Wild edible plants are an essential component of people's diets in the Mediterranean basin.
In Italy, ethnobotanical surveys have received increasing attention in the past two centuries …

Wild food gathering activities (ie, foraging practices) played an important role in securing
food in the past. Nowadays, these resources and the knowledge around their use are …

This comprehensive ethnobotanical study carried out in Mersin province, which is located in
the southern part of Anatolia, east of the Mediterranean Sea, compiles details on plants used …

Profound socioeconomic changes affected mountains of Central Italy during the last century
and many traditional agro-pastoral activities were abandoned. A few ethnobotanical studies …

Over the centuries, wild plants have constituted the main food ingredients and traditional
medicine in rural communities. In the last decades, thousands of ethnobotanical studies …

Edible flowers are becoming an essential component of people's nutrition in the
Mediterranean basin. In the last decades, many researchers also have focused their …

A great deal of ethnobotanical knowledge, passed down from generation to generation by
oral tradition, is still preserved in the Mediterranean basin. Over the years, efforts have been …

With approximately 2800 species, the Campania region has the richest vascular flora in
southern Italy and the highest number of medicinal species reported in the Italian folk …

Caper (Capparis spinosa) is a plant of significant socio-economic importance in the
Mediterranean region which is traditionally used to fight various metabolic diseases. It has …

Flavoring wine with Artemisia species, together with other aromatic herbs and/or fruits, is a
practice that has evolved in different parts of Bulgaria. The aromatized wine-based …