Bøger af Charles B. Heiser

Offers scientific information and folklore about gourds. Mankind has had a long association with these plants - the bottle gourd or calabash may have been our first cultivated plant. Although now grown in the USA for ornamental purposes, the gourd has important uses elsewhere in the world.

Pumpkins, totora, chenopods, lupines and peppers are some of the plants discussed and presented for study in this book. Most of the plants are from the Andes, and all are found in North and South America. Topics such as the importance of taxonomy and the dispersal of plants are discussed.