Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest
eBook - ePub

Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest

Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

  1. 500 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest

Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

About this book

A guide to useful Southwestern wild plants, including recipes, teas, spices, dyes, medicinal uses, poisonous plants, fibers, basketry, and industrial uses.

All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don't know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas.

Extensively illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color photos, this book includes the following special features:

·       Recipes for foods made from edible wild plants

·       Wild teas and spices

·       Wild plant dyes, with instructions for preparing the plants and dying wool, cotton, and other materials

·       Instructions for preparing fibers for use in making baskets, textiles, and paper

·       Information on wild plants used for making rubber, wax, oil, and soap

·       Information on medicinal uses of plants

·       Details on hay fever plants and plants that cause rashes

·       Instructions for distinguishing edible from poisonous berries

Detailed information on poisonous plants, including poison ivy, oak, and sumac, as well as herbal treatments for their rashes

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Plates
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Preface to the Revised Edition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Edible and Useful Wild Plants of the Southwest
  13. 2. Plants as Medicine
  14. 3. Teas and Spices
  15. 4. Edible and Poisonous Berries and Other Fleshy Fruits
  16. 5. Poisonous and Harmful Plants
  17. 6. Mushrooms: To Eat or Not to Eat
  18. 7. Colorful Dyes with Southwestern Plants
  19. 8. Fibers and Baskets from Southwestern Plants
  20. 9. Rubber, Wax, Oil, and Soap: Industrial Resources
  21. Appendix: Fifty Important Edible Wild Native or Naturalized Plants
  22. Glossary
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index