Bitterroot Restoration

Anacardium occidentale is a flowering plant. Cashew nuts are good sources of protein, mineral salt, iron and fiber. The leaves from the cashew tree can provide vitamin C, calcium and iron.

Blistering Ammannia is an erect, branched, smooth, slender, annual herb, found in open, damp, waste places. The fresh, bruised leaves have been used in skin diseases as a rubefacient and as an external remedy for ringworm and parasitic skin affection.

Amaranthus viridis is a cosmopolitan species in the botanical family Amaranthaceae. A traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known vegetable has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare.

Amaranthus spinosus is a pantropical and subtropical weed native to tropical America. The leaves of the plant are applied as a poultice to relieve bruises, abscesses, burns, wounds and inflammations.

Alternanthera sessilis is known as a noxious weed which grows on roadsides, ditches, swamps, gardens, rice fields and tea plantations .

Alstonia scholaris is a large tree, with smooth, entire, thick leaves disposed in whorls. The bark is used in homoeopathy for its tonic bitter and astringent properties; it is particularly useful for chronic diarrhoea and dysentry.

Alpinia nigra is a perennial rhizomatous herb, leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, up to 50 x 15 cm, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, some pubescence on either side of the midrib below, otherwise glabrous; ligule c. 0.5 cm long, rounded, entire, pubescent; sheaths glabrous. Inflorescence paniculate, pubescent, usually rather lax with remote cincinni.

Alpinia calcarata 'Snap Ginger'- A great looking medium height (4 to 5 feet) ginger, originally from India. A very vigorous grower that is cold hardy. Produces, on old growth, a nice raceme of white and maroon flowers that superficially resemble snapdragon flowers.

Aloe barbadensis, also known as the medicinal aloe, is a species of succulent plant. The species is popular with modern gardeners as a putatively medicinal plant and due to its interesting flowers, form and succulence. This succulence enables the species to survive in areas of low natural rainfall, making it ideal for rockeries and other low-water use gardens.

The underground stems of Alocasia Indica constitute a valu-able and important vegetable of native dietary. The stems sometimes grow to an immense size, from six to eight feet in length and can be preserved for a considerable time. Hence they are of great importance in jail dietary when fresh vegetables become scarce in the bazar or jail garden.