Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. Volume 7: Flowers. 2013.illus. VIII, 1102 po. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Covers plants with edible flowers whose floral parts including thestalk and flower nectar are eaten as conventional or functional foodand may provide a source of food colorant, additive or neutraceuticals.This volume covers plant species with edible flowers from familiesAcanthaceae to Fabaceae in a tabular form and seventy-five such speciesfrom the families Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae,Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae,Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae,Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvulaceae, Costaceae, Doryanthaceaeand Fabaceae in detail. The edible species dealt with in this work include wild and underutilized crops and also common and widely grownornamentals. To help in identification of the plant and edible partsabout 200 coloured illustrations are included.