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Book American Ginseng  Panax Quinquefolius L

Download or read book American Ginseng Panax Quinquefolius L written by Eric P. Burkhart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical and Current Distribution and Abundance of American Ginseng  Panax Quinquefolius L   Araliaceae

Download or read book Historical and Current Distribution and Abundance of American Ginseng Panax Quinquefolius L Araliaceae written by Kathryn McQuilkin Flinn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ginseng Dreams

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  • Author : Kristin Johannsen
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2006-03-10
  • ISBN : 0813171393
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Ginseng Dreams written by Kristin Johannsen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Ginseng has a strange and perilous history. It has one of the longest germination periods of any known species, and only two environments in the world have offered the ideal growing conditions for wild ginseng. The first was the forests of northern China, which disappeared over a millennium ago, and the sole remaining habitat is the Appalachian Mountain region of eastern North America, an area now threatened by logging and mining. Chinese legend says that ginseng is the child of lightning. The two elemental forces of water and fire fight in an eternal struggle, pouring down rain and snow and blasting the earth with lightning. If that lightning happens to strike a spring of water, the water disappears and in its place grows a ginseng plant—the fusion of yin and yang, water and fire, darkness and light, and the life force that moves the universe. American ginseng has become perhaps the most treasured of all herbal medicines, promising good health and longevity to those who consume it. Fortunes have been made and lost on the plant, which was America’s first export to China—before our nation even existed. The strange, twisted, man-shaped root today commands as much as two thousand dollars a pound in the hot, noisy ginseng markets of Hong Kong, and a wealthy collector might pay as much as $10,000 for a single, perfect specimen. Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant unfolds ginseng’s past and its future through the stories of seven people whose lives have become inextricably bound to it: a huckster, a field researcher, a farmer, a ginseng “missionary,” a criminal investigator, a broker, and a cancer researcher. Each of these individuals brings a different perspective to the elusive root—and each is consumed by a different dream. Kristin Johannsen threads her way though remote woodlands in the Appalachians to observe the fragile plants slowly putting out leaves as part of a three-year growing cycle, during which time the ginseng is vulnerable to both poachers and growing suburban sprawl. She contrasts this with the huge commercial growing fields of Marathon County, Wisconsin, where among potato fields and paper mills, ninety percent of the country’s ginseng is produced. Johannsen explores the brisk black market trade in the panacean root and the efforts to save the wild species and its native habitat, and she ends her story in the laboratory, where researchers are investigating ginseng’s anti-cancer properties. An absorbing journey into the many worlds of this mysterious and potent plant, Ginseng Dreams tells the extraordinary story of America’s little-known natural treasure and the spell it casts on those who seek it.

Book American Ginseng  Panax Quinquefolius

Download or read book American Ginseng Panax Quinquefolius written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Ginseng Root

Download or read book American Ginseng Root written by Roy Upton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Ginseng

Download or read book American Ginseng written by W. Scott Persons and published by Exposition Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via het verzamelen van eigen ervaringen, kennis van andere telers en informatie uit publikaties kwam de auteur tot het schrijven van deze teeltleidraad, waarin ook de geschiedenis van de ginsenghandel en de medicinale eigenschappen zijn opgenomen

Book Population Dynamics  Life History  and Management Recommendations for American Ginseng  Panax Quinquefolius L   in Wisconsin

Download or read book Population Dynamics Life History and Management Recommendations for American Ginseng Panax Quinquefolius L in Wisconsin written by Susan Gail Moths Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cultivation of American Ginseng in Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Cultivation of American Ginseng in Pennsylvania written by George C. Butz and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Animal Dispersal of American Ginseng  panax Quinquefolius L

Download or read book Animal Dispersal of American Ginseng panax Quinquefolius L written by Amy M. Hruska and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Ginseng

Download or read book American Ginseng written by Steven Foster and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Small Population Size  Breeding System  and Gene Flow on Fruit and Seed Production in American Ginseng  Panax Quinquefolius L   Araliaceae

Download or read book The Effects of Small Population Size Breeding System and Gene Flow on Fruit and Seed Production in American Ginseng Panax Quinquefolius L Araliaceae written by Erin Elizabeth Hackney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: