Additional notes to the checklist of Cuban cultivated plants (2)

Abstract

Checklists are considered as useful tools for exploration work in plant genetic resources programmes. New information is presented for the checklist of Cuban cultivated plants (ESQUIVEL et al. 1989). 107 species were newly included. For a few other species additional data are given. This information is the result of two further collecting missions in Cuba. Fodder crops predominate, as a result of the cooperation with a specialist in this field. A computerized database was developed allowing not only to maintain the information but also to standardize nomenclatural abbreviations, e.g. authority and protologue.

Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices: The Case of Tifey Among Haitian Immigrants in Cuba

“…3 Haitian informant with Artemisia absinthium in his homegarden coins) at its base to ensure that its medicinal properties will be effective. Although Hammer et al (1990) citing Fuentes (1988) reported that A. absinthium is frequently grown in Cuban homegardens as a condiment and medicinal plant, it is currently very difficult to find, at least in the province of Camagüey. Also, the plant is either absent or cited only causally in the most important treatises on Cuban folk medicine (Roig 1974;Seoane 1984) and in the ethnomedical studies in the Province of Camagüey (Beyra et al 2004).…”