Ethnobotanical survey of plants grown in agriculture in Transylvania, Romania

The traditional agricultural system encompasses archaic ancestral elements in the regions of Transylvania, a part of Romania. We overviewed 65 Hungarian and Romanian works published in the topic of agriculture of Transylvania since the 1960s. Among the listed 105 plants, the cultivated taxa have been mentioned as food plants and vegetables. People use the fruit-bearing plants mostly to make beverages and conserved products, while other ones as fodder, dyeing and sacramental plants, or in special ethnomedicinal practices and local ceremonies, too. The documented data contain both subsistent and disappeared elements in the selected period, which highlights the necessity of the ethnobotanical collecting works in the country nowadays.