- 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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- About this book
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Volume 8 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible flowers from Geraniaceae to Zingiberaceae (tabular) and 82 species in Geraniaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Oleaceae, Onagraceae, Orchidaceae, Paeoniaceae, Papaveraceae, Plantaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Primulaceae, Proteaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, Theaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Tyhpaceae, Violaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Zingiberaceae 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.
- Table of contents (76 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-71
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Pelargonium crispum
Pages 72-76
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Crocus sativus
Pages 77-136
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Freesia leichtlinii subsp. alba
Pages 137-140
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Gladiolus dalenii
Pages 141-143
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Table of contents (76 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants
- Book Subtitle
- Volume 8, Flowers
- Authors
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- T. K. Lim
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for India: CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-8748-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-8748-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8747-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0326-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 1024
- Number of Illustrations
- 283 illustrations in colour
- Topics