Winter 2000
WELCOME to Ethnobotanical Leaflets . Our Winter 2000 issue has a lot of new material. In Ethno News is a story about the balsameros of Acachapa, El Salvador and efforts underway to assist them in recovering their watershed from the devistation of Hurricane Mitch by Nadia Navarette-Tindall and Georgian Hartzog. Our Policy Corner has a new editorial entitled "A Call for an Economic Botany/Ethnobotany Cluster at NSF." Both stories invite your participation in events to come. The section on Worldwide Economic Botany Resources has an interesting link to "The Forests of the Sachama," a virtual Amazonian rainforest. Galleria Botanica features artist Lynette Rene Cook. Although her two websites reflect her strong interests in outer space, she is also adept at illustrating flowers. Her drawings combine in a very unusual but refreshing way the arts of botanical illustration with social commentary. There are also new links to the Swedish Museum, one to a page on fungal art commisioned by Elias Fries, the father of modern mycology, and another to a page on cryptogamic botany. Enjoy. As always, contributions from our readers are welcome.
Web Journal
--Your source of information on Economic Plants--
Camphor: A Diminishing Industry of Great Importance, by Amanda Boyd
Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives, by Angela Box
The Mango: Asia's King of Fruits, by Daniel G. Douthett
Passiflora, by Jeremy M. Ting
Peyote and Native American Culture, by Jennifer Majchrzak
The Lotus And The Nile, by Christopher Rutledge
Significance of Ginkgo biloba , by Nicole Young
The Neem Tree: The Village Pharmacy, by Loetitia S. Lilot
Back Issues of Ethnobotanical leaflets and Table of Contents Table of Contents
Fall 1997
Winter 1998
Summer 1998
Fall 1998
Spring 1999
Summer 1999
Fall 1999
Book Review Corner
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
The Shaman's Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin
Medicinal Plants of the Heartland by Connie Kaye and Neil Billington
Potions, Poisons, and Panaceas by David Brussell
Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants by P. Kenrick & P.R. Crane
Research Notes
Ethnobotanical Leaflets Starch Research Page
Agriboard, Use of Non-timber Cellulose for Construction
The Inclusive Herbarium by Edgar Anderson
How to Define a Species
Rain Forest Medicines, an interview with Mark Plotkin
Archaeological Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes in Peru, by D. Ugent & L.W. Peterson
Ethno News and Happenings
Post-Hurricane Watershed Restoration in Acachapa, El Salvador
Editorship of Economic Botany changes hands
Galleria Botanica
Three botanical images by Lynette Rene Cook
Hibiscus telescope by Lynette Rene Cook
Swedish Museum, Fungal Art
Swedish Museum, Cryptagamic Art
Wayne Renshaw, How to Model a Plant
Meetings
Society for Economic Botany: Home Page & News of Annual Meeting
Society for Ethnobiology, Ann Arbor
International Society for Ethnobiology, Athens, GA
Society for Ecological Restoration, Liverpool
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Lisbon
4th European Colloquium on Ethnopharmacology, Metz, France
Careers in Ethnobotany
Job Listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education
An Introduction to Ethnobotany by C. Veilleux and S.R. King
Graduate Programs in Ethnobotany
Undergraduate Studies in Ethnobotany
Policy Corner
Call for Economic Botany/Ethnobotany Cluster at NSF by MKVZant
Editorial Policy
Worldwide Economic Botany Resources
Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL)
NYBG Society for Economic Botany Home Page
Amazon Rain Forest Includes Ethno-herpatology
The Gatherer: Plant Use Multiple Database Search Engine
Editor's Page, Society for Economic Botany
People and Plants Online
Seed Savers Exchange
Cyberbotanica: Plants and Cancer Treatments
Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops
New Crop Resource Online Program
WWW Ethnobotany Resource Directory
Internet Directory for Botanical Illustrations
Kew's list of over 200 Web sites of interest to economic botanists
Economic Botany Web Pages, from the Internet Directory for Botany
Ethnobotany Database, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Native American Food Plants, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Medicinal Plants of Native Americans, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Phytochemicals, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Related Web Pages
Plants and Society (Plb 117)
Don Ugent's Home Page
Southern Illinois University Herbarium
Protocells: The Origin of Life
Tropical Dinoflagellates
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