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Title

The great cacti : ethnobotany & biogeography / David Yetman.

Author

Yetman, David, 1941-

Publication

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, c2007.

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Description

viii, 297 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"Yetman has been fascinated by columnar cacti for most of his life and now brings years of study and reflection to a wide-ranging and handsomely illustrated book. Drawing on his close association with the Guarijios, Mayos, and Seris of Mexico - peoples for whom such cacti have been indispensable to survival - he offers surprising evidence of the importance of these plants in human cultures. The Great Cacti review the more than one hundred species of columnar cacti, with detailed discussions of some 75 that have been the most beneficial to humans or are most spectacular. Focusing particularly or northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, Yetman examines the role of each species in human society, describing how cacti have provided food, shelter, medicine, even religiously significant hallocinogens."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Southwest Center series

Uniform Title

Southwest Center series.

Subject

• Saguaro > Southwestern States
• Cactus > Southwestern States
• Cactus > Mexico
• Cactus > South America
• Ethnobotany
• Cactus > Utilization
• Ethnobotany
• Southwestern United States
• Mexico
• South America

Genre/Form

Internet resource.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Great Cacti -- Uses of the Great Cacti -- Ecology, Columnar Cacti, and Deserts -- Distribution of the Great Cacti -- What Makes a Cactus? -- Ribs, Flowers, and Roots -- Origin, Evolution, and Taxonomy of Cacti -- The Future of the Great Cacti -- The Cacti -- Saguaros -- Pitayos and Pitayas: The Genus Stenocereus --The True Giants: The Genus Pachycereus -- Tetechos and Their Allies: The Genus Neobuxbaumia -- The Hairy and Bearded Cacti: Cephalocereus and Pilosocereus -- The Goblet Cacti: Jiotillos, Garambullos, Chendes, and Chichipes -- The Mexican Loners: Isolatocereus, Mitrocereus, and Backebergia -- The Pasacana and Its Andean Associates: Trichocereus, Stetsonia, and Oreocereus -- Espostoas -- The Tall Ones of Peru and Northern Chile: Neoraimondia, Weberbauerocereus, Corryocactus, and Eulychnia -- The San Pedro Cactus: Echinopsis pachanoi -- The Sausage Cacti: Armatocereus and Jasminocereus -- Azureocereus and Browningia -- The Cerei -- Pilosocereus and Other Bearded Cacti of Brazil -- The Hot Spots: Where the Great Cacti Are.

ISBN

• 9780816524310 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0816524319 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007013777

OCLC

122701679

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library