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Table 4 Specialization in the collecting of wild edible plants.

From: Archival data on wild food plants used in Poland in 1948

 

%

 
 

Everyone

Women and children

Only children

Only women

Only adults

Men and children

NUMBER OF ANSWERS

Vaccinium myrtillus

55

36

9

   

22

Rubus idaeus

54

31

15

   

13

Fragaria vesca

48

39

13

   

23

Armoracia rusticana

45

18

9

18

9

 

11

Vaccinium vitis-idaea

38

50

13

   

16

Rubus subgenus Rubus

30

35

35

   

23

Corylus avellana

29

7

36

  

29

14

Rumex spp.

23

45

30

3

  

40

Prunus spinosa

20

10

60

10

  

10

Chenopodium album

18

36

9

36

  

22

Urtica spp.

18

23

 

45

14

 

22

Oxalis spp.

8

 

92

   

13

MEAN

31

31

24

10

2

2

229