This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers plants with edible flowers whose floral parts including the stalk and flower nectar are eaten as conventional or functional food and may provide a source of food colorant, additive or neutraceuticals. This volume covers plant species with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Fabaceae in a tabular form and seventy five such species from the families Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae, Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvulaceae, Costaceae, Doryanthaceae and Fabaceae in detail. The edible species dealt with in this work include wild and underutilized crops and also common and widely grown ornamentals. To help in identification of the plant and edible parts about 200 coloured illustrations are included. As in the preceeding six volumes, topics covered include: taxonomy (botanical name and synonyms)
common English and vernacular names
origin and distribution
agro-ecological requirements
edible plant parts and uses
plant botany
nutritive, medicinal and pharmacological properties with up-to-date research findings
traditional medicinal uses
other non-edible uses
and selected/cited references for further reading. This volume has separate indices for scientific and common names
and separate scientific and medical glossaries.