Book ID: 42790
ABBIW, Daniel K.
Useful Plants of Ghana. (West African Uses of Wild and Cultivated Plants). 1990. XII,328 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Attempts to document as much as possible of the useful plant material from one country, and make it available to a wide public. The plants are divided by use into subjects such as food, fuel, potions and medicines, construction and weeds, and are listed by their scientific and Ghanaian vernacular names, and by their English ones if available. The book includes a selection of colour plates, made possible by a grant from a Quaker Trust. Industrial crops and plants of farms and gardens are included, but many of the uses are of local occurrence yet of grea tinterest to the ethnobotanist and biochemist.
Good second handcopy.