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The use of wild plants in tropical South America

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Such plants have provided the natives since pre-Columbian times not only with food but also with shelter, salt, basketry, ornament, cloth, gums, unguents, poisons, medicines and other useful products.

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Reprinted from Smithsonian Inst., Bur. Am. Eth., Handb. So. Am. Ind. Vol. 6: 465–486. 1950.

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Lévi-Strauss, C. The use of wild plants in tropical South America. Econ Bot 6, 252–270 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985068

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