Photograph of tropical fruiting houseplants indoors, with green script title text.

Edible Houseplants: Grow Your Own Citrus Coffee Vanilla and 43 Other Tasty Tropical Plants

by Lauralynne G. Martin Author and Byron E. Martin Author

A colorful and easy to use guide to growing food-bearing plants in your own home. Your houseplants are cute, but are they tasty? They’re great decoration, but do they offer you groceries, too? Now you can grow your own fruiting and edible houseplants indoors with the help of this colorful guide to cultivating container tropicals. The expert owners of Logee's Plants for Home & Garden offer beginner-friendly advice on the care and keeping of plants like lemons, limes, grapefruit, cherries, olives, passion fruit, papaya, and more (often as fragrant as they are tasty), accompanied by beautiful color photography.