People's Plants: A Guide to Useful Plants of Southern AfricaPeople's Plants is a photographic guide to the useful plants of Southern Africa. Traditional and contemporary uses of more than 650 plants are described and illustrated in 20 chapters, each dealing with a specific category of plant use. More than 530 photographs. |
Contents
FOODS DRINKS CHAPTER 1 CEREALS | 9 |
SEEDS NUTS | 19 |
FRUITS BERRIES | 33 |
Copyright | |
18 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
People's Plants: A Guide to Useful Plants of Southern Africa Ben-Erik Van Wyk,Nigel Gericke No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
Afrikaans Aloe areas arrow poison Asteraceae attractive bark basket beer berries Bester boiled Botswana Breyer-Brandwijk buchu Cape Town capensis Chapter characteristic chewed clusters colour comm commercial common name crop culms cultivated Cunningham Cyperus dark brown decoctions diarrhoea dried eastern eaten edible essential oil ethnobotany Euphorbiaceae Eynden Fabaceae fibres fleshy flowers are followed fresh fruit grass green harvested herb important indigenous Kalahari Khoi known KwaZulu-Natal latex leaf leaflets leaves Malan marula mats Medicinal Plants metres in height millimetres mokola palm mopane Mozambique Namaqualand Namibia northern nuts occurs Owen-Smith pain palm pers Poaceae pods popular powdered root produce reddish rhizomes rooibos root infusion rural seeds shrub or small skin small tree Sotho South Africa southern Africa species stems stick stinkwood taken orally thatching timber toxic traditional medicine traditionally treat Tswana tubers vegetable widely distributed wild wood woody Xhosa yellow flowers Zimbabwe Zulu