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Article #90Re: Botany Sites
From: Cereus-validus
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:18
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:18
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Jealous, you wallaby ponce? Why don't you go back to your gay porn and stop being such a demented troll, Peter Puller? "Peter Jason" <paul@colonel.com.au> wrote in message news:cjstbs$2911$1@otis.netspace.net.au... > Are you referring to a noisy, flighty, chattering, inconsequential. > irrelevant, pestiferous, gaudy, annoying and randy Budgerigar...? > Get serious Cereus, and stick to horticulture. > > > > > "Cereus-validus" <fashizzle.youself@spam.net> wrote in message > news:VEe8d.6638$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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