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Cassava
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(ksä´v) or manioc(mn´k), name for many species of the genus Manihot of the family Euphorbiaceae ( family).
Manihot esculenta 'Variegata' (Variegated tapioca, Cassava)
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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CASSAVA
Manihot Esculenta. By Carmen Crandal. 1981 #4 p 4-5
CASSIA BARK TREE - Cinnamomum cassia ...
Cassava stems are easy to root, this segment was cut a few days ago and is already starting to sprout a root.
Culture
Cassava thrives on poor soils (acidic to alkaline) and needs almost no attention to produce bountiful crops of edible roots.
Cassava is a tall semiwoody perennial shrub or tree with big palmately compound leaves.
It is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root.
Sweet Cassava is nourishing, light and agreeable as a food for invalids, and infants during weaning.
See .
Tapioca, Cassava - Tropical upright perennial shrub 8-12' tall w/dissected palmate leaves. Green flwrs in summer. Light shade. Regular to little h20. Root hardy to 15 F.
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cassava; tapioca plant Manihot esculenta
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Cassava, tapioca, manioc (Manihot esculenta)
Castor bean plant (Ricinus communis)
Catchfly, campion (Silene species)
Cattleya (Cattleya species, Cattleya hybrids)
Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea botrytis)
Ceanothus (Ceanothus species) ...
Cassava [English]: Manihot esculenta
Cassava [German]: Manihot esculenta
Cassava [English]: Manihot esculenta esculenta
Cassave [Dutch]: Manihot esculenta
Cassave [Dutch]: Manihot esculenta esculenta
Casse [English]: Cassia fistula ...
Locally grown vegetables are artichokes, beans (bush and pole, runner, string, snap, broad), beets, Bermuda Onion (Allium cepa), Bermuda cassava, broccoli (a good host plant for caterpillars and their butterflies (Cabbage White), Brussels sprouts, ...
Other staple crops include potato, cassava, and legumes. Human food also includes vegetables, spices, and certain fruits, nuts, herbs, and edible flowers.
Beverages produced from plants include coffee, tea, wine, beer and alcohol.
Laurel leaves contain amygdalin, a compound of prussic acid (HCN) and glucose, which is also found in bitter almond kernels (see P. armeniaca) and, to a high degree, in cassava. The last English alchemist, Dr.
A tipiti is a flexible braided cylindrical basket made of jacitara palm bark that is used by the Tupis of South America. The tipiti is used to remove the poison liquid from bitter cassava root.
Abuta, Andiroba, Annato, Billy Goat Weed, Bitter Melon, Cassava, Cat's Claw, Cayenne Pepper, Copaiba, Curcuma xanthorriza, Greater Periwinkle, Guava, Jatoba, Lesser Periwinkle, Mimosa pudica, Passionflower, Pau d' Arco, Phyllanthus Amarus, ...
We do not know why he used the Carib word "Yucca" that had been previously applied as a common name for Manihot esculenta, the Manihot Plant or Cassava.
The usual sequence of land cultivation starts with planting maize for the first two seasons following forest-clearance, later followed by matrix crops, including bananas, rice, sesame, tomato, and manihot (cassava).
American purging nut, bellyache bush, black physic nut, black physicnut, cotton leaf physic nut, cotton-leaf jatropha, cotton-leaf physic nut, purging nut, red fig-nut flower, wild cassava
Family
Euphorbiaceae ...
 See also: Green, Manihot, May, Orange, Evergreen
  
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