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Long lists of fruits and nuts can be compiled, but it is not necessary to go into much detail here. We need only point out that the same patterns prevail as for grass seeds, legumes, and oil plants in that different species of the same genera are exploited almost everywhere they occur. In temperate zones, for example, species of walnut (Juglans), hickory (Carya), hazelnut (Corylus), chestnut (Castanea), beech (Betula), oak (Quercus), hawthorn (Crataegus), hackberry (Celtis), plum‐cherry (Prunus), bramblefruits (Rubus), grape (Vitis), elderberry (Sambucus), pine‐nuts (Pinus), and others were popular with gatherers in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia. In the tropics, some of the popular genera were (and are) Ficus, Citrus, Musa, Syzygium, Pandanus, Spondias, Adansonia, Artocarpus, Annona, and Carica. If a plant appeals to one gathering tribe, a similar plant is probably used by another tribe, even on another continent.