Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 7, Flowers

Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 7, Flowers
ISBN-10
9400773951
ISBN-13
9789400773950
Series
Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants
Category
Science
Pages
1102
Language
English
Published
2013-11-08
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
T. K. Lim

Description

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers plant species with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Facaceae in a tabular form and seventy five selected species from Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae, Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvulaceae, Costaceae, Doryanthaceae and Fabaceae in detail. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts and uses; botany; nutritive/pharmacological properties, medicinal uses, nonedible uses; and selected references.

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