| Description |
xx, 239 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Glossary -- Introduction -- Grain crops -- Sugar crops and sago -- Oil crops -- Nuts -- Exotic water plants -- Legumes -- Fruits -- Beverage crops -- Vegetable fruits -- Spices and flavourings -- Herbs -- Salad crops -- Leaf vegetables -- Stem, inflorescence, and bulb vegetables -- Root vegetables -- Tropical root crops -- Seaweeds -- Mushrooms -- Wild food plants -- Nutrition and health -- Nutrition tables |
| Summary |
Discusses edible plants, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices, that grow throughout the world, relating their historical and current uses, and their nutritional values |
| Analysis |
Food plants |
| Notes |
Rev. and updated edition of: The Oxford book of food plants / illustrations by B.E. Nicholson. 1969 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index |
| Subject |
Food crops.
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Fruit -- Varieties.
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Plants, Edible.
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Vegetables -- Varieties.
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| Author |
Geissler, Catherine.
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Nicholson, Barbara.
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Nicholson, Barbara.
Oxford book of food plants
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| LC no. |
97006803 |
| ISBN |
0198505671 |
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0198548257 |
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9780198505679 |
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9780198548256 |
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