Use of plants in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Survey trip in October 2008
2009
Tanesaka, E.(Kinki Univ., Nara (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture) | Ohno, T. | Yamaguchi, H.
Plants traditionally and popularly used for food or construction materials in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea were observed in October 2008. Sixteen species, including tubers, fruits, legumes, vegetables for food, a few luxury plants, and some tree species for construction materials, were listed and documented. We observed a process very like the traditional cooking method of taro, Colocasia esculenta, with cooks using a steel pot instead of digging a hole in the ground to make a 'ground oven'. Sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, was another important resource of carbohydrates, which are extracted from the stem. The leaflets of this plant are used for thatch, and the petioles are used for walls. For the construction of single-outrigger canoes, several kinds of trees were used, such as Camprosperma brevipetiola for the body and Pterocarpus or Vitex species for the outriggers.
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