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Civano Landscape Design Guidelines

Recommended Edible Plant List

Native Edible Plant List

The following native edible plants are appropriate for most areas of the site including front lots areas and common space. This list is in no way meant to be comprehensive.

Category

Botanical Name

Common Name

Cactus

Opuntia Engelmannii

Prickly Pear

Shrub

Capsicum annuum

Chiltepine Hot Pepper

Shrub

Lycium fremontii

Wolfberry

Tree

Prosopis velutina

Mesquite (beans are edible)

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Non-Native Edible Plant List

The following plants are appropriate non-native edible plants for Civano. They could be used in community gardens or orchards, rear lots and other appropriate areas of the site. They should not be used in common areas where native desert character is desired. Again, this list is in no way meant to be comprehensive.

Category

Botanical Name

Common Name

Shrub

Feijoa sellowiana

Pinnapple Guava

Tree

Citrus paradisi

Grapefruit (Ruby Red, Duncan, Marsh-insure varieties)

Tree

Citrus sp.

Citrus, all species

Tree

Eriobotrya japonica

Loquat

Tree

Ficus Carica

Fig Tree, (Black Mission, or Brown Turkey varieties)

Tree

Fortunella margarita

Nagami Kumquat

Tree

Laurus nobilis

Sweet Bay

Tree

Prunus ameniaca

Apricot (Royal, Blenheim varieties)

Tree

Prunus Persica

Peach Tree (Desert Gold variety)

Tree

Punica Granatum

Pomegranate (Fleishman, Wonderful, Tohono O'odham varieties)

Tree

Sambucus carnadensis

Elderberry

Vine

Passiflora sp.

Blue Crown Passion flower, AIncense

Vine

Vitus sp.

Grape vine (Flame seedless, Lomanto, Black Manukka, Thompson seedless, Italia)

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