Topic:Plantlore
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[edit] Welcome to the Plantlore department of the School of Plant Sciences!
Lore is defined as the knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote. The lore of plants has long been an integral part of our lives. It has influenced our cuisine, medicine, and religion.
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Processing of raw plant materials into a myriad of forms has become the norm, a practice which has become so extensive, a cultural amnesia about the plant-based origin of many products has developed. For instance, how readily can you connect a pill to a plant? Frequently, pharmaceuticals derive one or more active ingredients from plant sources. For example, the advent of aspirin was inspired, in part, by the salicin present in willow bark.
[edit] Plantlore vs. ethnobotany
If you are a new visitor to this department and would like to create resources, please check the Ethnobotany department first to make sure that we are not creating duplicate resources. As a rule, if your resource is about the topic of general plantlore or folk remedies and not a specific, indigenous culture, it belongs in the plantlore department. If, however, your resource is about how a specific native culture uses a particular plant or their attitude toward plants in general, that resource belongs in ethnobotany. Also, there's no harm in linking your resource to both departments, as this increases the odds that it will be useful to our users!
[edit] Department news
- October 4th, 2006 - Department founded.
[edit] Task list
- We are currently looking for people to "adopt" the Edible plant identification and start adding content to make this a viable resource for our visitors! Please head on over there if you're interested.
[edit] Learning projects
[edit] Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this department, you can list your name here (this can help small departments grow and the participants communicate better; for large departments a list of active participants is not needed).
