An Ethnobotanical Study of Wild Edible Plants in Tach Gayint District, South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 3

Result of preference ranking of five selected WEPs based on their taste and frequent consumption by the informants in the study area.

WEP species	Preference ranking of selected wild edible plants
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total	Rank
Ficus sur	1	2	3	2	1	2	1	3	3	1	19	4^th
Ficus vasta	2	1	3	1	2	3	1	4	2	3	22	2^nd
Opuntia ficus-indica	3	1	2	3	4	5	2	5	2	1	28	1^st
Urtica simensis	2	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	3	1	16	5^th
Ziziphus spina-christi	2	3	2	1	1	2	3	1	2	4	21	3^rd

1 = least; 2 = less; 3 = good; 4 = very good; 5 = excellent.