Past and present of allspice (Pimenta dioica) in Mexico and Guatemala

European expansion in the 16th Century produced a worldwide circulation of plants.Spanish colonialism displaced native plant resources while also promoting a mixture of Old and New World food cultures. That is the case of allspice, the fruit of the Pimenta dioica (L.) Merrill, a native tree to tropi...

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Main Authors: Paulina Machuca, María Teresa Pulido-Salas, Felipe Trabanino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2020-12-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/6261