An Ethnobotanical Survey of the Beypazari, Ayas, and Güdül District Towns of Ankara Province (Turkey)

Dietary, therapeutical, and other ethnobotanical uses of the wild plants grown in the Beypazarı, Ayaş, and Güdül district towns of Ankara were investigated. Information was collected by oral interviews, with 400 individuals participating in 25 selected sites. The demographic characteristics of the i...

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Published in:Economic botany 2004-12, Vol.58 (4), p.705-720
Main Authors: Isil, Simsek, Fulya, Aytekin, Erdem, Yesilada, Şinasi, Yildirimli
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ankara
Ayas
Beypazari
Boiling
computer software
crosslinking
Diet
educational status
Ethnobotany
ETHNOBOTANY IN TURKEY
Flowers
Food
Food plants
Foodstuffs
Fruits
Güdül
Herbs
interviews
Leaves
Medicinal plants
Plant roots
Plant species
Plants
sociodemographic characteristics
Statistical analysis
surveys
Tea
Towns
traditional medicine
Turkey
Wild plants
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Summary:Dietary, therapeutical, and other ethnobotanical uses of the wild plants grown in the Beypazarı, Ayaş, and Güdül district towns of Ankara were investigated. Information was collected by oral interviews, with 400 individuals participating in 25 selected sites. The demographic characteristics of the informants were cross-linked with the recorded plant data for purposes of statistical analysis by SPSS software. The results indicated that 82% of the informants recognized the use of wild plants for food and home remedies. Both the breadth and scope of knowledge on the use of wild plants increased significantly with the advancing age of the informants, but there was no significant correlation between the knowledge of the informants and their educational status. Altogether, the authors recorded 192 uses for wild plants in the surveyed area; these emanating from 85 plant species belonging to 31 plant families. Among the most popular uses for wild plants were for medicines (115 citations) or food (70 citations). Only 7 plants fell in the miscellaneous category.
ISSN:0013-0001
1874-9364
DOI:10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058[0705:AESOTB]2.0.CO;2