إسهام في دراسة الأنواع النباتية الغذائية البرية في الساحل السوري

Abstract EN

This Sudy was carried in the Syrian Coastal Zone (in some villages of Lattakia and Tartous in 2014).

It aimed to identify the wild edible plants, and gathering information about their uses it to the future generation, especially that this kind of knowledge has been deterioration noticeably in Syria.

44 edible plant species, belonging to 23 families, were recorded and divided into four principal categories: food flavoring, that took 9.1% of the total recorded species; fruit and seed species (29.54%); species whose flowers or nectars can be consumed (18.2%); vegetable species (56.8%).

Asteraceae and Rosaceae were the most represented families, with 6 species each, the family Lamiaceae came next with 4 species; whereas 21.7% of the total families were represented by two species, and 60% of them were represented by only one.

The flowing row-eaten vegetable species: portulaca (Portulaca oleracea), Wild Chicory (Chicoriumitybus), Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Eryngo (Eryngium cryticum), Garden Rocket (Eruca vesicaria), and water cress (Nasturtim officinale) were the most consumed, when Rubus fruticans was the most consumed fruit species.

The study showed that women were more familiar with wild edible plants than others.

It recommended: to carry on collecting information about this of plants at the Syrian coastal zone scale, as the uses of this plants vary according to the different local communities; to document this knowledge before it vanishes, and to find new ways to pass it to the future generation especially that it depends enormously on the memory and oral teaching.