What are some areas in ethnobotany where we have a limited amount of information, and we are trying to fill in the blanks?

https://ethnoagriculture.com/ethnobotanical-study-of-mongolian-wild-vegetables-nutritional-medicinal-and-cultural-significance/

Hi everyone, I just made a new post. I used the feedback I got last time I posted on here and looking to hear back on more ways to improve!

Hi, looking for ethnobotany books specific to the mid-atlantoc region in the US!

https://ethnoagriculture.com/unveiling-the-healing-power-of-cryptolepis-sanguinolenta-traditional-wisdom-meets-modern-science/

Hello fellow botanists,

As part of my PhD research, I have the opportunity to explore lesser-known psychoactive plants, focusing on isolating secondary metabolites and investigating their mechanisms of action. I am working on a long list of plants with mainly only ethnobotanical documentation, and I'd love to hear your suggestions!

Are there any particular plants you're curious about in terms of the compounds they contain?

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Do boobie cacti or unicorn cacti contain any active alkaloids? Always around, ExitDry

I am wondering what the charge would be and how much jail time someone would get if arrested for having a single, very small coca tree in Florida, just curious. If sold, would the charges escalate? Do they weigh the plant,m to determine anything, or is it just a straight forward law?

I want to make sense of the forest. I mean if I knew what I’m looking at would be far more interesting that just calling them trees. Thanks

Hi all, I am notably not an ethnobotanist nor do I know much about the field beyond the very basic “plants can be used for food and medicine and there is a strong indigenous subtext” research that a quick google search can give. I am however writing a story where my main character is an ethnobotanist (fits nicely within the plot and character origins) and said character is being asked to do some questionably ethical testing on other characters while performing their own research - so! What would the most important and most interesting things be that I should know about and be able to include? The story takes place in a fictional universe so there aren’t really too many laws to abide by. Thanks!

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What's your favorite ethnobotany book ,thesis, or dissertation. I'm especially interested in the relationship between indigenous people and plants in the Western United States. Thanks in advance!

[Import/export of plants is difficult here, as Switzerland is not part of the EU]

I know it is unlikely to find someone here as it is such a small country, but I thought it's worth a try 🤞

Looking for books on Native American herbal medicine. Thank you!

Hi, just reading through Rätchs Encyclopedia of psychoactive Plants, his source seems to be Balabanova. But there is no explanation how that can even be, coca doesn't grow in Africa and I don't think (m)any real scientists believe that Egypt had a trade rout with south America.

I just recently graduated from the University of Kent with my MSc in Ethnobotany... but I've heard that sadly the Department of Anthropology (that houses the program) is dissolving.

Here is a petition currently going around to hopefully safe the department and program, but it isn't looking good based on the responses my peers and I have been getting from the university. I loved the program and it is so sad to see that the only program in the English-speaking world is disappearing.

A friend of mine told me about oil pulling for dental health, and it got me thinking… Now that we’re discovering the absurd impact of the microbiome and dental health/oral microbiome on mental and physical health, how did early humans maintain a healthy oral microbiome? Of course, many factors affect dental health, but it would be very interesting to see how traditionally chewed plants like coca, tobacco, khat, etc… affect microbial composition and diversity in the oral microbiome. It seems like that would be a logical region for which the plant could evolve a symbiotic relationship if chewing is the primary method of consumption. Does this check out???

I’m an Oxford Biology student, and i’m trying to find a focus to write a botanical ethnography about a community or tradition somewhere.

Any ideas?