This book presents the first authoritative and comprehensive account of various characteristics of morphological, taxonomical, horticultural and economic 26 wild growing fruits of the mid - hill region of the Himalayas. This treatise is not a mere compilation of the information from earlier books, but is the outcome of a study carried out by the authors on these wild fruits in order to evaluate from economic and commercial standpoints. To make the work more useful, the authors have also consulted other sources including ancient Sanskrit texts on Ayurveda for compiling all the available information on the medicinal properties and other uses of these plants. The book therefore contains detailed information on morphology, flowering and fruiting seasons, cropping, nutritive value, fruit quality, medicinal properties, utilization, scope etc. in respect of each fruit. It is for the first time that such detailed information about these fruits has been placed under a single cover.

The fruits of many of these wild plants are of marketable quality. The villagers gather them from forests for sale in small hill towns oe along the highways. Most plants are multipurpose types as they have other uses too besides yielding edible fruits qualities. I am confident that if well organized efforts are made to promote them, a few few of these might turn out to be successful new commercial fruit crops like kiwifruit. It is really unfortunate that very few people are aware of the existence of so useful and valuable plants even in their homeland, India.

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