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Collection and cultivation of medicinal plants of Florida.

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Date Issued:
1946
Abstract/Description:
This bulletin is designed to give the average layman enough information to enable him to collect and place on the market a good quality of plant material for medicinal uses. Methods of collecting and curing of medicinal plants and the marketing of the products they yield are discussed. The range and habitats of specific plants along with detailed botanical descriptions are aimed at assisting in collection and curing efforts. Cultivation of other plants is also suggested.
Title: Collection and cultivation of medicinal plants of Florida.
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Name(s): Christensen, B. V. (Bernard Victor), 1885-1956
University of Florida School of Pharmacy.
Florida Dept. of Agriculture.
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1946
Publisher: State of Florida, Dept. of Agriculture
Place of Publication: Tallahassee, [Fla.]
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 74 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: This bulletin is designed to give the average layman enough information to enable him to collect and place on the market a good quality of plant material for medicinal uses. Methods of collecting and curing of medicinal plants and the marketing of the products they yield are discussed. The range and habitats of specific plants along with detailed botanical descriptions are aimed at assisting in collection and curing efforts. Cultivation of other plants is also suggested.
Table of Contents: Introduction -- General considerations -- Collection and curing -- Marketing crude drugs -- Prices -- Crude drug dealers -- Collections of medicinal plants -- Stillingia -- Ascelpias -- Gelsemium -- Stramonium -- Phytolacca -- Trilisa odoratissima (Walt.), Cass -- Dioscorea -- Baptisia -- Styrax -- Xanthoxylum -- Myrica -- Sabal -- Sambucus -- Cultivation of medicinal plants -- Medicinal plant garden -- Aloe -- Andropogon citrata and Andropogon flexuosa -- Carica papaya -- Koellia mutica -- Stamonium -- Mentha viridis -- Ricinum communis -- Zingiber -- Florida grown medicinal plants -- Primary list of medicinal plants -- Plant constituents and properties -- Secondary list of medicinal plants -- Twenty culinary herbs of Florida -- Plant life of Florida / C.T. Simpson.
Target Audience: general
Identifier: UF00002956 (iid), 49870421 (oclc), AAA3348 QF, 977097 (digitool), uf:104647 (fedora)
Note(s): by B.V. Christensen.
Title from cover.
"Prepared and published in cooperation with the School of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville."
"February, 1946."
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced from Collection in George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.
Subject(s): Medicinal plants -- Florida -- Collection and preservation
Medicinal plants -- Florida
Florida -- 12000
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002956.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002956.jpg
Host Institution: UF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)08889156
Is Part of Series: Bulletin (Florida. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no.14.