Plants of BAHAY KUBO

Singkamas

Singkamas

English name: JicamaScientific name : Pachyrhizus erosus

also Yam and Mexican Turnip, is the name of a native Mexican vine, although the name most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. 

Talong

Talong

English name: Eggplant Scientific name: Solanum melongena

It is a delicate perennial often cultivated as an annual. It grows 40 to 150 cm (16 to 57 in) tall, with large coarsely lobed leaves that are 10 to 20 cm (4–8 in) long and 5 to 10 cm (2–4 in) broad. The flowers are white to purple, with a five-lobed corolla and yellow stamens. The fruit is fleshy, has a meaty texture, less than 3 centimetres (1.2 in) in diameter on wild plants, but much larger in cultivated forms.

Sigarilyas

Sigarilyas

English name: Winged bean Scientific name: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus

The winged bean plant grows as a vine with climbing stems and leaves, 3–4 m in height. It is an herbaceous perennial, but can be grown as an annual. It is generally taller and notably larger than the Common bean. The bean pod is typically 15–22 cm (6–9 in) long and has four wings with frilly edges running lengthwise. The large flower is a pale blue. The beans themselves are similar to soybeans in both use and nutritional content (being 29.8% to 39% protein).

Mani

Mani

English name: Peanut Scientific name: Arachis hypogaea

It is an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm tall. The leaves are opposite, pinnate with four leaflets each leaflet 1 to 7 cm long and 1 to 3 cm broad. The flowers are a typical peaflower in shape, 2 to 4 cm across, yellow with reddish veining. After pollination, the fruit develops into a legume 3 to 7 cm long, containing 1 to 4 seeds, which forces its way underground to mature.Hypogaea means "under the earth."

Sitaw

Sitaw

English name: String Bean, Green Bean, Common Bean

Scientific name: Phaseolus vulgaris

it is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean. The leaf is occasionally used as a leaf vegetable, and the straw is used for fodder. Botanically, the common bean is classified as a dicotyledon. Beans are a legume and thus acquire their nitrogen through an association with rhizobia, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 

Bawang

Bawang

English name: Garlic Scientific name: Allium sativum

The garlic plant's bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. With the exception of the single clove types, the bulb is divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves. The leaves, and flowers (bulbils) on the head (spathe) are also edible, and being milder in flavor than the bulbs,they are most often consumed while immature and still tender

Luya

Luya

English name: Ginger Scientific name: Zingiber officinale

It is a tuber that is consumed whole as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale. It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal.

Linga

Linga

English name: Sesame Scientific name: Sesamum indicum

It is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. It is an annual plant growing to 50 to 100 cm tall, with opposite leaves 4 to 14 cm long with an entire margin; they are broad lanceolate, to 5 cm broad, at the base of the plant, narrowing to just 1 cm broad on the flowering stem. The flowers are white to purple, tubular, 3 to 5 cm long, with a four-lobed mouth.