Agaves of Continental North AmericaUniversity of Arizona Press, 01/02/2004 - 670 páginas New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow. |
Índice
Tables | 11 |
Taxonomic History and Morphology | 25 |
Geographic Guide to Species and the Exsiccatae | 49 |
Subgenus Littaea | 59 |
Key to Groups of Subgenus Littaea 61 Sectional List of Species | 62 |
Group Amolae | 63 |
Group Choritepalae | 89 |
Group Filiferae | 101 |
Group Americanae | 270 |
Group Campaniflorae | 309 |
Group Crenatae | 323 |
Group Deserticolae | 354 |
Group Ditepalae | 416 |
Group Hiemiflorae | 465 |
Group Marmoratae | 507 |
Group Parryanae | 520 |
Group Marginatae | 124 |
Group Parviflorae | 195 |
Group Polycephalae | 216 |
Group Striatae | 235 |
Group Urceolatae | 251 |
Subgenus Agave | 265 |
Key to Groups of Subgenus Agave | 267 |
Group Rigidae | 551 |
Group Salmianae | 594 |
Group Sisalanae | 619 |
Group Umbelliflorae | 635 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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