Permaculture Information Web

[Heide Hermary <heide.hermary AT gaiacollege.ca>]

Wow, talk about thorough.  I have a ton of other stuff I need to do in 
the next couple of days, but will sit down soon and give you my 
feedback, which will be extensive....
Chers, Heide

Richard Morris wrote:

> