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== Use groups applied by PROSEA and PROTA ==

Such groups are used to organise the editing of the diverse volumes of [http://proseanet.org/prosea/e-prosea.php PROSEA] (Plant resources of South-East Asia) and of [http://www.prota4u.org/ PROTA] (Plant resources of tropical Africa), and help searching in the web versions. Precise uses are then expressed as free text in the content of the articles.

*'''Cereals and pulses'''
including some non-graminaceous cereals (‘pseudo-cereals’)
*'''Vegetables''' 
including legume seeds eaten as sprouted seeds
*'''Dyes and tannins'''
including mordants and inks
*'''Ornamentals'''
including hedge and wayside plants
*'''Forages'''
including feed for fish and insects such as silkworms
*'''Fruits''' 
including nuts
*'''Timbers'''
including bamboos used for construction
*'''Carbohydrates''' 
including bee plants; excluding cereals and pulses yielding starch
*'''Auxiliary plants'''
including shade and nurse trees, live supports, cover crops, mulches, green manures, fallow crops, live fences, windbreaks, erosion-controlling plants, land reclamation species, and water-cleaning agents
*'''Fuel plants'''
including plants used for the production of charcoal and as tinder
*'''Medicinal plants'''
including poisonous plants used as pesticide, fish poison or dart poison, and narcotic plants
*'''Spices and condiments'''
including vegetable salt, and flavour compounds added for conservation, such as hop in beer
*'''Essential oils and exudates'''
including aromatic woods, and plants producing camphor, latex, resin, balsam, gum, wax and aromatic resin
*'''Vegetable oils'''
*'''Stimulants'''
including plants used for beverages, chewing and smoking; excluding narcotic plants, but including legal drugs
*'''Fibres'''
(including rattans, and plants used for packing and thatching, as tying material, and for making paper, baskets, mats, wickerwork, wattle work and toothbrushes
*'''Miscellaneous uses'''
including plants used for social, religious and magic purposes, games and as toys and ornaments (e.g. beads)

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