Subject: Plants and history: a question

From: [email-masked] (Lloyd Simmons)
Date: 15 Jun 1995 04:00:49 GMT

I would appreciate it if anyone in this newsgroup could direct me where I 
might be able to go on the internet to discuss with others the use of 
plants historically speaking.  For example, I live in Florida and have 
recently learned that the fruit of the Persimmons tree was used by Native 
North Americans as a pudding and in bread.  I am also interested in any 
literature you might be able to suggest.  Thank you!

Lloyd

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From: [email-masked] (Willaim H. Reid)
Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:38:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

> literature you might be able to suggest.  Thank you!

I don't know the right group but I'm interested.  You probably know that much of
the library material is under Ethnobotany, and there are monograpphs for
many cultural groups worldwide. There is a nice, general book I once used
for a sophomore level class for non-botnay majors called This Green World
by someone at the University of Vermont. (I have it somewhere but it's
been seven years).
Did you learn the recipe for persimmon bread? I may pass on the pudding.
Incidentally, take different recipes and cures with (tritely) a grain of
salt. In Juarez, Mexico a Senecio called Gordo Lobo (fat wolf I guess) is
widely used for stomach problems. However, I was told it also gradually
destroys the liver.
Bill Reid in Richland, Washington