Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Mongabay
Jun 4, 2019, 12:32 pm208 pts
“I once asked a Matapí elder if he could spare an hour or two to tell me about what palms he knew, and how he used them,” says Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, a plant identification specialist formerly at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K. This particular survey was part of a months-long trip through the…

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