Edible Medicinal And Non Medicinal Plants - T K Lim Gebunden

Volume 10 is part of a multi compendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners pharmacologists ethnobotanists horticulturists food nutritionists botanists agriculturists conservationists and general public. 59 plant species with edible modified stems roots and bulbs in the families Amaranthaceae Cannaceae Cibotiaceae Convolvulaceae Cyperaceae Dioscoreaceae Euphorbiaceae Fabaceae Iridaceae Lamiaceae Marantaceae Nelumbonaceae Nyctaginaceae Nymphaeaceae Orchidaceae Oxalidaceae Piperaceae Poaceae Rubiaceae Simaroubaceae Solanaceae Tropaeolaceae Typhaceae and Zingiberaceae. Topics covered include: taxonomy common vernacular names origin distribution agroecology edible plant parts uses botany nutritive medicinal properties nonedible uses and selected references.