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Ethnobotany of Food Plants in the High River Ter Valley (Pyrenees, Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula): Non-Crop Food Vascular Plants and Crop Food Plants with Medicinal Properties.
25 p.[EN] The present study reports a part of the findings of an ethnobotanical
research project conducted in the Catalan region of the high
river Ter valley (Iberian Peninsula), concerning the use of wild
vascular plants as food and the medicinal uses of both wild and
cultivated food plants. We have detected 100 species which are or
have been consumed in this region, 83 of which are treated here
(the remaining are the cultivated food plants without additional
medicinal uses). Some of them, such as Achillea ptarmica subsp.
pyrenaica, Convolvulus arvensis, Leontodon hispidus, Molopospermum
peloponnesiacum and Taraxacum dissectum, have not been
previously reported, or have only very rarely been cited or indicated
as plant foods in very restricted geographical areas. Several
of these edible wild plants have a therapeutic use attributed to
them by local people, making them a kind of functional food. They
are usually eaten raw, dressed in salads or cooked; the elaboration
of products from these species such as liquors or marmalades is
a common practice in the region. The consumption of these
resources is still fairly alive in popular practice, as is the existence.Peer reviewe