Parts of plants that we use

Many parts of a plant can be used for culinary or medicinal purposes. The database gives more details on the use of each plant. In some cases one part of a plant may be edible while another part is toxic so care needs to be taken. Always look at the known hazards section of the database for each plant. Culinary plants are used for cooking and are used for their aromatic leaves; others have spicy seeds, stems that can be candied (Permeated, covered, encrusted, or cooked with sugar), or bulbs that have strong distinctive flavours. Some plants have been used as medicines for thousands of years. Plants may have both culinary and medicinal properties.

To find plant parts that you can use try the following searches:

Stems

Root includes bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes etc.

Leaves

Seeds includes nuts, cereals, peas and beans.

Flowers

Bulbs (comes under Root)

Fruit

Other parts of a plant that can be used including the bark, manna, pollen, sap, and seedpods can be searched here