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Buchu, a new Cultivated Crop in South Africa

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The farmers of South Africa hare provided the first steps in the domestication of a medicinal herb endemic to the Cape Province.

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  1. Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

    Howard Scott Gentry

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Gentry, H.S. Buchu, a new Cultivated Crop in South Africa. Econ Bot 15, 326–331 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02907855

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