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Table 7 The relative food potential value of five wild edible plants

From: Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Burji District, Segan Area Zone of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia

No.

Wild edible plant

Time in which the food is used

Ip

Iu

FL

FL%

Ra

1

Arisaema schimperianum

To supplement the staple food

43

43

1

100

1st

2

Rhus tenuinervis

To fill the gap

28

31

0.9

90

4th

3

Ficus sur

To fill the gap

23

25

0.92

92

3rd

4

Carissa spinarum

To fill the gap

22

23

0.96

96

2nd

5

Syzygium guineense

To fill the gap

16

18

0.89

89

5th