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Famine Foods
Compiled by Robert Freedman

GUTTIFERAE or Hypericaceae

Garcinia xanthochymus, Hook. f. ex T. Anders. India (area unspecified): fruit eaten. Ref. WATT.

Hypericum ascyron, L. Manchuria (eastern forests): leaves used a tea substitute. Reported toxic. Ref. BARANOV.


Last update Thursday, February 26, 1998 by aw