Gardens of OceaniaIntro -- Contents -- Book -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Glossary of terms -- Agriculture and cultivated places -- Root and tuber crops -- Trees, shrubs and bushes -- Climbing plants -- Herbaceous plants -- Index of generic names -- Index of common names -- Table of contents of book -- Table of contents -- Summaries of contents of book and CD -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Glossary of terms -- Agriculture and cultivated places -- Gardens -- Rainfed gardens and cultivation of burnt areas -- Yam gardens -- Taro gardens -- Irrigated cultivation -- Other types of garden -- Fruit arboriculture -- Trees of the village -- Paths and tracks -- Commercial plantations -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cocoa -- Kava -- Urban markets and places for foraging -- Urban markets -- Urban gardens -- Foraging -- Root and tuber crops -- Alocasia macrorrhiza : elephant's ear -- Amorphophallus campanulatus : elephant foot yam -- Colocasia esculenta : taro -- Cordyline terminalis : cordyline -- Cyrtosperma chamissonis : giant swamp taro -- Dioscorea alata : winged or greater yam -- Dioscorea bulbifera : air potato or aerial yam -- Dioscorea esculenta : Chinese or lesser yam -- Dioscorea nummularia : Pacific or hard yam -- Dioscorea pentaphylla : five-fingered yam -- Dioscorea rotundata-cayenensis : African or white yam -- Dioscorea trifida : cushcush or Indian yam -- Ipomoea batatas : sweet potato -- Manihot esculenta : cassava -- Pueraria lobata : kudzu -- Xanthosoma sagittifolium : tannia -- Trees, shrubs and bushes -- Abelmoschus manihot : island cabbage or aibika -- Annona muricata : soursop -- Annona reticulata : bullock's heart -- Annona squamosa : sweetsop -- Artocarpus altilis : breadfruit -- Averrhoa carambola : star fruit -- Cajanus cajan : pigeonpea -- Carica papaya : papaya -- Caryota ophiopelis : snakeskin palm. |
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Glossary of terms | 21 |
Other types of garden | 47 |
Urban markets | 53 |
Root | 114 |
Index of generic names | 299 |
| 305 | |
tuber crops | 324 |
GARDENS OF OCEAΝΙΑ | 326 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abelmoschus manihot Alimentary Allium Annona Asia banana bean Bislama Brassica oleracea Brassica rapa breadfruit BUSHES GARDENS cabbage Capsicum CD-ROM Citrus cm in diameter cm long colour Complementary food plant cooked corm Cucurbita cultivars Cultivation and production Description Dioscorea dishes edible English esculenta flesh flowers foraged species forms French fruits GARDENS OF OCEANIA genus genus comprises gourd green Greindl grow grown harvested HERBACEOUS PLANTS GARDENS inflorescence introduced to Vanuatu Ipomoea aquatica islands kava lap-lap leaf Lebot lobes Manihot markets minor species Morphological variability ni-Vanuatu nowadays numerous OCEANIA Ochse & Bakhuizen onion orange papaya Papua New Guinea petiole Plant occasionally eaten Polyscias Port Vila present in Vanuatu propagated PROSEA Purseglove 1991 region ROOT AND TUBER Santo sativus seeds shape SHRUBS AND BUSHES Smartt & Simmonds soil Species present spread stalk stem sweet potato taro tree tropical tubers Vanuatu varieties vegetable villages Weightman 1989 wild yellow young leaves Zeven



