Table 4 Number and percentage of wild edible plants and of use report (UR) among food-categories at the survey sites.
Number of species (Nsp) | ||||||||||||
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Food category | N* | Q | J | T | S | Total | ||||||
Vegetables | 44 | 65% | 44 | 69% | 32 | 62% | 21 | 58% | 30 | 64% | 53 | 69.74% |
Herbal tea | 21 | 31% | 13 | 20% | 10 | 19% | 12 | 33% | 12 | 26% | 27 | 35.53% |
Seasoning | 15 | 22% | 11 | 17% | 10 | 19% | 9 | 25% | 13 | 28% | 20 | 26.32% |
Fruits | 13 | 19% | 12 | 19% | 10 | 19% | 6 | 17% | 7 | 15% | 16 | 21.05% |
Food decoration | 4 | 6% | 2 | 3% | 5 | 10% | 2 | 6% | 1 | 2% | 8 | 10.53% |
Food preservation | 2 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 2.63% |
Total | 68 | 146% | 64 | 128% | 52 | 129% | 36 | 139% | 47 | 134% | 76 | 165.79% |
Number of use reports (NUR) | ||||||||||||
Food category | N | Q | J | T | S | Total | ||||||
Vegetables | 561 | 53% | 501 | 65% | 171 | 66% | 148 | 54% | 165 | 48% | 1588 | 55.4% |
Herbal tea | 249 | 23% | 78 | 10% | 21 | 8% | 65 | 24% | 53 | 15% | 476 | 16.6% |
Seasoning | 125 | 12% | 72 | 9% | 31 | 12% | 39 | 14% | 83 | 24% | 394 | 13.7% |
Fruits | 114 | 11% | 117 | 15% | 27 | 10% | 19 | 7% | 40 | 12% | 321 | 11.2% |
Food decoration | 9 | 1% | 2 | 0% | 8 | 3% | 4 | 1% | 4 | 1% | 81 | 2.8% |
Food preservation | 9 | 1% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 9 | 0.3% |
Total | 1067 | 100% | 770 | 100% | 258 | 100% | 275 | 100% | 345 | 100% | 2869 | 100% |