Author: William Fawcett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Flora of Jamaica
Author: William Fawcett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica
Author: Ina Vandebroek
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030489272
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as “major” (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or “minor” (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030489272
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as “major” (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or “minor” (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.
Flora of Jamaica: Orchidaceae
Author: William Fawcett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Endemic Trees of Jamaica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766108816
Category : Endemic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766108816
Category : Endemic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Herbal Plants of Jamaica
Author: Monica F. Warner
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405065665
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume provides a well illustrated, easily read, and no-nonsense guide to Jamaican wild herbs and their several medicinal and related uses. The widespread cultural practice of using a multitude of healing, culinary, and cosmetic herbs is distilled to a core of about 70 species.
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405065665
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume provides a well illustrated, easily read, and no-nonsense guide to Jamaican wild herbs and their several medicinal and related uses. The widespread cultural practice of using a multitude of healing, culinary, and cosmetic herbs is distilled to a core of about 70 species.
Caribbean Wild Plants and Their Uses
Author: P. Narodny Honychurch
Publisher: MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN: 9780333409114
Category : Herbs
Languages : nl
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN: 9780333409114
Category : Herbs
Languages : nl
Pages : 166
Book Description
My Favorite Plant
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374281939
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Other contributors include: Hilton Als Mary Keen Ken Druse Duane Michals Michael Fox David Raffeld Ian Frazier Graham Stuart Thomas Daniel Hinkley Wayne Winterrowd
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374281939
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Other contributors include: Hilton Als Mary Keen Ken Druse Duane Michals Michael Fox David Raffeld Ian Frazier Graham Stuart Thomas Daniel Hinkley Wayne Winterrowd
Flora of Jamaica: Dicotyledons [pt.1], families Piperaceae to Connaraceae
Author: William Fawcett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Flora of Jamaica: Dicotyledons [pt.2], families Leguminosae to Callitrichaceae
Author: William Fawcett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Guide to Plants in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica
Author: Susan Iremonger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766400316
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A nature guide for both botanists and the more casual observer, identifying over 400 species of plant found in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. More than 50 percent of the plants described occur only in these mountains and nowhere else in the world. There are colour photographs and line drawings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766400316
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A nature guide for both botanists and the more casual observer, identifying over 400 species of plant found in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. More than 50 percent of the plants described occur only in these mountains and nowhere else in the world. There are colour photographs and line drawings.