Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 7, Flowers [Hardcover]

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers plant species with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Facaceae in a tabular form and seventy five selected species from Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae, Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvulaceae, Costaceae, Doryanthaceae and Fabaceae in detail. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, 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/pharmacological properties, medicinal uses, nonedible uses; and selected references.

Introduction.- Amaryllidaceae.- Apocynaceae.- Asclepiadaceae.- Asparagaceae.- Asteraceae.- Balsaminaceae.- Begoniaceae.- Bignoniaceae.- Brassicaceae.- Cactaceae.- Calophyllaceae.- Caprifoliaceae.- Caryophyllaceae.- Combretaceae.- Convolvulaceae.- Costaceae.- Doryanthaceae.- Fabaceae.

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers? plants with edible flowers whose floral parts including the stalk and flower nectar? are eaten as conventional or functional food and may provide a source of food colorant, additive or neutraceuticals. This volume covers? plant species ?with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Fabaceae in? a tabular form? and? seventy five such species from the families Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae, Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvull“\