Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary

Authors - James Alan Duke, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, and Herbarium Amazonense, Iquitos, Peru

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April 1994, 224 pp., ISBN: 0-8493-3664-3

The Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary presents an exciting new rainforest book, designed and conceived in the rainforest and dedicated to its preservation. The book contains concise accounts of the various uses to which prominent Amazonian plants are put by the local rainforest inhabitants. Although emphasis is placed on plant foods and forest medicines, there is also commentary on other relevant applications, including natural artifacts, house construction, natural pesticides, and ornamental and fodder plants. More than 1,000 species are covered and over 200 illustrated. An index to Spanish and English names leads to the scientific name, and the index to plants provides its medicinal application. There are even suggestions on how to eat palm grubs and how to make an Amazonian salad dressing. All royalties from the book are donated to the Amazonian Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) in order to continue its preservation of one of the world's most diverse forests.

Features

• Over 200 line illustrations of useful Amazonian plants
• Concise discussion of the use of approximately 20% of the plants of Amazonian Peru
• An index equating most local, Spanish, and dialectic names with generic names
• An index indicating which genera are used for which diseases
• Concise discussion of local construction materials in Amazonia

For students and researchers of botany as well as ecotourists.

Contents

• Introduction
• Alphabetical Listing of Plants
• Index of Common Names
• Medicinal Index
• Major References