Walking around the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy): An Ethnobotanical Investigation.

ABSTRACT: The Trentino-South Tyrol region is a special statute region of northeastern Italy. This territory is of particular interest for its morphology, flourishing vegetation, and history, having been a meeting area among different civilizations. Hence, Trentino is characterized by an ethnic plurality and a rich ethnobotanical knowledge, even if the available information is fragmentary, widely dispersed, and often guarded in oral popular culture. To fill this gap, in the present work 200 subjects were interviewed using an ethnobotanical survey. The resulting 817 citations referred to 64 native species, used either for human or animal health or for domestic purposes. As a second step, for each plant exploited for medicinal purposes, local importance was evaluated by calculating their relative frequ

SUBMITTER: Cavalloro V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9460053 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature