Wild Edible Fruits as a Source of Food and Medicine: A Study among Tribal Communities of Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Wild Edible Fruits as a Source of Food and Medicine: A Study among Tribal Communities of Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Botanical surveys in all parts of Pakistan are mainly focused on ethnomedicinal uses of plants, and very little attention has been paid to documenting edible wild fruit species (EWFs). Multiple methodologies and tools were used for data collection. In a recent survey 74 EWF species belonging to 29 f...

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Main Authors: Sheikh Zain Ul Abidin, Raees Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Alain Cuerrier, Muhammad Zafar, Asad Ullah, Jabbar Khan, Asma Saeed, Wahidah H. Al-Qahtani, Mohsin Kazi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-12-01
Series:Plants
Subjects:
edible wild fruits
food security
southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
nutraceutical
quantitative ethnobotanical indices (QEI)
relative frequency citation (RFC)
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/1/39

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