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Nat Quansah, Ethnomedicine, and the Madagascar Periwinkle
Ethnobotanist Nat Quansah discussing the healing powers of plants in Madagascar Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between plants and humans, including the use of plants for medicinal,...
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The Baobab as a water bottle: pragmatic, social, and ceremonial uses of the...
The JSTOR Plant Science team is fascinated not only by the plants we are lucky enough to peruse all day long, but also by the seemingly ancillary information attached to them as annotations,...
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Ethnobotany in Panama: axes, hoes, and beer ladles made from gourds
This will be a little on the short side in terms of post length, but I stumbled across an interesting article in JSTOR on the “Use of Native Tree Species by an Hispanic Community in Panama.” Since the...
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Nepal as ethnobotanical haven: medicinal plants for millennia
Nghe along the Barun Valley, Nepal. Made available by Dhilung under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Today we turn our attention towards Nepal, a landlocked country in Asia...
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The Medicinal Uses of Plants by the Akha in Northern Thailand
Ahead of my attending the 15th Flora of Thailand Meeting in November in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I was doing a bit of research on various plants, flora, and endemic species of Southeast Asia as we are...
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Artemisia annua and malaria: treatments from ancient China found in unearthed...
Artemisia annua, not unlike the specimen seen below from China, has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years to treat malaria. The specimen seen below was collected by George Forrest...
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The Natural History of Shakespeare: botanical sophistication is at a level...
Reading through the Open Library recently, I stumbled across and read the following book which reminded me a bit of this post: Slater, E. (1877). Natural history of Shakespeare being selection of...
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