The mango, lichen, pear and orange are indigenous, and several fruits and esculents have been introduced.
Esculents), the banana, sweet potato, yam, bread-fruit and cocoa-nut.
This is derived chiefly from Lecanora esculents, which grows unattached on the ground in layers from 3 to 6 in.
When watering becomes necessary for kitchen-garden crops, the hose should be laid on and the lines of esculents allowed to drink their fill, if fresh succulent vegetables are desired.
Rhubarb and sea-kale among esculents both need to be forced in darkness to keep them crisp and tender, and mushrooms also are always grown in dark structures.
Under this head are included those esculents which are largely eaten as " vegetables " or as " salads."
==Reptiles and Amphibians== Very little naturalization has been effected, or indeed apparently attempted, in regard to these groups, but the occurrence of the edible frog of the continent of Europe (Rana esculents) as an introduced animal in certain British localities is well known.
9, and of a frog (Rana esculents), fig.
