- An Herb Society of America Fact Sheet
Culture Some thymes may be grown from seed, if morphological character is not important, but a beginner probably should start out with plants bought from a nursery, if only to see the great choices of forms and varieties available, and to use the nose to.
- Cultivation versus wild harvesting of medicinal plants
The extinction of the ancient plant Silphion in about 250BC probably caused by its uncontrolled harvest provides a warning of the need for sustainable management of plants while it is still possible (see Fact sheet 3: Use of plants for medicine around.
- Conservation of the Wild Relatives of Native European Crops
The Group of Experts on Biodiversity and Biosubsistence was created in 1990 and one of its outputs was A Catalogue of the Wild Relatives of Cultivated Plants Native to Europe (Heywood and Zohary 1995) that provides an initial survey of the wild genetic.
- Thymus and Origanum
Many species of Thymus and Origanum are commonly used together in medicinal preparations, cooking and essential oils, which is why both genera are included together here... It has been used medicinally, as food, as spices, as dyeing agents, to name a few.
- Towards sustainable herbal medicine
Plant populations need to endure despite harvesting, and markets need to be managed so that that demand does not cause the local extinction of species or further impoverishment of harvesters who are often already economically marginalised within.
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