Inventory for Ethno-vegetable Knowledge of the Tribals from Satpura Hill Area- Melghat, Dist. Amravati (India)

Abstract

The present inventory carried out Melghat region. While collecting Ethnobotanical information regarding medicinal plants, the valuable information about the vegetable use of plants noted and presented it in this paper. A total of 189 ethnomedicinally important plants Melghat were surveyed using a schedule to assess the knowledge, availability and consumption pattern of wild leafy vegetables. The study revealed 29 ethnovegetable plants of regular use in the food preparation of Korku. The diversity of wild leafy vegetables being used by the local inhabitants is 29 species belonging to 19 genera and 17 families. The majority of ethnovegetable plants were herbs the majority of the ethnovegetable plants used by Korku tribe in the study area were collected raw from the forest as wild and not cultivated ones. The study indicated that the knowledge is to be transferred properly by old people to the younger generation and should be trained in collection and processing of such wild ethnovegetables. The record of 29 ethnovegetable plant species shows that Korku of Melghat is a distinct tribe. Another feature of Korku usage of plants as drugs is that the use of monocots is frequent in their system as compared to other tribes. Here, out of 29 plant species, 08 are from the monocot.