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ARBORETA, BOTANICAL GARDENS
- Arboretum of
Borova Hora, Technical University in Zvolen (Slovakia)
- Arboretum
de Villardebelle, France. The Arboretum is dedicated
to conifers from all around the world. It is located in
the South West of France near the Pyrenees and the
Mediterranean Sea. The main aim of the Arboretum is to
help the conservation of endangered species.
- U Currency
Creek Arboretum, Adelaide, Australia
- Kivik-Esperöds
Arboretet, Sweden. The Society for Kiviks-Esperöds
Arboretet was formed in order to document and maintain a
unique arboretum founded by Albert Wallis in 1922. The
arboretum is situated in the south of Sweden near the
village of Kivik and with Simrishamn as the closest city.
- The
University of Alabama in Huntsville Grounds and Arboretum
(Huntsville, Alabama, USA). The site contains a
comprehensive list of the more than 200 different trees
located on the campus. Many are linked with descriptions
and images of foliage, form, flower, etc.
- Botanical
Garden, Institute of Botany, Karl-Franzens-University of
Graz, Austria
- Canadian
Botanical Conservation Network - Web Directory of
Canadian Botanical Gardens
- U Canadian
Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
- D Botanischer Garten der Universität Regensburg,
Germany
- Botanisches
Institut und Botanischer Garten der TU Braunscweig -
Arbeitsgruppe Vegetationökologie (Germany)
- Botanischer
Garten der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald,
Germany
- Botanischer
Garten, Köln (Cologne, Germany)
- Botanischer
Garten der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
(Germany)
- Pinetum
Blijdenstein/botanical garden/ Hilversum, Netherlands.
This arboretum holds more endangered conifers than any
other garden in the world, according to recent research
at Kew Gardens. Blijdenstein is highly important for the
ex situ conservation and distribution of these endangered
species.
- D Jardi Botanic de la Universitat de Valencia gopher
- Palmeras y
jardines en el Suroeste de Europa (Palms and gardens in
the South-west of Europe). Palms that can be
cultivated in Mediterranean and temperate climates, the
most interesting public Parks and Gardens in the
south-west of Europe (Spain and Portugal), palm and plant
nurseries, maps, palm and gardens bibliography, links of
palm and cycads.
- Birmingham
Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, UK
- U Pine
Lodge Gardens, St. Austell, Cornwall - National UK
Grevillea Collection
- Chanticleer
Garden, Pennsylvania, USA. A 31-acre pleasure garden
near Philadelphia, PA.
- EightMile
Gardens, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA. EightMile
Gardens - a New American garden park taking form in East
Haddam, Connecticut - features unusual gardens, an
artists' colony, performance venues, and a memorial park.
EightMile Gardens is presented by Radek Associates, which
is dedicated to promoting excellence in creative
expression.
- V The New York Botanical
Garden, the Bronx, New York, USA. The Garden was
founded in 1891 by botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton.
Today, this National Historic Landmark is recognized for
its horticultural excellence, educational programs, and
scientific research. Situated on 250 acres in the Bronx,
the northernmost borough of New York City, it includes 27
outdoor gardens and plant collections, the nation's most
beautiful Victorian conservatory and a 40-acre
pre-settlement forest in the heart of the city. The NYBG
receives more than 500,000 visitors a year.
- Restoring
McKee Botanical Garden (Florida, USA) by Leigh Fulghum
- San
Jose Heritage Rose Garden, (California, USA)
- Tropical
Gardens of Maui (Hawaii, USA). A 4 acre tropical
garden and certified export nursery located on the island
of Maui, Hawaii, USA.
- Vines Botanical
Gardens, GA, USA. Beautiful 25 acre cultivated
gardens. Extensive collection of European statuary, a
large heirloom rose collection and Hosta collection.
Water is a central theme with a 3.5 acre lake and several
different water features. An educational program for both
children and adults. The most popular attraction is the
restaurant overlooking the gardens.
