish, about 2 cm long and about 8 mm wide at base. Very tasty. It doesn't makes stolons....
Physalis peruviana (Solanaceae)
Small hairy shrub up to 1 m in heigth. Leaves ovate, toothed at the margin. Flowers yellowish, with a black base. Fruits spherical,...
Polymnia sonchifolia ‘Morado’(Smallanthus sonchifolius ’Morado’) (Asteraceae)
The tuberous roots of this variety have a dark purple skin and a white flesh that is slightly pinkish just under the skin. This plant is...
Fragaria vesca ‘Alba’ (Rosaceae)
Very proliferous stoloniferous cultivar. Fruits small, slightly depressed, pure white in colour and with a juicy sweet taste. Good spring...
Apios americana (Fabaceae)
Deciduous climber with tuberous roots. Stems twining. Leaves trifoliate, with ovate lobes. Dense axillary inflorescences. Flowers pea-like,...
Capsicum annuum var. aviculare (Solanaceae)
~~This is probably the original wild pepper from which all the cultivated cultivars originate. Known as Tepín. It still grows wild in...
Casimiroa edulis (Rutaceae)
~~Tree, up to 16 m in height. Leaves palmate-compound, formed by 5 leaflets. Leaflets oblanceolate, up to 12.5 cm in length. Flowers small,...