Re: Grocery Store Aroids

From: SNALICE <SNALICE at AOL.COM> on 1997.12.13 at 04:22:04(1741) Dear all, I ran across these pages and thought that some of you might be interested in them since the subject of food plants is up. These are database search engines for finding the use of plants for medicine and food including plants in the Araceae family. Native American Herbal, Plant Knowledge is the home base of the pages I mention in case you would like to check out ALL of the databases of which there are 6. Slide down to RESEARCH TOOLS. FoodPlantDB: classes ; +More PhytochemDB: classes and possibably the greatest interest, EthnobotDB: classes. This may be limited to North America, but not limited to North American Indians. I'm sure some of you can do a more educated search than I can since you are more familiar with the common names which the data bases seem to like better than the scientific names, but some of the plants I managed to find in one of the searches were these: Genus Acorus Arisaema Calla Colocasia Orontium Peltandra Spathyema I hope everyone enjoys this, Sue Zunino

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