Cadaba

Cadaba
Cadaba fruticosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Capparaceae
Genus: Cadaba
Forssk.
Species

About 30, see text

Cadaba is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae. There are about 30 species.[1] Some species are classified as famine food in southern Ethiopia.[2]

Species include

References

  1. ^ PlantzAfrica: Cadaba aphylla
  2. ^ Yves Guinand and Dechassa Lemessa, "Wild-Food Plants in Southern Ethiopia: Reflections on the role of 'famine-foods' at a time of drought" UN-OCHA Report, March 2000 (accessed 15 January 2009)

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