Fruits of Oceania
ACIAR Monograph Series Number 85
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330 pages
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ACIAR
2002
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Description
The fruits and nuts of Oceania have been little studied to date. This book deals with those plants that are specifically Oceanian, i.e. were present in the region before the arrival of the first Europeans. It covers the woody species which, cultivated or wild, produce the great majority of fleshy and non-fleshy fruits of the Pacific. Four regions served as study areas for this work: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga.
The first two sections of the book deal with alimentation in Oceania and with traditional arboriculture. The last part of the book, and the most important, is the ethnobotanical inventory of individual species, arranged in alphabetical order of genera.
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