WILD EDIBLE PLANTS IN KARAMAN (SOUTHERN TURKEY)

Abstract

An ethnobotanical study was carried out in Karaman province (South of Central Anatolia) and wild edible species were identified used as food, spice, pickle, appetizer, mastic, tea and coffee. Identified 61 wild edible plant species belonging to 20 families of the 57 flowering plants, 2 fungi and 1 lichen species were collected from different localities in Karaman. The highest species number is found for Labiatae family (19 species) is followed by Compositae (8 species), Rosaceae (5 species), Caryophyllaceae, Polygonaceae (3 species) and Anacardiaceae, Malvaceae, Chenopodiaceae and Urticaceae (2 species). The rest of the 11 families represented by only 1 species.