Plants
Useful Plants on Ibiza
The plants and their uses can be found through the column on the left or here:
Uses of the plants in alphabetical order
Preface
There's a lot of uses of plants (as well of animals but these may be treated at another opportunity)–for food, wood, fibres (on Ibiza two grasses, both known as esparto in Spanish and espart in Ibicencan), food for domestic animals, to make cheese and a whole lot of other uses (for more details see here–or here in Ibicencan). And, of course, they are used as medicine.
This text is meant to present some ideas and informations, and maybe one or another reader feels motivated to learn more about plants and their uses, whether medicinal, as spices or for whatever purpose, what will besides give us satisfaction because we know where the plants that we use come from and what we ourselves can do without paying a penny.
In acknowledgement of the fact that many Ibicencans speak a language of their own and some know the plants only by their Ibicencan names, I consider it necessary to name those names together with the English ones, as far as common names exist and are to be found in literature or in the Ibicencans' knowledge. Besides I have added the names in other languages in case they could be found.
Please!
If you know more about traditional Ibicencan uses of some plants, please get in touch with me. Hopefully this website can get a medium of ethnobotanical exchange about cultural knowledge in order to save this from getting lost. Thanks for every help!
Gereon Janzing, ethnobotanist
Literature
Alomar i Canyelles, Guillem & Antonio García-Delgado Sancho: Reproducció de planta autòctona per a l'ús en repoblacions forestals, paisatgisme i jardineria. 2000.
d'Arellano, C. Guerau & Nèstor Torres: Nova aportació al coneixement de les plantes d'Eivissa i Formentera. Eivissa 1981.
Gildemeister, Heidi: Su jardín mediterráneo. Cómo crear un paraíso verde con poca agua. Guía de 1000 plantas que toleran la sequía. Palma de Mallorca 1995.
Janzing, Gereon: Mehrsprachiges Drogenwörterbuch. Deutsch – Englisch – Portugiesisch – Spanisch – Französisch – Italienisch – Russisch – Esperanto. Löhrbach 2004 (plurilingual dictionary of drugs).
Stevens, Neil: Aloe vera. Málaga 1997.
Tur Marí, Josep Antoni (dir.): Guía de la naturaleza de Eivissa y Formentera. 2 tomos. 1992.
