Lists of useful plants

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).

The maguey was cultivated by the Aztecs for its numerous uses including construction, fibre, hedging and production of the sacred drink pulque.[1]

Edible plants

Fruits and vegetables
  • Category:Fruit
    • Category:Edible nuts and seeds
  • Category:Vegetables
    • Category:Inflorescence vegetables
    • Category:Leaf vegetables
    • Category:Root vegetables
    • Category:Edible seaweeds
    • Category:Stem vegetables

Forestry
  • Category:Wood
    • Category:Shrubs
    • Category:Trees

Medicine, drugs, psychoactives

1.Category:Medicinal plants 2.Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi 3.List of Plants Used for Smoking

Other economic purposes

References
  1. Christopher Cumo, ed. (2013), Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants, ABC-CLIO, p. 5, ISBN 9781598847758
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