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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.
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