BIOLOGISTS' ADDRESSES
BOTANICAL MUSEUMS, NATURAL HISTORY
MUSEUMS, HERBARIA
- Australian
National Herbarium, Centre for Plant Biodiversity
Research (CANB; Canberra, Australia)
- John
Ray Herbarium, University of Sydney, (New South Wales,
Australia; SYD)
- National
Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens, South Yarra
(MEL; Victoria, Australia)
- Type Specimens of
the Dutch Herbaria. The database, funded by the
Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) and produced with
the package BRAHMS (Denis Filer, Oxford, England),
combines all known type specimens of the four Dutch
herbaria: Amsterdam (AMD), Leiden (L), Utrecht (U), and
Wageningen (WAG). Not only the cooperation among the
herbaria is unique, also the fact that digital images are
available of most type specimens. The database presently
(December 1998) holds 40,000 records and 30,000 images.
- Botany Dept (BM),
The Natural History Museum in London
- The
Natural History Museum in London - Botany Dept Database.
In December 1999 orchid specimen database and
Scrophulariaceae names index.
- The
Natural History Museum: Belize Research Station
- Catalogue
of Type Specimens in the Vascular Plant Herbarium (DAO;
Ottawa, Canada)
- Carl W.
Sharsmith Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences,
San José State University, USA
- U Colorado
State University Herbarium (Fort Collins, CO, USA)
- North
American Bryophyte Herbaria. The location and
contents of the approximately 100 largest bryophyte
herbaria in North America are summarized on a new web
page available from the New York Botanical Garden North
American Bryophyte Catalog web site. The herbaria can be
searched by acronym or by clicking a point on a
distribution map. Each bryophyte herbarium is linked to
the on-line Index Herbariorum database for current
contact information.
- University of New
Hampshire, Hodgdon Herbarium, USA
- Herbario, Instituto de
Recursos Biológicos, Centro de Recursos Naturales
I.N.T.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina (BAB)
- Herbario,
Departamento Científico de Plantas Vasculares, Museo de
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (LB)
- Herbario
Unidad Chetumal El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Quintana
Roo, Mexico (CIQR)
- Herbario,
Departamento de Investigaciones Científicas y
Technológicas, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico (USON)
- Herbario,
Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Veracruz, Mexico (XAL)
- Herbario
del Centro Regional del Bajío del Instituto de Ecología
(IEB; Mexico)
BOTANICAL SOCIETIES, INTERNATIONAL
BOTANICAL ORGANIZATIONS
ONE GROUP
- Vancouver
Orchid Society, Canada. The Vancouver Orchid Society,
one of Canada's largest Orchid Societies, and Host of the
16th World Orchid Conference, meets at Vandusen Botanical
Gardens on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from
September to June.
OTHER
- Australasian
Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
- BotResearch,
botanical research organization (Spring, Texas, USA).
Botresearch,a non-profit botanical research organization
headquartered in Spring,Texas USA ,is dedicated to the
exchange of botanical knowledge between researchers,
educational institutions,and the general public.
- Manitoba
Association of Plant Biologists, Canada. The Manitoba
Association of Plant Biologists represents a group
individuals in Manitoba, Canada with an interest in
promoting plant biology in schools, government and the
private sector. The association is open to anyone with
formal training in plant biology i.e. those with a
Bachelor's degree, or an advanced degree in such areas as
Botany, Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences, Agronomy, Forest
Biology, Horticulture or similar plant-related fields.
- U Botaniska
föreningen i Göteborg - Gothenburg Botanical Society,
Sweden
- University
of Guyana Botany Club. The Club is located in
Turkeyen, Guyana, S. America. The club is for all plant
lovers (not necessarily students). It aims to make plants
more fun.
- U University
of Oklahoma Botanical Society
- University
of Wyoming Botany Club
CHECKLISTS AND FLORAS, TAXONOMIC
DATABASES, VEGETATION
- List of
Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature. The
List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature has
been compiled by J.P. Euzéby, Laboratoire de
Bactériologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de
Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
- The Plant
Names Project. The Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian
National Herbarium have formed a consortium called the
Plant Names Project (PNP), whose goal is to create and
maintain a comprehensive authority file for the names of
all seed plants (flowering plants and
"gymnosperms"), and make it freely available on
the Internet as the International Plant Names Index
(IPNI). The PNP is developing the infrastructure to
manage and edit data across continents, to keep these
IPNI authority files continuously available and updated,
and to provide transparent access to the large audience
of scientists, citizens, and institutions who rely on
these data.
