Unconventional Food Plants from Brazil

Three stamps from a 2024 set of six featuring unconventional food plants. Plantas alimentícias não convencionais (PANC) is a Brazilian movement that promotes propagating and foraging for unconventional food plants. Unconventional in this case meaning local (to Brazil) and not mainstream. These are plants you are more likely to find in a backyard garden, a market or a forest and not in a large grocery store. The examples on these stamps are mangarito (a tuber), Barbados gooseberry and malabar spinach.