Author: Albert Charles Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Fijian Plant Studies
Author: Albert Charles Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Fijian Plant Studies
Author: Albert Charles Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Fijian Medicinal Plants
Author: RC Cambie
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
This comprehensive compilation presents the available reports on the medicinal use of Fijian plants in an attractive and readable form using 'everyday' terms as much as possible. The book covers the origin and dispersal of plants, literature, use of medicinal plants within traditional Fijian culture, diseases of Fiji, and medicinal chemicals from plants. Four hundred and fifty plant species are described.The entries for species are arranged by plant family, and give current botanical name, Fijian or local name, brief botanical notes, medicinal uses and chemistry. Separate indexes to plant species and Fijian names are provided, as well as a glossary of medicinal and botanical terms.This book may point the way to plants from which new and effective cures might be obtained.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
This comprehensive compilation presents the available reports on the medicinal use of Fijian plants in an attractive and readable form using 'everyday' terms as much as possible. The book covers the origin and dispersal of plants, literature, use of medicinal plants within traditional Fijian culture, diseases of Fiji, and medicinal chemicals from plants. Four hundred and fifty plant species are described.The entries for species are arranged by plant family, and give current botanical name, Fijian or local name, brief botanical notes, medicinal uses and chemistry. Separate indexes to plant species and Fijian names are provided, as well as a glossary of medicinal and botanical terms.This book may point the way to plants from which new and effective cures might be obtained.
Plants of the Fiji Islands
Author: John W. Parham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Plant Science Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
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Fijian Plant Studies
Author: A. C. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780527022471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780527022471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Plants Go to War
Author: Judith Sumner
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. Vegetables provided the wartime diet both in North America and Europe, where vitamin-rich carrots, cabbages, and potatoes nourished millions. Chicle and cacao provided the chewing gum and chocolate bars in military rations. In England and Germany, herbs replaced pharmaceutical drugs; feverbark was in demand to treat malaria, and penicillin culture used a growth medium made from corn. Rubber was needed for gas masks and barrage balloons, while cotton and hemp provided clothing, canvas, and rope. Timber was used to manufacture Mosquito bombers, and wood gasification and coal replaced petroleum in European vehicles. Lebensraum, the Nazi desire for agricultural land, drove Germans eastward; troops weaponized conifers with shell bursts that caused splintering. Ironically, the Nazis condemned non-native plants, but adopted useful Asian soybeans and Mediterranean herbs. Jungle warfare and camouflage required botanical knowledge, and survival manuals detailed edible plants on Pacific islands. Botanical gardens relocated valuable specimens to safe areas, and while remote locations provided opportunities for field botany, Trees surviving in Hiroshima and Nagasaki live as a symbol of rebirth after vast destruction.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. Vegetables provided the wartime diet both in North America and Europe, where vitamin-rich carrots, cabbages, and potatoes nourished millions. Chicle and cacao provided the chewing gum and chocolate bars in military rations. In England and Germany, herbs replaced pharmaceutical drugs; feverbark was in demand to treat malaria, and penicillin culture used a growth medium made from corn. Rubber was needed for gas masks and barrage balloons, while cotton and hemp provided clothing, canvas, and rope. Timber was used to manufacture Mosquito bombers, and wood gasification and coal replaced petroleum in European vehicles. Lebensraum, the Nazi desire for agricultural land, drove Germans eastward; troops weaponized conifers with shell bursts that caused splintering. Ironically, the Nazis condemned non-native plants, but adopted useful Asian soybeans and Mediterranean herbs. Jungle warfare and camouflage required botanical knowledge, and survival manuals detailed edible plants on Pacific islands. Botanical gardens relocated valuable specimens to safe areas, and while remote locations provided opportunities for field botany, Trees surviving in Hiroshima and Nagasaki live as a symbol of rebirth after vast destruction.
Fijian Plant Names
Author: B. E. V. Parham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Plant Science Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Geographical Guide to Floras of the World: Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and islands of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans
Author: Sidney Fay Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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