How long does it take to read Edible Medicinal and Non-medicinal Plants?
Lim Tong Kwee
Edible Medicinal and Non-medicinal Plants by Lim Tong Kwee takes about 15 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 35 minutes
A long haul
First published 2012. 850 pages, about 233,750 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book continues as volume 9 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers such plants with edible modified storage subterranean stems (corms, rhizomes, stem tubers) and unmodified subterranean stem stolons, above ground swollen stems and hypocotyls, storage roots (tap root, lateral roots, root tubers), and bulbs, that are eaten as conventional or functional food as vegetables and spices, as herbal teas, and may provide a source of food additive or nutraceuticals. This volume covers plant species with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae, Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail. The edible species dealt with in this work include wild and underutilized crops and also common and widely grown ornamentals. To help in identification of the plant and edible parts about 120 colored illustrations are included. As in the preceding eight volumes, topics covered include: taxonomy (botanical name and synonyms); common English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agro-ecological requirements; edible plant parts and uses; plant botany; nutritive, medicinal and pharmacological properties with up-to-date research findings; traditional medicinal uses; other non-edible uses; and selected/cited references for further reading. This volume has separate indices for scientific and common names; and separate scientific and medical glossaries.
Subjects: Vegetable Materia medica, Fruit, Identification, Medicinal plants, Composition, Edible Plants
