Edible Wild Plants of West Bengal, India : A Pictorial Guide

Large number of wild plants are being consumed by the local peoples of India. Most of these plants are collected by the elder people from the wild sources, who spend a considerable part of their day in the field collecting plants from the local habitat. Majority of the plant parts are being sold in different markets. These plants have social importance to the daily livelihood pattern of the people for their ever growing marketing demand as well as economic benefit. On the other hand, over exploitation of these plants may cause threat in the wild. Many of these plants are less common in this area i.e. infrequent and belonging to Least Concern category in the IUCN list of Threatened Species (Version 2011.1) An effort has been made to brought out this publication entitled Edible wild plants of West Bengal, India -A Pictorial Guide to help in identification the edible wild plants easily with the illustration of coloured picture along with taxonomical description. In this present book 105 plant species have been illustrated with their high resolute colour photographs to identify them in easy way. Hope this publication would be of great help to scientist, researchers, officials, academicians and students