Geographical Guide to Floras of the World

Geographical Guide to Floras of the World
Author: Sidney Fay Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1942
Genre: Botanists
ISBN:

Annotated selected list of floras and floristic works relating to vascular plants, including bibliographies and publications dealing with useful plants and vernacular names.

Ethnobotany

Ethnobotany
Author: José L. Martinez
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1000839583

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stem from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs.

Stevia

Stevia
Author: A. Douglas Kinghorn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0203165942

Stevia rebaudiana is a remarkable South American plant that has become widely used in certain parts of the world as a natural sweetening agent and dietary supplement. Purified extracts of S. rebaudiana have been used as sweeteners and flavor enhancers in the food industry in Japan for over a quarter of a century, and have been found to be up to 300

Plantas Venenosas de Puerto Rico

Plantas Venenosas de Puerto Rico
Author: Esteban Núñez Meléndez
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780847723416

This impressive study contains five sections on poisonous plants from the tropics. Three of the sections are devoted to plants that provoke skin allergies. Contains 13 color plates.