Aboriginal Plant Collectors

Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century

Philip A Clarke

This book explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the ....

Aboriginal People and their Plants

Philip A Clarke

This book will provide an overview of indigenous relationships to plants in Aboriginal Australia. The impetus for the book is largely drawn from the establishment of the new ....

Adaptive Management of Medicinal Plants and Non Timber Forest Products

Strategies, Implications and Policy

Edited by G Kinhal and RJ Rao

Non-Timber Forest Products, more particularly those of medicinal value are among major sources contributing to the economic development. These also play an important role in ....

Amazon River Fruits

Flavors for Conservation

Nigel Smith, R Vasquez and WH Wust

The western Amazon may well be the single richest edible fruit region in the world, and most of this flavorful biodiversity is found in wetlands. Some of wetland fruits are ....

Bamboo and Rattan in the World

Jiang Zehui

This monograph deals systematically with the distribution, classification, cultivation, processing and use of bamboo and rattan in the world. The book is divided into two ....

Biology of Citrus

P Spiegel-Roy and EE Goldschmidt

Biology of Citrus provides a concise and comprehensive discussion of all major developmental, genetic and horticultural aspects of citriculture in an easily readable ....

Biology of the Grapevine

MG Mullins, A Bouquet and LE Williams

Information on the evolution, taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, physiology and genetics of grapevines has been scarce and thinly spread in the literature on horticulture and the ....

The Biology of Horticulture

An Introductory Textbook

J Preece and PE Read

Botanical Medicine and Clinical Practice

Edited by RR Watson and VR Preedy

The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are becoming more widely recognised within ....

British Field Crops

A Pocket Guide to the Identification, History and Uses of Traditional and Novel Arable Crops in Great Britain

Sally A Francis

This field guide includes 90 different crops, including novel crops just beginning to be grown on Britain's farms; 150 clear botanical line drawings of leaves, flowers, seed ....

The Chocolate Tree

A Natural History of Cacao

Allen M Young

Young provides an overview of the fascinating natural and human history of one of the world's most intriguing commodities: chocolate. Cultivated for over 1,000 years in Latin ....

Chumash Ethnobotany

Native Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California

Jan Timbrook and Chris Chapman

A catalogue of plants with information culled from published sources about Chumash knowledge and use. With botanical watercolours by Chris Chapman. ....

Colonial Botany

Science, Commerce and Politicas in the Early Modern World

Edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan

Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of scholarly essays offers a lively challenge ....

Costa Rica: Medicinal Plants

Anabelle Maffioli and Julio C Sanchez

Laminated fold out pocket guide with illustrations of medicinal plants commonly found in Costa Rica. Descriptions of common uses in both English and Spanish are given. ....

Discovery of Medicinal Plant Products

A Handbook of Laboratory Methods

Edited by Y Kumarasamy and S Sarker

Natural products are an important source for drug development. Discovery of Medicinal Plant Products outlines in a succinct form the processes of drug discovery from plants ....

Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible

James A Duke, Peggy-Ann K Duke and Judith L duCellie

Readers have come to depend on Jim Duke's comprehensive handbooks for their ease of use and artful presentation of scientific information. Following the successful format of ....

Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America

JA Duke

The greatest diversity of plants in the world occurs in tropical Latin America, which is home to nearly 100,000 of the world's 300,000 known species. Despite this diversity, ....

Dye Plants and Dyeing

J Cannon and M Cannon

Forty-eight of the best known plants from which dyes can be extracted are here illustrated in colour, together with their structure, dye colours, cultivation and ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo I (Asteraceas) Genero Eupatorium Fasciculo 2

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describes the medicial uses of plants in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Each species is fully described and photographed. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo I (Asteraceas) Genero Eupatorium Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describes the medicial uses of plants in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Each species is fully described and ....

The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru

Margaret A Towle

Originally published in 1961 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. ....

Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

Bradford Angier and David K Foster

This illustrated guide to North American wild edibles has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable ....

Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants

Bradford Angier

This illustrated guide to North American wild medicinals has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K Foster revises Bradford Angier's ....

Flowers and Herbs of Early America

Lawrence D Griffith and Barbara Temple Lombardi

Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown ....

Flora Nativa: Arboles y Arbustos de Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay

Guia de Campo y Usos Medicinales Tomo II

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Fundamentals of Weed Science

Robert L Zimdahl

This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management,and strives to place them in an ecological framework. Many weed scientists ....

Grain Legumes

Evolution and Genetic Resources

J Smartt

This volume provides a wide-ranging survey of all the major grain legumes from the standpoint of both their evolution and their potential for further development and ....

The Great Cacti

Ethnobotany and Biogeography

David Yetman

Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to Argentina - often in ....

Guide to Cultivated Plants

Edited by Ton Elzebroek and Koop Wind

Representing almost 80 years of combined experience, Guide to Cultivated Plants includes concise textual descriptions and attractive full colour illustrations of over 300 crop ....

