Biology:Lists of useful plants

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The maguey was cultivated by the Aztecs for its numerous uses including construction, fibre, hedging and production of the sacred drink pulque.

This article contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need. Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead collects the lists and categories for the different ways in which a plant can be used; some plants may fall into several of the categories or lists below, and some lists overlap (for example, the term "crop" covers both edible and non-edible agricultural products).

Edible plants

• Category:Edible plants
  • Category:Cereals
  • List of edible flowers
  • List of culinary herbs and spices

Fruits and vegetables

• Category:Fruit

Forestry

• • Category:Shrubs
  • Category:Trees

Medicine, drugs, psychoactives

1.Category:Medicinal plants 3.List of Plants Used for Smoking

Other economic purposes

• List of beneficial weeds

External links

• Plants For A Future
• Permaculture Information Web
• Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)
• Handbook of Energy Crops
• Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains
• Lost Crops of the Incas
• Bibliography on underutilized roots and tubers crops
• Australian New Crops Web Site
• Plant Resources of South East Asia (PROSEA)
• Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
• UN Centre for the Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops' Development in Asia and the Pacific (UNCAPSA)
• Traditional African Vegetables
• ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization)