Overview
- 200- 400 coloured illustrations per volume
- Referenced up-to-date-information on nutritive and medicinal properties
- Common and vernacular names to help in plant identification Medical and scientific glossaries
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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants
Book Subtitle: Volume 7, Flowers
Authors: T. K. Lim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7395-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7394-3Published: 09 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0253-7Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7395-0Published: 08 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 1102
Number of Illustrations: 123 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Biodiversity, Chemistry/Food Science, general