Historical Ethnobotany: Interpreting the Old Records

Affiliations

¹ Estonian Literary Museum, Vanemuise 42, 51003 Tartu, Estonia.
² Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, Mestre, 30172 Venice, Italy.

Editorial

Raivo Kalle et al. Plants (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 Oct 25;12(21):3673.

doi: 10.3390/plants12213673.

¹ Estonian Literary Museum, Vanemuise 42, 51003 Tartu, Estonia.
² Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, Mestre, 30172 Venice, Italy.

Abstract

For centuries, knowledge about the use of plants has been collected, published, or simply left in archives [...].

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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