Tree and Treelike Vegetables

This handbook is a heterogeneous group of 8 quite important crops. Though 'curry leaf' is not a vegetable but adds flavour in cuisines. Just emerged bamboo shoots are a delicacy in pickling and as cooked vegetable but only to a very limited areas of the country. Mahua falls under Plantation Crops but arils of its raw mature fruits are used as a delicious vegetable. Roots, leaves, flowers and most important the drumsticks are used as a highly nutritious vegetable even when cooked in pulses. Banana, jackfruit and breadfruit are used as ripened fruits as well as tasty vegetables when raw. Kachnar is a floral vegetable where its flower buds are cooked as vegetable and for preparing 'raayata'. This 'This book' will serve as a guide to horticultural professionals, horticultural officers, students of horticulture [B.Sc. (Ag.) Hort.; M.Sc. (Ag.)] as well as those students offering courses in Fruits & Vegetables at Ph.D. levels. Scientists working on fruits or vegetables as well as concerned teachers will also find this book a boon in their endeavours.