page_title: List of edible seeds
section_title: Legumes
hierarchical_section_title: List of edible seeds / Legumes
caption_attribution_description: English: seeds of Atriplex nummularia from Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Australia
context_page_description: An edible seed is a seed that is suitable for human or animal consumption. Of the six major plant parts, seeds are the dominant source of human calories and protein. A wide variety of plant species provide edible seeds; most are angiosperms, while a few are gymnosperms. As a global food source, the most important edible seeds by weight are cereals, followed by legumes, nuts, then spices.
  Cereals and legumes correspond with the botanical families Poaceae and Fabaceae, respectively, while nuts, pseudocereals, and other seeds form polyphylic groups based on their culinary roles.
context_section_description: A legume, or pulse, is the edible seed of a legume, a plant in the family Fabaceae. Legumes can be divided into grams, which do not split, and dals, which split.
  Although some beans can be consumed raw, some need to be heated before consumption. In certain cultures, beans that need heating are initially prepared as a seed cake. Beans that need heating include: 
  Acacia species (wattleseed), such as mulga (Acacia aneura), Halls Creek wattle (A. cowleana), southern ironwood (A. estrophiolata),  umbrella bush (A. ligulata), Murray's wattle (A. murrayana), curara (A. tetragonophylla), witchetty bush (A. kempeana), wiry wattle (A. coriacea), mallee golden wattle (A. notabilis), ranji bush (A. pyrifolia), bardi bush (A. victoriae), coastal wattle (A. sophorae), shoestring acacia (A. stenophylla), and pindan wattle (A. tumida).
  Atriplex nummularia – old man saltbush
  Brachychiton species, such as kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus), northern kurrajong (B. diversifolius),  desert kurrajong (B. gregorii), and red-flowered kurrajong (B. paradoxus).
  Bruguiera gymnorhiza – black mangrove
  Calandrinia balonensis – parakeelya
  Canarium australianum – mango bark
  Canavalia rosea – beach bean
  Entada phaseoloides – St. Thomas bean
  Eucalyptus species, such as tammin mallee (Eucalyptus leptopoda) and coolibah (E. microtheca)
  Marsilea drummondii – nardoo
  Portulaca species, such as common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and large pigweed (P. intraterranea)
  Nymphaea gigantea – giant waterlily
  Rhyncharrhena linearis – purple pentatrope
caption: Seeds of Atriplex nummularia, Australia
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