EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Ethnobotany” has been defined by Richard Ford (1994) as “the study of direct interrelations between humans and plants”* and the attempt to understand the meaning of plants within a culture.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ethnobotany is at once a vital key to preserving the diversity of plants as well as to understanding and interpreting the knowledge by which we are, and will be, enabled to deal with them effectively and sustainably throughout the world. Thus ethnobotany is the science of survival”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethnobotany accounts for the study of relationship between people and plants for their use as medicines, food, shelter, clothing, fuel, fodder and other household purposes [1]. It deals with the interaction of indigenous plants and the local inhabitants of the area.