Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants

1 About this book

This book continues as volume 9 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers such plants with edible modified storage subterranean stems (corms, rhizomes, stem tubers) and unmodified subterranean stem stolons, above ground swollen stems and hypocotyls, storage roots (tap root, lateral roots, root tubers), and bulbs, that are eaten as conventional or functional food as vegetables and spices, as herbal teas, and may provide a source of food additive or nutraceuticals.

This volume covers plant species with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae, Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail.

The edible species dealt with in this work include wild and underutilized crops and also common and widely grown ornamentals.

Good for readers who want: the environment and a long read.

• Medicinal plants
• Botany
• Life Sciences
• Medicine
• Ecology
• Vegetable Materia medica
• Identification (Psychology)
• Composition