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Title

Fifty plants that changed the course of history / written by Bill Laws.

Author

Laws, Bill

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2010.

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Details

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.); 24 cm.

Alternative Title

50 plants that changed the course of history

Subjects

• Plants, Edible
• Medicinal plants
• Plants, Useful
• Plants and history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Agave (agave spp.) -- Onion (allium copa) -- Pineapple (ananas comosus) -- Bamboo (tribe: bambuseae) -- Wild cabbage (brassica oleracea) -- Tea (camellia sinensis) -- Hemp (cannabis sativa) -- Chili pepper (capsicum frutescens) -- Cinchona (cinchona spp.) -- Sweet orange (citrus sinensis) -- Coconut (cocos nucifera) -- Coffee (coffea arabica) -- Cilantro (coriandrum sativum) -- Saffron (crocus sativus) -- Papyrus (cyperus papyrus) -- Foxglove (digitalis purpurea) -- Yam (dioscorea spp.) -- Cardamom (elettaria cardamomum) -- Coca (erythroxylum coca) -- Eucalyptus (eucalyptus spp.) -- Ferns (phylum: filicinophyta) -- Soybean (glycine max).
• Upland cotton (gossypium hirsutum) -- Sunflower (helianthus annuus) -- Rubber (hevea brasiliensis) -- Barley (hordeum vulgare) -- Hop (humulus lupulus) -- Indigo (indigofera tinctoria) -- Sweet pea (lathyrus odoratus) -- Lavender (lavandula spp.) -- Crab apple (malus pumila) -- White mulberry (morus alba) -- Nutmeg (myristica fragrans) -- Tobacco (nicotiana tabacum) -- Olive (olea europaea) -- Rice (oryja sativa) -- Opium poppy (papaver somniferum) -- Black pepper (piper nigrum) -- English oak (quercus robur) -- Dog rose (rosa canina) -- Sugarcane (saccharum officinarum) -- White willow (salix alba) -- Potato (solanum tuberosum) -- Cacao (theobroma cacao) -- Common wheat (triticum aestivum) -- Tulip (tulipa spp.) -- Vanilla (vanilla planifolia) -- Wine grape (vitis vinifera) -- Corn (zea mays) -- Ginger (zingiber officinale).

ISBN

• 9781554077984 (hbk.)
• 1554077982 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2011414731

OCLC

• 664424170
• SCSB-11075448

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library