Manioc Collection

Cassava, manioc or tapioca, Manihot esculenta (Manihot utilissima). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Cassava, yuca or manioc plant, Manihot esculenta, Manihot edulis, Manioc. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Virginia opossum and cassava
Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana 1, and cassava or yuca, Manihot esculenta 2. Manicou (Didelphe a oreilles bicolores), Manioc

Cassava and sweet potato
Cassava or manioc, Manihot esculenta 1, and sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Cassava or manioc, Manihot esculenta (Manihot utilissima). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Woman preparing food from cassava plant, Brazil
Woman preparing food from a cassava or manioc plant, Brazil. The root of the plant is poisonous, but the poison can be extracted by squeezing the sap out by stretching and contracting. Date: 1922

Preparing bread from the manioc root
Natives of Madagascar preparing bread from the manioc root. Date: 1834

Preparing Manioc at Banghi in the Congo. Fufu, or cassava bread, is made in Africa by first pounding cassava (Manioc) in a mortar to make flour (as shown here)

Plants used as food
Illustration of arrowroot, manioc or cassava, yam and sweet potato. Plate 9 from Vegetable Kingdom 1872, by William Rhind

Cassava / Manioc
Cultivating cassava (also known as manioc) (manihot utilissima) in South America where it is a staple food

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