The Healing Forest
Subtitle: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Historical, Ethno-& Economic Botany, Vol 2)
Publisher: Dioscorides Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780931146145
Subjects: Anthropology; Botany & plant sciences; Deforestation; Forests, rainforests; Reference; Materia medica, Vegetable; Science/Mathematics; Medical Botany; Science; Nature; Poisonous plants; Amazon river; General; Life Sciences - Botany; BOTANY_SOUTH AMERICA; ETHNOBOTANY; INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA_MEDICINE; Anthropology - Cultural; Amazon River Valley; Encyclopedias; Medicinal plants
First sentence: This is a large family comprising over 250 genera and at least 2500 species, mainly tropical but occurring also in Australia, the Mediterranean region and the United States.