Herbal Plants of Jamaica

Monica Warner

Jamaican society has retained a particularly vibrant tradition of folk herbal (bush) medicine. The cache of native plants and practices used by the island's original ....

Herbs of Siddha Medicine, Volume 1

The First 3D Book on Herbs

J Raamachandran

Photo identification guide to 100 herbs found in the Tamil Naadu state in Southeast India. Each species account includes a description and methods of use. ....

The Identification of Medicinal Plants

A Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce

Wendy Applequist

This work describes morphological characteristics used to identify species of botanicals, specifically those that can be observed with a hand lens or dissecting ....

An Introduction to Plant Breeding

Peter Caligari and Jack Brown

A knowledge of how plants are bred is absolutely essential to all crop and plant scientists and is an integral part of all agriculture and plant sciences undergraduate ....

Irish Wild Plants

Myths Legends and Folklore

Niall MacCoitir and Grania Langrishe

In ancient Ireland it was believed there were 365 different parts to the body, and a different plant existed to cure the ailments of each part. After describing the history ....

List of Medicinal Plants in Mt. Gaoligong

Edited by Oian Zigang and Li Anhua

This book records 1298 species in 200 families of medicinal plants in Mountain Gaoligong, China. ....

Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 3: Fruits

National Research Council

This book is the third in a series evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes 24 ....

The Mango

Botany, Production and Uses

Edited by RE Litz

The mango is one of the oldest cultivated fruit crops, having been grown in India for at least 4000 years. Mango is the most important fruit crop of Asia and its annual ....

Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Harvesting, Drying, and Processing

Edited by Serdar Oztekin and Milan Martinov

Presents harvest and post-harvest mechanization methods for the profitable production of market-ready medicinal crops. This practical handbook includes photos, detailed figures, ....

Medicinal Plants of Britain and Europe

Wolfgang Hensel

Buy any two of the books belonging to Black's Nature Guide series and get the third free! Order all three and NHBS will remove the price of the third when processing your ....

Onions and Other Vegetable Alliums

James L Brewster

This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of the successful text, Onions and Other Vegetable Alliums, relates the production and utilization of these familiar and ....

The Peach

Botany, Production and Uses

Edited by Desmond R Layne and Daniele Bassi

The Peach provides a comprehensive up to date reference work, summarizing our knowledge of peaches and their production worldwide and includes an extensive colour ....

Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

Alan Hamilton and Patrick Hamilton

A comprehensive guide to plant conservation for layperson and professional, addressing major aspects of contemporary plant conservation, covering sociological, economic and ....

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 14

Vegetable Oils

Edited by HAM van der Vossen and GS Mkamilo

Deals with the plants of Tropical Africa yielding vegetable oils or fats. PROTA's database 'SPECIESLIST' presents 249 species used as such, but only 65 are 'primary use' ....

Postharvest

An Introduction to the Physiology and Handling of Fruit, Vegetables and Ornamentals

R Wills et al

Effective postharvest handling is critical in maintaining the quality and freshness of crops from the time when they are harvested to when they are sold to the consumer. ....

Propitious Esculent

The Potato in World History

John Reader

A highly readable exploration of the biology, history and social influence of our most humble and versatile foodstuff. Baked, roasted, boiled, mashed, steamed, french-fried ....

Remarkable Plants of Texas

Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives

Matt Warnock Turner

With some 6,000 species of plants, Texas has extraordinary botanical wealth and diversity. Learning to identify plants is the first step in understanding their vital ....

The Scots Herbal

The Plant Lore of Scotland

Tess Darwin

To our ancestors, there was no such thing as a weed. Every growing thing had a role to play in daily life - as an ingredient for food, as medicine, as a dye or as fodder for ....

Selection Methods in Plant Breeding

I Bos and P Caligari

Written for plant breeders, researchers and post-graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive review of the methods and underlying theoretical foundations used for ....

Sweet Potato

An Untapped Food Resource

JA Woolfe

The sweet potato is at present grown in more than 100 of the independent countries of the world. Most of the producer nations are situated in the tropical developing world ....

Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants, their Conservation and Sustainable Use

Proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Edited by Shahina Ghazanfar, A and Henk J Beentje

Based on the proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress held in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, this book brings together sixty research papers in separate sections on taxonomy, ....

Tomatoes and Tomato Products

Nutritional, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties

Victor R Preedy and Ronald R Watson

The tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a vegetable crop of the solanaceae family that originated in the Andean region of South America. It increased in popularity and was ....

Travelling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the ....

Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers

GR Dixon

Vegetable Brassica crops offer mankind the greatest diversity of useful products provided by any single plant genus. They deliver leaves, flowers, stems and roots used ....

Wild Food

Raymond Mears and Gordon C Hillman

In Wild Food, Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. One of the most ....