🚀 go-pugleaf

Are you referring to a noisy, flighty, chattering, inconsequential.
irrelevant, pestiferous, gaudy, annoying and randy Budgerigar...?
Get serious Cereus, and stick to horticulture.




"Cereus-validus" <fashizzle.youself@spam.net> wrote in message
news:VEe8d.6638$Rf1.4098@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> Right back at ya, Kangaroo boy.
>
> Despite your best efforts to the contrary, you can still actually learn a
> thing or two!!!
>
> How about looking up a Parakeelya for me?
>
>
> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2sd7koF1jpi5iU1@uni-berlin.de...
> > In article <20041004085825.03855.00004009@mb-m19.aol.com>,
> > iriscohen@aol.com (Iris Cohen) wrote:
> > ><< Im a possible botany major, and was wondering if anyone knew of good
> > >websites out there, that can provide info/pictures of trees and shrubs.
> > >
> > >Are you for real or a troll? We have a curmudgeon in this group who is
> going to
> > >blast you for that question.
> >
> > Hey, Iris!  I hope you're not referring to Celluloid!  (Actually, I
> > saw Toy Boy's response earlier, and he gave an interesting link that
> > I wasn't aware of, to an enormous compendium of websites -- albeit
> > still rather "unedited".  But thanks anyway, mate. :-)
> >
> > >If you are serious and a college student, you need to learn how to use
> your
> > >seach engine. I suggest you start by searching on the name of a
specific
> tree,
> >
> > True, to a point.  But the poor bugger may not yet know about Latin
> > binomials.  [An aside -- I heard the other day that some bloke is
> > proposing some new taxonomic system that isn't quite so much at the
> > whim of professionals when it comes to name changes.  But the mate
> > who mentioned it couldn't recall the reference. :-(  ]
> >
> > Frankly, I see nothing at all wrong with approaching a group of
> > self-declared "experts" in a newsgroup called sci.bio.botany and
> > asking for opinions about "good websites" as the OP wanted.  What's
> > wrong with that?  Why should *everyone* wade through all the crap out
> > there when there are people who do that sort of thing for a living and
> > can point you in the right direction?
> >
> > If I'm crook, I don't go to the Internet, or even the local library,
> > looking for solutions at random.  I go to the local quack for advice
> > and treatment by one who knows. (At least that's the theory. :)
> >
> > >say Cornus florida. You will find any number of sites with pictures and
> > >information. Bookmark the best ones and use them to find information on
> other
> > >trees. Eventually you will find the most useful sites. Some I would
> suggest are
> > >USDA, the National Forest Service, the US National Arboretum, and the
> > >University of Connecticut. The RHS is also a valuable resource.
> >
> > Typical yank.  What about the rest of the world?  Oh, I see you did
> > mention the Royal Horticultural Society.  Must be that "special
> > relationship" thing.  ;-)
> >
> > ObBotSites:
> > Oz stuff:  http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/herbarium/
> > More Oz stuff: http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/
> > Water weeds: http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/mcplnt1c.html (yankee :-)
> > Botanical Latin: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pbostock/
> > Kew: http://www.kew.org.uk/data/vascplnt.html
> > Poisonous plants: http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
> > Grasses:  http://biodiversity.bio.uno.edu/delta/grass/www/ident.htm
> > International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St Louis):
> > http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.
> > de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0001ICSLContents.htm
> > [The above URL obviously needs to be on one line.]
> > Indigenous knowledge:
> > http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/eblinks/ipr.html
> > Missouri Bot. Garden: http://www.mobot.org/
> > [Regarded as somewhat better than Kew in some respects now. :-( ]
> > Plants USA: http://plants.usda.gov/
> > Phytochemistry and Ethnobotany: http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
> >
> > Bugger it!  That's enough.  I'm getting carried away!
> > (And astute observers will note an anglophile bias here; not unlike
> > Iris's failing. Sorry world, but most Aussies are unilingual.  Sad.)
> >
> > Cheers, Phred.
> >
> > -- 
> > ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
> >
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