Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants 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. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists, and general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/ vernacular names; origin/ distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts/uses; botany; nutritive/medicinal properties, nonedible uses and selected references.
Author(s): T. K. Lim (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 1036
Tags: Plant Sciences; Agriculture; Biomedicine general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Biodiversity; Chemistry/Food Science, general
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-95
Sagittaria trifolia ....Pages 96-102
Allium ampeloprasum ....Pages 103-123
Allium cepa ....Pages 124-203
Allium chinense ....Pages 204-209
Allium sativum ....Pages 210-360
Arracacia xanthorrhiza ....Pages 361-366
Apium graveolens var. rapaceum ....Pages 367-373
Daucus carota ....Pages 374-416
Pastinaca sativa ....Pages 417-428
Alocasia macrorrhizos ....Pages 429-442
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius ....Pages 443-453
Colocasia esculenta ....Pages 454-492
Cyrtosperma merkusii ....Pages 493-497
Xanthosoma sagittifolium ....Pages 498-509
Panax ginseng ....Pages 510-619
Asparagus cochinchinensis ....Pages 620-626
Cordyline fruticosa ....Pages 627-632
Ophiopogon japonicus ....Pages 633-654
Arctium lappa ....Pages 655-686
Helianthus tuberosus ....Pages 687-716
Smallanthus sonchifolius ....Pages 717-734
Tragopogon porrifolius ....Pages 735-740
Ullucus tuberosus ....Pages 741-745
Armoracia rusticana ....Pages 746-760
Brassica napus var. napobrassica ....Pages 761-767
Brassica oleracea (Gongylodes Group)....Pages 768-776
Brassica rapa var. rapa ....Pages 777-788
Eutrema japonicum ....Pages 789-800
Lepidium meyenii ....Pages 801-828
Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus ....Pages 829-869
Codonopsis javanica ....Pages 870-873
Codonopsis lanceolata ....Pages 874-889
Back Matter....Pages 890-1036
