Gardens of Oceania
Description:... Intro -- Contents -- Book -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Glossary of terms -- Agriculture and cultivated places -- Root and tuber crops -- Trees, shrubs and bushes -- Climbing plants -- Herbaceous plants -- Index of generic names -- Index of common names -- Table of contents of book -- Table of contents -- Summaries of contents of book and CD -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Glossary of terms -- Agriculture and cultivated places -- Gardens -- Rainfed gardens and cultivation of burnt areas -- Yam gardens -- Taro gardens -- Irrigated cultivation -- Other types of garden -- Fruit arboriculture -- Trees of the village -- Paths and tracks -- Commercial plantations -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cocoa -- Kava -- Urban markets and places for foraging -- Urban markets -- Urban gardens -- Foraging -- Root and tuber crops -- Alocasia macrorrhiza : elephant's ear -- Amorphophallus campanulatus : elephant foot yam -- Colocasia esculenta : taro -- Cordyline terminalis : cordyline -- Cyrtosperma chamissonis : giant swamp taro -- Dioscorea alata : winged or greater yam -- Dioscorea bulbifera : air potato or aerial yam -- Dioscorea esculenta : Chinese or lesser yam -- Dioscorea nummularia : Pacific or hard yam -- Dioscorea pentaphylla : five-fingered yam -- Dioscorea rotundata-cayenensis : African or white yam -- Dioscorea trifida : cushcush or Indian yam -- Ipomoea batatas : sweet potato -- Manihot esculenta : cassava -- Pueraria lobata : kudzu -- Xanthosoma sagittifolium : tannia -- Trees, shrubs and bushes -- Abelmoschus manihot : island cabbage or aibika -- Annona muricata : soursop -- Annona reticulata : bullock's heart -- Annona squamosa : sweetsop -- Artocarpus altilis : breadfruit -- Averrhoa carambola : star fruit -- Cajanus cajan : pigeonpea -- Carica papaya : papaya -- Caryota ophiopelis : snakeskin palm.
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