Plantas medicinales, condimentarias, aromáticas y comestibles para el uso de la agricultura urbana en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C

Abstract

The internship project was carried out in the operational technical subdirectorate in the urban agriculture program of the Botanical Garden of Bogotá José Celestino Mutis, from there the idea of ​​identifying the plant species that we can find more in the agricultural processes of the city ​​and the uses they have, be they medicinal, aromatic, seasoning or edible, in order to make a catalog of the use of the species in order to generate a useful tool for urban farmers that allows them to recognize the diversity of uses that the species possess. For this, several phases were carried out: The preparation of a work plan, bibliographic review and database design, catalog design, photographic record and field phase (visits to urban gardens). Obtaining as a result a database with 109 species where 98% have medicinal use, 15.4% aromatic use, 19% use seasoning and 50% edible use. These species are part of a catalog where each species has the following information: scientific name, common name, family, habit of growth, uses of the species, plant requirements, nutritional value (Provided by nutrition students of the University Javeriana) and two photographs: one general and one detailed, whether leaf, flower or fruit.