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Off-Topic Area => General Plants and Gardening => Topic started by: David Pilling on December 21, 2022, 09:44:11 AM
I got this message today. Interesting for the plants, also as a comparison to the PBS wiki.
"I run 3 homepages which combine a botanical key with pictures. My aim is to describe the Flora of Germany (www.flora-de.de), the ornamental plants of Germany (www.zierpflanzenflora.de) and the Flora of the Alps and the Mediterranean from Greece to Portugal (www.mittelmeerflora.de)."
That's pretty ambitious!
Individuals can do a lot. This is an example for the UK:
https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/
I suspect he went out hiking every week with a camera.
I know and use Blumeninschwaben.de (the one he tries to rebrand to flora-de for quite a while now. google doesn't follow ;) ) and mittelmeerflora.de for several years now, both are good sites with very good keys and descriptions. The Germany one is covering a good portion of the flora - with Mittelmeerflora I'm not competent enough to judge the bandwith. I think I've seen Zierpflanzenflora for the first time today, but I think he's totally in over his head with that one.
So: What's the idea, why did he contact us?
What a well-designed site the UK one is! Everything right there.
Interesting information about more than just plants, too. Like how butterfly wings are pigmented.
Quote from: Martin Bohnet on December 21, 2022, 10:59:13 AMSo: What's the idea, why did he contact us?
He wanted to use some of my photos from the PBS wiki, of ranuculus asiaticus:
http://www.mittelmeerflora.de/Zweikeim/Ranunculaceae/ranu_asia.htm#Ranunculus%20asiaticus
which is not a particularly interesting fact.