Wild food plants and wild edible fungi in two valleys of the Qinling Mountains (Shaanxi, central China)

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Yongxiang ^a   Łuczaj, Łukasz ^b   Kang, Jin ^a   Zhang, Shijiao ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Applied Biotechnology and Basic Sciences   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Ethnomycology; Non timber forest products; Wild edible plants

Indexed keywords

AKEBIA TRIFOLIATA; ALLIUM; AMARANTHUS; AURICULARIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CARDAMINE; CARDAMINE MACROPHYLLA; CARYOPTERIS DIVARICATA; CELASTRUS; CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; FUNGI; HELWINGIA JAPONICA; LENTINULA; PIMPINELLA; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; SCHISANDRA; SCHISANDRA SPHENANTHERA; STAPHYLEA BUMALDA; TOONA SINENSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGARICALES; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT; VEGETABLE; VERY ELDERLY; EDIBLE PLANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGARICALES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, EDIBLE; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84876153053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-9-26     Document Type: Article

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