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Title: | Parallels in plant use in Africa and North America |
Author: | Hargreaves, Bruce J. |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 56-71 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | botany arable farming |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778454 |
Abstract: | The author compares the use of plants in Africa, specifically Malawi, with that in North America, from where they originated: maize, tubers, potatoes, grains, fruit trees, weeds, beans. He illustrates how biology, geography and culture interplay in the selection and spread of the plants. Special chapters are devoted to: fibre plants, plant chemicals, hallucsinogens. Ill., ref. |