Solanum tuberosum | potato| aloo

Scientific classification of Solanum tuberosum | images

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Solanales

Family: Solanaceae

Genus: Solanum

Species: S. tuberosum

Common names of Solanum tuberosum :—English. Potato;

Gujrati. Batata;

Hindi. Aloo ;

It is widely cultivated in India. The crop is grown all over the Slate.

The total area occupied is about 15,000 acres.

It is grown as a kharif.It is as rabi crop.

Avena sativa | Oat

Scientific classification of Avena sativa .

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Poales

Family Gramineae.

Subfamily: Pooideae

Tribe: Aveneae

Genus: Avena

Common names of Avena sativa :-English. Oats; Marathi. Jav.

crop grown occasionally in Poona, Ahmednagar, Satara and Ahmedabad districts.

It is wholesome food and is said to give tone to the nervous system.

Oryza sativa(Rice) | image

Scientific classification | images and taxonomy with uses of Oryza sativa(Rice)

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Angiosperms

Class: Monocots

Order: Poales

Family: Poaceae

Genus: Oryza

Common names of Oryza sativa : English:Rice; Gujrati. Dahgar; Hindi. Dhan; Kannad. Bhatta, Akki; Marathi. Bhat.

Oryza sativa is chiefly cultivated in the heavy rainfall tracts of the Deccan (called Mawal) and Karnatak (called Malnad) along and close to the Western Ghats.

A fairly large area is also cultivated in Gujarat.

The total area is 21.98,486 acres.

A large number of varieties, some scented and fine and some non-scented and coarse, are grown in different tracts of the slate..

Boiled rice is the most common article of food of the middle and. upper classes. The grain is also eaten in the form of pohas . Various preparations are made from rice.

Oryza sativa ko "dhan bhi kahte hai"

Setaria italica

Scientific classification and taxonomy of Setaria italica

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Poales

Family: Poaceae

Subfamily: Panicoideae

Genus: Setaria

Species: S. italica

Common names of Setaria italica :-English. Italian Millet; Gujrati. Karig ; Marathi. Rala.

Grown in Karnatak, Deccan, Konkan and Gujarat.

The total area under cultivation is about 1,64,248 acres,

out of which nearly 94 % is in Karnatak.

There are two varieties namely red and white.

The husked grain is usually boiled and eaten whole.

List of Food plants | cereals plants.

List of Food plants | cereals plants.

List of 26 food plants which has many uses and importance .

1. Vigna catjang
2. Pisum arvense
3. Phaseolus radiatus
4. Phaseolus mungo
5. Phaseolus aconitifolius
6. Lens esculenta
7. Lathyrus sativus
8. Pisum arvense
9. Phaseolus radiatus
10. Phaseolus mungo
11. Phaseolus aconitifolius
12. Dolichos lablab
13. Dolichos biflorus
14. Cyamopsis tetragonaloba
15. Triticum species.
16. Setaria italica
17. Pennisetum spicetum
18. Iwspalum scrobiculatum
19. Panicum pilosum
20. Panicum meliare
21. Panicum millaceum
22. Eleusine coracana
23. Eciiinochloa stagnana
24. Avena sativa
25. Andropogon sorghum
26. Oryza Sativa

Vigna catjang-chavli

Scientific classification and Image of Vigna catjang(chavli) with family .

Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Vigna
Species: V. unguiculata

Comon names of Vigna catjang:—
English . Cow Pea; Gujrati. Chola ; Hindi. Lobia ; Marathi. Chavli.

Chavali is generally grown as a kharif crop either alone or in combination with millets.
It is also grown as a rabi crop after rice.
It is grown all over the State, the total area occupied being about 90,650 acres.
A large variety called dang chavli is usually grown round the edge of other crops.
The green pods are used as vegetable.
The green stalks and leaves arc a good lodder for milch cattle,
It is also grown as a green manure crop.

Centrasima pubescens

Centrasima pubescens the medicinal plant
A plant with spreading habit newly introduced as a pasture legume in the State.

It grows well in higher rainfall tracts on slopes and plains with light to medium black soils.

A fairly good fodder plant.

wild fodder legumes

Some most important wild fodder-legumes.

1. Centrasima pubescens
2. Heylandia latebrosa
3. Alysicarpus rugosus
4. Alysicarpus pubescens
5. Longifolius
6. Urochloa reptans
7. Urochloa helopus
8. Themeda triandra
9. Themeda tremula