The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology

This work studied the historical evidence of the cultivation of “amba’y”, Cecropia pachystachya (Urticaceae) in domestic areas of Guarani communities and its replacement by the castor bean or “ricino”, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), whose cultivation is a current practice. Information obtained on...

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Main Authors: Héctor Alejandro Keller, Analía Pirondo, Pablo Stampella
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste 2018-06-01
Series:Bonplandia
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Online Access:https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/bon/article/view/2983