- Soqotra
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. These pages outline
the on-going work of RBGE and its collaborators on the
islands of the Soqotra (Socotra) Archipelago. They
include the text from several published and unpublished
articles along with many images of the plants of the
islands. In the near future checklists of the plants and
birds of the islands will be added, along with additional
articles.
- L'Index
Synonymique de la Flore de France de Michel Kerguélen
est une liste alphabétique des taxons de la flore
spontanée et cultivée française, leurs synonymes et
leurs hybrides. Il comporte environ 62 000 citations de
taxons.
- U Piante
di Sicilia (Plants of Sicily, Italy) by Girolamo Giardina
- The
riparian flora of the Oker river system (northern part of
Germany) by Friedrich Wilhelm Oppermann & Dietmar
Brandes, Vegetation Ecology and experimental Plant
Sociology, Botanical Institut and Botanical Garden, TU
Braunschweig.
- U Plantas do Nordeste
CONSERVATION, THREATENED PLANTS
ECONOMIC BOTANY, ETHNOBOTANY
GARDENING
- Butterfly WebSite.
The site is designed for gardeners, teachers, students,
butterfly farmers, and naturalists. It references over 70
articles on butterfly gardening.
- The
Cold-Rating DataBank. Learn about general concepts of
selecting, planting, and protecting palms, cycads, and
tropicals in temperate zones with occasional and frequent
freezes.
- The
Cool Tropics - Grow coldhardy palms, cycads,.. from seed.
The site interactively collects freeze-data on palms,
cycads, and other tropical plants. Plus, has a lot of
information on how to plant these tropicals in a
temperate climate.
- CybeRose
Garden. Dedicated to the Old, Odd & Rare; Rose
Gallery.
- Internet Gardening
Magazine. Monthly magazine for UK and European
gardeners with articles on all gardening subjects plus
e-mail advice line, information, plant seed and bulb
brochures, gardening design and software, and specialist
nurseries. Published by Southerwood Publishing based in
the South West of England.
- The Mining Co. Guide
to Roses
- Orchid Species
Culture by Charles and Margaret Baker
- Puutarhaliitto -
Trädgårdsförbundet. Finnish gardening and
horticulture organization.
IMAGES
- Images
de la Flore de France. Hundreds of images of French
flowers - especially from the Alps, the Mediterranean
region, shores of Brittany; lots of orchids. The site is
maintained by Eric Bourneuf.
- Sveriges växter
- Den virtuella floran ("Virtual Flora of Swedish
Vascular Plants") by Arne Anderberg, Anna-Lena
Anderberg and Mia Ehn Salter, Swedish Museum of Natural
History, Stockholm. Vernacular names in several
languages, morphological decsription, distribution maps
(scanned from Hultén's "Atlas över växternas
utbredning i Norden" and from Hultén, E. &
Fries, M. 1986. Atlas of North European vascular plants:
north of the Tropic of Cancer I-III), economic uses,
etymology of scientific names, images, etc. Text in
Swedish.
JOURNALS, BOOKS, LITERATURE
DATABASES, PUBLISHERS
- The Compleat
Cladist. The Compleat Cladist: A Primer of
Phylogenetic Procedures by E.O. Wiley, D. Siegel-Causey,
D.R. Brooks, and V.A. Funk is out of print, but the text
can be downloaded from the University of Kansas Natural
History Museum. A new edition is expected during 2000.
The
- Journal
of Phycology Online, bi-monthly publication of the
Phycological Society of America
- Newsletter of the
National Biological Information Infrastructure, USA
- Plant
Cuttings, an on-line newsletter by Department of Botany,
Natural History Museum, London. Plant Cuttings brings
together highlights of current botanical research at the
Museum, recent events and news of botanists working
behind the scenes. Plant Cuttings will initially be
issued once every six months.
