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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants.
It should be available in libraries. There are a number of copies lists 
for sale on
http://www.bookfinder.com

Personally I am rather sceptical of the notion of a known number of 
edible plants, partly vecause of the reason that has been brought out in 
discussion, "edible under what circumstances?" and partly because it 
assumes that everything that local people or their ancestors know about
edible plants is known to mainstream academics, published and compiled 
in master lists. That's not the way that science works in practice.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Donna &/or Kieran wrote:
> I don't remember how to spell it, but there is an old book called 
> Sturvesants I think that endeavored to list all the known food plants 
> back about 1900.  There was a more recent book, Tanaka I think was the 
> guy's name, something like edible plants of the world. 

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