Plants Used as Natural Dye Sources in Turkey

Doğan, Yunus; Başlar, Süleyman; Mert, Hasan Hüseyin; Ay, Güngör

doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2003)057[0442:puands]2.0.co;2

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“…Doğan et al (2004), in a broad study of contemporary dye plant knowledge in Turkey, describe similar uses of all species except I. tinctoria, B. vulgaris, and Q. infectoria. Özgökçe and Yilmaz (2003) describe similar dyeing uses from Eastern Anatolia (Turkey) for the following species: V. vinifera, J. regia, R. tinctorum, R. lutea, and Rumex spp.…”

Section: Plant Use and Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Knowledge of Dye Plant Species and Natural Dye Use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq

Mati

Boer

2010

Econ Bot

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Contemporary knowledge of dye plant species and natural dye use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq In Kurdistan, natural dyes once played an important role in the life of nomads as they wild-crafted and traded natural dyes for their survival. They learned from their family how to find, harvest, process, and dye with natural dyes. Abandonment of weaving and the nomadic life, and recent changes in the economy have contributed to significant changes in the natural dyeing culture. Traditional knowledge of natural dyeing plants is no longer common among weavers. This study documents the surviving knowledge of dye plant species and assesses the transmission of knowledge between elderly weavers and a younger generation of weavers' apprentices. Information on dyeing and dyeing plants was elicited through a species recognition task using picture cards, a pile-sorting task, and through in-depth interviews with nomads in the mountains of the Soran district as well as weaving teachers and students in the city of Erbil, Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq. Consensus analysis of pile-sorting data supports the hypothesis that informants belong to a single culture. The results confirm the erosion of natural dyeing culture in Kurdistan and stress the need to stimulate knowledge transfer from the elderly, empirical generation to the younger, learning generation. The study also uncovered the existence of a keen interest among the student informants in traditional herbal medicine. If this trend is true for Kurdish urban youth in general, then it could lead to a revival and perpetuation of traditional plant knowledge.

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Section: Plant Use and Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Knowledge of Dye Plant Species and Natural Dye Use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq

Mati

Boer

2010

Econ Bot

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“…During the last decade, this relationship between people and the plants growing in their environment, in both a historical and socio-cultural context, has been the subject of many ethnobotanical studies in Turkey (Dogan et al, 2003;Dogan et al, 2004;Simsek et al, 2004;Dogan et al, 2008;Ugulu et al, 2009;Nedelcheva et al, 2011;. A large number of these studies relate to the use of wild plants as food (Ertug, 2004;Dogan et al, 2004, Ozbucak et al, 2006Kargioglu et al, 2010;Dogan, 2012), including wild edible plants sold on the open market .…”

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The Diversity of Plants Used for the Traditional Dish Sarma in Turkey: Nature, Garden and Traditional Cuisine in the Modern Era

2017

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The selection of leaves for sarma is the result of human experience and observation, and the transmission of traditional knowledge in areas with different species richness. Seventy-three taxa whose leaves are used to prepare sarma in Turkey are reported. The prevalent species are from Rumex (11), Salvia (5), Beta and Malva, (4), Alcea, Arum, Brassica, Morus, and Plantago (3). Wild herbaceous plants (69.5%) dominate. Trees (8) and shrubs (2) mostly belong to the Rosaceae, Moraceae, Betulaceae and Malvaceae. Grapevine and cabbage predominate, together with beet, dock, sorrel, horseradish, lime tree, bean, and spinach. The use of leaves of three endemics was recorded: Centaurea haradjianii, Rumex gracilescens, and Rumex olympicus. Some toxic plants are used after preliminary treatment, including those of Arum, Convolvulus, Tussilago and Smilax species. Colocasia esculenta is a novel sarma plant that has been involved to the cuisine in the last decade, following its introduction into Turkey.

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“…Several previous studies have described the traditional knowledge about the plants in the research area and the uses and different needs for them such as everyday household items, traditional crafts, etc. [8,[12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Traditionally used wild edible greens in the Aegean Region of Turkey

Doğan

2012

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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Turkey has the largest coastal area in the Mediterranean, possesses an extraordinarily rich flora, and a great traditional knowledge. This diversity of plants naturally affects the traditional use of plants and is reflected in the rich Turkish cuisine. Consequently, the Mediterranean Diet (whose typical components are wild greens) constitutes one of the important elements of Turkish cuisine. For this reason, the aim of this study was to determine the consumption of wild edible green plants for the Aegean Region of Turkey and to establish the similarities to or differences from consumption in other regions and other cuisine in the Mediterranean Basin. This study compiles and evaluates the ethnobotanical data currently available. There were 111 taxa that were identified as wild edible greens in the study area belonging to 26 different families. Asteraceae (21 taxa) were the most commonly consumed as food. It was followed by Boraginaceae with 19 taxa, Apiaceae with 15 taxa and Lamiaceae with 7 taxa, respectively. Rumex and Erodium were the most represented genera with 4 species. Tamus communis and Asparagus acutifolius, Mediterranean elements and distributed in all of the Mediterranean Basin, are among the most widely consumed wild plants in the area. Wild edible plants are consumed in a variety of ways. The most common type of consumption (79 taxa) was in salads. The fact that the majority of the plants used in the area are consumed in salads shows the close relationship between the local diet and the concept of the Mediterranean Diet. As a result, very promisingly, there is a renewed or increasing interest in consuming wild food plants as part of this diet.

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Plants Used as Natural Dye Sources in Turkey

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Contemporary Knowledge of Dye Plant Species and Natural Dye Use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq

Contemporary Knowledge of Dye Plant Species and Natural Dye Use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq

The Diversity of Plants Used for the Traditional Dish Sarma in Turkey: Nature, Garden and Traditional Cuisine in the Modern Era

Traditionally used wild edible greens in the Aegean Region of Turkey

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