Achira, the edible Canna, its cultivation and use in the peruvian andes
Achira, the edible Canna, its cultivation and use in the peruvian andes
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Achira，食用美人蕉，其在秘鲁安第斯山脉的种植和使用
作者：
D. Gade
在安第斯地区具有悠久历史的植物是aehira，CGnna edulis Ker.，仍生长在美洲热带地区，其根茎可食用。在澳大利亚、非洲和亚洲的部分地区，这种植物也被用作牲畜饲料和商业淀粉来源，但只有在西半球才发现它与“民间社会”的农业密切相关（6）。从安的列斯群岛到阿根廷，食用美人蕉的种植已经不再普遍了，如果曾经是的话，今天似乎在秘鲁的阿普里米亚克河上游山谷有最密集的种植中心。甘纳属植物约50种，大多数具有肉质根茎，有几种被用作药用植物。食物来源：（七）、除了驯化的美人蕉外，眠是
iaesticates with a long history in the Andean area is aehira, CGnna edulis Ker., still grow-l in parts of tropical America for its edible rhizomes. This plant has also been used as a stock feed and commiiercial source of starch in parts of Australia, Africa, and Asia, but only in the Western Hemiiisphere has it been found intimiiately associated with the agriculture of "folk societies" (6). Known fronm the Antilles to Argentina, the growing, of edible cannia is no longer generally comimonindeed if it ever was-and today appears to have its most intensive center of cultivation in the upper Apurimiiac River valley of Peru. Most of the fifty or so species in the genus Ganna have fleshy rhizomnes, an(l several have beeii used as a. source of food.: (7). Besides the domesticated Canna edulis Ker., mian has