Useful Plants
The economic plant collection includes plants that are useful to humans, and is found in beds 41 to 90. Different beds are devoted to specific categories of plant products or usefulness. Refer to the tall labels to identify the category on display. These categories range from medicinal plants to poisonous plants and those that cause other injuries; from fiber plants used to make textiles and other products to plants that yield natural dyes; from aromatic plants used to make perfumes to oil plants and herbs; from wild and cultivated forms of vegetables to the many weeds that infest our crops and landscapes.
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