Identifying and Using Tropical Vegies No.1 'd'

Bell Capsicum/chilli - the outside edge is not as hot as the inside.

Beans

Madagascar Beans -  Take bean seeds out and used in curry and salad. Eat them before they dry. Use like Lima Beans. They form a rampant vine. 

Winged Beans - soak in boiling water for 2 hours, then plant. Vines will come up in the 2nd year. They have a pretty mauve flower.


Snake Beans - Pick and eat when young.

New Guinea Beans - (Italian Edible Gourd,Serpent Gourd, Cucuzzi, Indian Squash) Not actually a bean - Gourd family - can get to a metre long! Eat at about a foot long. Treat and eat like a Zucchini. 


Bamboo Shoots - harvest at about a foot long - peel, chop and cook in salted water at least 20mins.

Choko - harvest small.