- POLIBOTANICA,
a botanic journal in Mexico, published quarterly.
- article@INIST - The
library catalogue of the Scientific and Technical
Institute (France). Free access and consultation of
the INIST international collections. Documents from
periodicals (serials), theses or congresses, with focus
on : biology, botany, agronomic, plant genetics. Ordering
and delivering of document copies.
- Backhuys
Publishers - antiquarian and new books on general botany
- Briza Publications.
Briza Publications spesialises in publishing books on the
unique southern African flora. Popular topics include
medicinal plants, succulents, trees and grasses.
LINK COLLECTIONS, RESOURCE
GUIDES
LISTSERVERS AND NEWSGROUPS
LOWER PLANTS
OTHER RESOURCES
- TDWG
Subgroup on Accession Data: Standards, Information
Models, and Data Dictionaries for Biological Collections.
Page maintained by Walter Berendsohn in Berlin.
- Didacticiel de
Biologie Végétale
- U Parasitic
Plant Connection by Dan Nickrent, Southern Illinois
University College of Science, USA
- Plant
Tissue Culture Resources. Carol's Plant Tissue
Culture Resource Page contains information on listservs,
protocols, supplies, plant cultures, sources of plants,
where to get advice, science fair ideas, projects for
school and hobbyists. Maintained by Carol M. Stiff. USA.
- The
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of
California, Santa Barbara Library .
PALEOBOTANY, PALYNOLOGY, POLLEN
SOFTWARE
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS, OTHER
INSTITUTES
- Institute of Plant
Physiology / University of Vienna, Austria. The
Institute comprises the divisions of Horticultural Plant
Physiology, Ecology and Anatomy of Plants, Vegetation
Ecology and Conservation Biology, Hydrobotany, Chemical
Physiology of Plants, Cell Physiology and Scientific
Film. The research at the institute focuses on stress
physiology, climatic change, dry matter and energy
partioning, chlorophyll fluorescence and gas exchange,
functional and analytical plant physiology, stress
metabolites in Higher Plants, tree Physiology, assimilate
transfer and the effect on ecophysiological changes in
the rhizosphere and many more.
- Laboratory
of Plant Systematics and Vegetation Ecology, Universite
Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Biogeosciences Dijon,
Université de Bourgogne, France
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut
für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Systematische Botanik,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)
- Botanisches
Institut und Botanischer Garten der TU Braunscweig -
Arbeitsgruppe Vegetationökologie (Germany)
- Universität
Bielefeld, Abteilung Ökologie (Germany)
- N Vilnius
University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lithuania -
(REPLACES the old entry: Vilnius Pedagogical
University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lithuania)
- Departamento
de Botanica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
- U Instituto Pirenaico
de Ecologia (Spain)
VASCULAR PLANT FAMILIES
- Araliales
Resource Centre by Mark Watson and Martin Pullan, RBG
Edinburgh, UK. The Araliales Resource Centre enables
access to a wide variety of information relating to the
plant families Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) and Araliaceae.
This first stage contains data on 100 researchers
worldwide, on-going projects, publications and much more
additional relevant information.
- Palm
information developed by Dr. Henry Donselman, Palm Trees,
Tropicals, Subtropicals
- WEIGELA -
Ein Sichtungsversuch
- Neotropical
Blueberries (Ericaceae) by James L. Luteyn, New York
Botanical Garden. The site provides access to databases,
keys, descriptions, color images, distribution maps,
local names and uses of neotropical Ericaceae. The site
also includes monographic and floristic studies
reflecting Luteyn's 30 years of research on the family,
as well as that of some of his ericologist colleagues.
- U Los
Jazmines cultivadoes en España
- Orchids
of Biebrza National Park (N-E Poland) by Cezary
Werpachowski
- World Orchid
Conference 1999, Vancouver, Canada. The world's
largest scientific and horticultural conference dedicated
to Orchids comes to Vancouver, Canada from April 28th to
May 2nd, 1999.
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