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The Oxford book of food plants

Title
The Oxford book of food plants / illustrations by B.E. Nicholson, text by S.G. Harrison, G.B. Masefield [and] Michael Wallis.
Author
Nicholson, Barbara.
Publication
London : Oxford University Press, 1969.

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Additional Authors
  • Harrison, S. G. (Sydney Gerald), 1924-
  • Masefield, G. B. (Geoffrey Bussell)
  • Wallis, Michael.
Description
viii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
Summary
The purpose of this book is to describe the plants which serve the human race for food, by accurate and attractive illustrations of 420 different plant varieties, accompanied by text notes which provide particulars of their origin, geographical distribution, botany, and nutritional value. There is special emphasis of the pars of the plant which are used for food.
Subject
  • Plants, Edible
  • Vegetables
  • Fruit
  • Plants, Cultivated
  • Plants, Edible
  • Vegetables
  • Fruit
  • fruit
Genre/Form
  • Encyclopedia
  • encyclopedias.
  • Encyclopedias.
  • Encyclopédies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Grain crops -- Sugar crops -- Oil crops -- Nuts -- Exotic water plants -- Legumes -- Fruits -- Beverage crops -- Fruit vegetables -- Spices and flavouring s -- Herbs -- Salad crops -- Leaf vegetables -- Stem, inflorescence and bulb vegetables -- Root vegetables -- Tropical root crops -- Sago and sugar palms -- Seaweeds -- Mushrooms and truffles -- Wild British food plants -- The domestication of food plants -- The spread of food plants round the world -- The uses and nutritional value of food plants.
ISBN
  • 0199100063
  • 9780199100064
LCCN
71458825
OCLC
  • ocm00070820
  • 70820
  • SCSB-125398
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library