Gnetum gnemon.

Botanical name: 

Gnetum gnemon Linn. Gnetaceae.

Malay. The seeds are eaten in Amboina, roasted, boiled or fried, and the green leaves are a favorite vegetable, cooked and eaten as spinach.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.