Food Plants of China
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9789622018600
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; National & regional cuisine; Regional - General; Botany (Specific Aspects); Horticulture (Specific Aspects); Gardening; Science; Gardening/Plants; China; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany; Agriculture - General; Plants, Edible
First sentence: The plants eaten by the Chinese people for survival and for pleasure cover a wide range in the plant kingdom, from a thalloid and a filamentous nostocs, the lowest organisms with prokaryotic cells (Monera), to the highly evolved species of orchids.