The Use of Wild Edible Plants in Western and Central Anatolia (Turkey)

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

doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058[0684:tuowep]2.0.co;2

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“…However since our study relates solely to wild plants used for nutrition, this information was not included in Tab. [1,[31][32][33]36,[40][41][42][43]47,69,71,78].…”

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Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey)

Bulut

2016

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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Medicinal and wild food plants have always played an important role in people's lives especially in rural areas. Similar situation can be said for islands due to the reason of them being isolated from mainland. This paper reports an ethnobotanical investigations performed in 2009 and 2014 to determine medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island. A total of 30 individuals were interviewed (19 men, 11 women). Totally, 22 plants are recorded as used as traditional folk medicine for the region, and nine of these are also used as a source of wild food. Furthermore, 18 taxa are wild sources of nutrition for the area. The plants most commonly used in the region as medicinal remedies were Salvia fruticosa, Hypericum perforatum, Ficus carica, and Mentha spicata. Plants are mostly used for the treatment of abdominal pain, the common cold, and haemorrhoids. The species most commonly used for food are: Salvia fruticosa, Arbutus unedo, Rhus coriaria, and Rubus sanctus. This ethnobotanical study conducted in this island will enable the traditional use of wild plants both as food sources and herbal remedies to be passed on to future generations.

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“…However since our study relates solely to wild plants used for nutrition, this information was not included in Tab. [1,[31][32][33]36,[40][41][42][43]47,69,71,78].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey)

Bulut

2016

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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“…En Europe, il est connu l'usage alimentaire d'environ 1600 espèces sauvages, ce qui représente 13% de toute la flore (Couplan 1995(Couplan , 2009) et autant d'espèces sont connues dans la région méditerranéenne (Le Floch 1983;Ertug 2000Ertug , 2004Dogan & al. 2004;Della & al.…”

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Les plantes alimentaires de la Sardaigne: un patrimoine ethnobotanique et culturel d’ancienne origine

2017

Fl. Medit.

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The traditional practice of collecting wild edible plants is still active especially in small communities and has a great interest today at the scientific and cultural level. The revaluation of wild plants is of considerable importance not only for nutrition, but also to meet the "desire for nature", which appears increasingly marked, especially in large cities. This research on Sardinian food plants takes into account the existing literature from the first mentions by Greek and Latin authors and the ancient medieval Condaghes, a kind of ecclesiastical register of businesses, in the early centuries of the second millennium. In times closer to us, thanks to Fara, Manca dell'Arca, Moris we have important information about the use of cultivated and wild plants in the past. Especially at the end of the last century and in recent years, a large amount of very detailed data on the use of plants in the whole of Sardinia, offers the opportunity to attempt a synthesis of this field. 223 species are considered according to the parts used (bulbs, rhizomes, tubers, tuberous roots, basal leaves, stems, inflorescences, flowers, fruits, seeds, biological forms). In addition, a local name for each species is seleced. Of the 41 plant families included, the most important are: Asteraceae, Rosaceae, Brassicaceae, Phaseolaceae, Liliaceae (including Alliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asphodelaceae, Ruscaeae), Apiaceae and Lamiaceae. The grasses (annuals and perennials) constitute 57% of the total. The richness of local names and their variants has a great cultural significance that ranges from plant geography to systematics, ethnography to history and human migration, plant names to the evolution of languages, the domestication of plants to the regional cuisine and to the traditional medicine of a region. That is why food plants of Sardinia are a distinctive cultural heritage of this region, but strictly linked to the common history of the Mediterranean countries.

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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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The Use of Wild Edible Plants in Western and Central Anatolia (Turkey)

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Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey)

Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey)

Les plantes alimentaires de la Sardaigne: un patrimoine ethnobotanique et culturel d’ancienne origine

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

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