Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest: Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

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Synopsis
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
Copyright:
2013

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
500 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780292754126
Related ISBNs:
9780292748279
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Delena Tull
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Science, Cooking, Food and Wine, Health, Mind and Body, Outdoors and Nature
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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