Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants Volume 6, Fruits [Hardcover]

This book continues as volume 6 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers edible fruits/seeds used fresh, cooked or processed into other by-products, or as vegetables, cereals, spices, stimulant, edible oils and beverages. It covers selected species from the following families: Sapindaceae, Sapotaceae, Schisandraceae, Solanaceae, Thymelaeaceae, Urticaceae, Vitaceae and Winteraceae. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, 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 and pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and research findings; nonedible uses; and selected references.

Volume six of Springers comprehensive guide to the medicinal and nutritional properties of plant species focuses on selected fruits including Sapindaceae and Vitaceae. The contents include taxonomies, color illustrations, and pharmacological data.

Introduction.- Sapindaceae.- Blighia sapida.- Dimocarpus fumatus subsp. Fumatus.- Dimocarpus longan subsp.? longan var. Longan.- Dimocarpus longan subp.? malesianus var. Echinatus.- Dimocarpus longan Lour. subsp. malesianus? var. malesianus.- Lepisanthes alata.- Lepisanthes fruticosa.- Litchi chinensis.- Nephelium cuspidatum var. robustum.- Nephelium lappaceum.- Nephelium maingayi.- Nephelium ramboutan-ake.- Paullina cupana.- Pometia pinnata.- Sapotaceae.- Chrysophyllum cainito.-