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Mangement, cultivation, and domestication of weaving plants: Heteropsis and Astrocaryum in the Ecuadorian rain forest
Type: Text
Year: 2004, 2004
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: The California Geographical Society
Description: The author examines the management and cultivation of two plants in the Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve, northwestern Ecuador. The plants in this study, a hemiepiphyte, Heteropsis ecuadorensis, (Araceae), commonly called piqigua and a plam, Astrocaryum standleyamon (Arecaceae), commonly called mocora, provide weaving fiber to make baskets, mats, and smaller woven articles. Although most people… more
Full Text: Notice: This article is a copy of a post print manuscript the author Maria Fadiman of Florida Atlantic University's Department of Geosciences wrote while a faculty member at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida and published in The California …