pcplantdb

[Robyn Williamson <rz.williamson@optusnet.com.au>]

G'day Stephanie and team

Still lurking and interested over here in Oz, but don't know the back 
end from the front end of a computer.
My speciality is the plants themselves and working with the 
relationships.

Chad wrote:

> The programing isn't the hard part.  The hard part is understanding
> and documenting those relationships.

I reckon you can't beat Linnaeus' original system.  When I know the 
FAMILY to which a genus/species belongs it can speak volumes to me even 
if I have never come across it before.  For example, legumes (N-fixers 
or nurse plants) are classified into the family FABACEAE (previously 
Leguminosae, Mimosaceae and/or Papilionaceae).  Therefore I would like 
to see each plant with 3 botanical names:  FAMILY/Genus/species.

Common names are a worry, the same plant can have 10 different ones, or 
2 different plants could have the same one.  I just did a job today 
where "Curry Plant" (a grey low-growing shrub - Helichrysum sp.) was 
specified with no botanical name.  They delivered "Curry Plant" (a tall 
green tree -Murraya sp.) so we couldn't use them.

Knowing the height and width at maturity would also be important for 
guild selection purposes.

Is this the sort of thing you mean?

Robyn Williamson
PDC, Urban Horticulturist
Hon Sec, Fagan Park Community Eco Garden Committee
Local Seed Network Coordinator, North Western Sydney Community Seed 
Savers
ph/fx:  (612) 9629 3560
email:  rz.williamson@optusnet.com.au
http://www.communityfoods.com.au
http://www.au.gardenweb.com/directory/fpceg
http://www.seedsavers.net/lsn/32.html

The community eco garden is located at Fagan Park, Arcadia Road, 
Galston 2159, open every day to the public.
Please contact us if you would like to visit when we are there.


Robyn Williamson
PDC, Urban Horticulturist
Hon Sec, Fagan Park Community Eco Garden Committee
Local Seed Network Coordinator, North Western Sydney Community Seed 
Savers
ph/fx:  (612) 9629 3560
email:  rz.williamson@optusnet.com.au
http://www.communityfoods.com.au
http://www.au.gardenweb.com/directory/fpceg
http://www.seedsavers.net/lsn/32.html

The eco garden is located at Fagan Park, Arcadia Road, Galston 2159, 
open every day to the public.
Please contact us if you would like to visit when we are there.