Boris M. Sharga
  

Biological Resources of Medicinal Herbs in Subcarpathia ( dry weight, kg of used plant parts)   

Plant	Plant part	Bioresource	Exploiting resource
Achillea millefolium L	grass	7033	7033
Alnus glutinosa L.	fruits	590335	590335
Betula verrucosa Ehrh.	Buds	690125	690125	690125
Bidens tripartita L.	grass	6999	349
Capsella bursa-pastoris L.	grass	14761	11809
Cetraria islandica Ach.	Fruits	32240	6448
Convallaria majalis L.	grass	1318	330
Crataegus oxiacantha L.	Crataegus oxiacantha L.	flowers	4000	4000
Crataegus oxiacantha L.	fruits	8871	8871
Dryopteris filix-mas L.	roots	9273	2470
Equisetum arvense L.	grass	4452	3856
Fragaria vesca L.	leaves	3837		3837	1723
Hypericum perforatum L.	grass	57952	16134
Junipers communis L.	fruits	12028	12028
Matricaria recutita L.	flowers	803	722
Menyanthesv trifoliata L.	grass	1116	451
Ononis arvensis L.
Ononis arvensis L.	roots	1545	386
Origanum vulgare L.	grass	135	94
Plantago major L.	grass	1391	706
Polygonum hidropiper L.	grass	8690	4345
Potentilla erecta L.	roots	24618	24618	20217
Rosa sp. div.	Fruits	4648	4648
Rubus idaeus L.	fruits	69608	69874
Sambucus nigra L.	flowers	2677	2677
Sorbus aucuparia L.	fruits	1482	1408
Taraxacum officinale Webb. ex WiggTaraxacum officinale Webb. ex Wigg	roots	84306	21173
Thymus serpyllum L.	grass	32256	25399
Tussilago farfara L.	leaves	24698	20061
Vaccinium myrtillus L.	fruits	127711	127711
Vaccinium myrtillus L.	shoots	122123 ">shoots	122123	507100
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.	leaves	19286	9641
Veratrum album L.	roots	25243	6310
Viola tricolor L.	grass	2417	1493

The data presented above are provided by Drs V. Komendar,V. Sabadosh, N. Kivezsdi, V. Kricsfalusy, A. Mihaly, G. Budnikov, V. Shushman, L. Germansky, A. Mikhaylov (Uzhgorod University, !998)

Cultivation of mv (Uzhgorod University, !998)

Cultivation of medicinal mushrooms is not developed well. However in most of the Ukrainian regions small farmers or firms are cultivating Pleurotus species. There is a firm producing mycelium inoculated substrat ready for these mushrooms cultivation in Lisichansk. Middle sized production of mushrooms are in Melitopol and Dnipropetrovsk. An international companies started large production of Agaricus mushrooms near Kiev and in Ruthenia near Vinogradovo.

Production of mushrooms mycelia organized in Nikitsky botanic garden, Kiev, Charkiv, Lvov, Uzhgorod. Medicional properties of Pleurotus as anticholesterinogenic, blood pressure regulating mushrooms are ignored. However, technology of proteinaceous food premix is developed in Istitute of Botany in Kiev.

Annual productions of Pleurotus mushrooms in Ukraine is evaluated in few dosens of tons. Most prospective regions for its development are Central and eastern Ukraine, were we have large density of population and a lot of material for growing substrate (straw, corn cane etc.).

Western part also prospective because of population density. Here 'wood digesting' species may be cultivated for produsing of medicinal drugs. Especially in Galichina and Subcarpathia where we have clean, nonna and Subcarpathia where we have clean, non-poluted forests. Intensive technology may be used elsewhere. Climate and resources of potential growing substrates are allowing to cultivate next species ( most effectivelly in western part of the country): Auricularia polytricha,Agrocibe aegerita, Flamullina velutipes,Ganoderma lucidum,Grifola frondosa, Hericium erinaceus, Hypholoma capnoides, H. Sublateritium, Hypsizygus tessulatus, H. ulmarius, Lentinula edodes,mPholiota nameko, Pleurotus species,Polyporus umbellatus, Psylocybe cyanescens. However, only Aagaricus species and Pleurotus species and in few cases Lentinula edodes (no mre then few tons annually) are cultivated for local market.