International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research Volume 4, Issue 3, ISSN (Online) 2319-1473 Manuscript Processing Details (dd/mm/yyyy) : Received : 10/08/2014 | Accepted on : 25/08/2014 | Published : 18/11/2014 Ethnobotany of Spice and Condiment Plants and the Associated Indigenous Knowledge on Management, Utilization and Conservation of them in and around Home Gardens in Loma and Gena Bosa Districts (Weredas) of Dawuro Zone, Southern Ethiopia Mathewos Agize Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolaita Sodo University; P.O. Box 138, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia. Email:
[email protected]; Tel: +251917832475, Fax:+251465515113 Abstract – This paper documents the traditional to small-scale plant and animal husbandry and the management, conservation and use of plant diversity continued intensification resulted in the emergence of full- focusing on spices and condiment plants found in and around scale agriculture in gardens and fields (9;43). Home home gardens along with the indigenous biological garden is the farming around the home in which different knowledge in Loma and Gena Bosa Woredas of Dawuro types of plants are cultivated for the different needs of Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Data was collected from September 2006-March 2007 to get relevant information and plant families like food, medicinal plants (26;41), spices, specimen of different seasons. The ethnobotanical condiments, and dyes (9; 27). The process of plant information was gathered from 32 spices and medicinal domestication whereby societies select as useful species plants vendors (from market observation and interviewing 16 from the wild is still currently taking place in some men and 16 women).