[Sca-cooks] for the botanists-

[johnna holloway]

You might want to check out the new Timber Press
title on plant gums and resins for more details.
Maybe a library can ILLoan it in for you. It's
expensive but at 600 plus pages it may well
have what you want.

Plant Resins:  Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology,
 and Ethnobotany by  Jean H. Langenheim
http://www.timberpress.com/books/index.cfm?do=details&ID=625

Johnnae llyn Lewis

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:

> Ok, after spending several hours on-line, and the best I can find is family
> Fabaceae- one of the divisions being Mimosoideae, and of those there is
> Acacia, and Mimosa pudica. So I'm trying to find out what was growing in
> Poitou in 1154- the
> travelogues etc refer both to acacia and to mimosa- and I'm trying to
> figure out which is which. I know acacia can be tapped for gum, and I know
> that mimosa shrinks from touch. But which lives in Poitou? Either? Both?
> when someone mentions one, which do they mean? AAAAAAAAGAHHHHH!
> 'Lainie