Wild Edible Plants Used by the Polish Community

# The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract We studied the cultural significance of wild edible plants for Eastern European migrants who settled in rural sub-tropical areas of South America. In 50 interviews with Polish migrants and their descendants in northernMisiones, Argentina, we recorded the use of 41 botanical species and two mushroom taxa. Different cultural significance indices were applied and sociodemographic factors such as gender, age and origin were addressed. Out of the ten most salient species, nine were fruits (Eugenia uniflora, Eugenia involucrata, Rollinia salicifolia, Campomanesia xanthocarpa, Syagrus romanzoffiana