Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada
Published by Lone Pine.
Rating: ****
Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada is a comprehensible, organized guide that is interesting and easy to use. It gives information on many recognizeable species, and has all the appropriate warnings.
It has details on historic use of plants such as pines, ferns, and birches among other trees shrubs and herbs. Also included is a photo, description and toxic effects of each plant in the book. Though the information in the book should not be put to practice without nessecity, it gives a better understanding of the nature/ wildlife around you.
Aside from the new understanding associated with the book, it is interesting to see how much of nature can be used to our advantage, with the proper knowlege. The book may also have a point about the versatility of evolution in that the most similar plants are far more diffrent than it seems at first glance with painful, hair like barbs or toxic chemicals. This point is made again in the suggestion that the potency of dangerous effects in the same sort of plant may range from case to case.
I wood recomend leafing through the guide to anyone looking for a closer connection to their outdoor surroundings.
Andy MacKinnon [et al].
Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada.
Published 2009. Print.
That pun though!
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