The only baobab from mainland Africa with a thick trunk for water storage. Performs well as a houseplant too.

This peanut plant produces peanuts with a black cover. Interesting to see and sweet tasting.

This unusual succulent forms a thick, belly-shaped stem and striking red-yellow flowers.

The cheese plant grows naturally in Central America as an epiphyte in trees. Seedlings grow towards the dark instead of light as they are looking for a tree to climb up.

The climbing onion has a peculiar climbing growth from a large green-brown bulb. Sugar reservoirs and water are stored in this bulb to survive drought periods.

Cocoa beans are the main ingredient for chocolate. They grow in a white pulp within the cocoafruit which grows on the stem of the cocoa tree. Can nicely be grown as an indoor...

The leaves of the curry tree are used in the Indian kitchen to make curries. The leaves can best be eaten fresh, and the plant can be grown as an indoor plant.

Overwhelmingly beautiful flower that looks like the famous giant arum in botanical gardens, but can easily be grown.

The peacock cress is a small shrub from India and Sri Lanka that can also bloom easily in a pot.

Kapok is like cotton, but it’s the seed fluff of the kapok tree. A tall, topical tree that performs well as a houseplant.

An annual plant with very aromatic leaves that taste like a combination of mint and apple. The leaves can be used as a vegetable in a variety of Korean dishes.

A tropical Amazonian palm with purple fruits that taste like sweet chocolate and contain an oil that resembles olive oil.

Grows quite pretty in a glass jar on the windowsill. Peanuts grow underground on stalks that grow from the flowers. 

The red-black seeds of this South African species are often used for necklaces and bracelets. A mixture of the roots and the bark would bring hunters luck.

The red mangrove is easy to keep as an aquarium or terrarium plant, but also grows well in a glass vase.

The Surinamese cherry is a 3 cm large berry with juicy, sweet and sour flesh.

The actual tabacco plant, of which tabacco has been produced for over hundreds of years.  It is a decorative plant with big leaves (up to 60 cm), that grows well as an annual...

An interesting plant to grow indoors, with small leaves that fold inward when touched or shaken. The movement is so fast that it scares away herbivores.

A special houseplant with fan shaped leaves. Travellers in Madagascar could use the plant as drinking water and as a compass.

The seeds have an important role in Hindu medicine, and grow in pods with velvety soft hairs. It is a tropical climbing plant that also grows well as an annual plant.

Wax gourds are large fruits from southeast Asia that can be added as a vegetable to all kinds of Asian dishes.

A tropical plant from the rainforest of Costa Rica, with decorative leaves and yellow flowers that have the shape of a windmill.

The yellow pitahaya or yellow dragonfruit is a delicious sweet fruit with a yellow peel and white pulp. Easy plant to take care of.