Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants on plants with
edible modified stems roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32
selected species in Alismataceae Amaryllidaceae Apiaceae Araceae Araliaceae Asparagaceae
Asteraceae Basellaceae Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail. This work is of significant
interest to medical practitioners pharmacologists ethnobotanists horticulturists food
nutritionists botanists agriculturists conservationists and general public. Topics covered
include: taxonomy common vernacular names origin distribution agroecology edible plant
parts uses botany nutritive medicinal properties nonedible uses and selected references.
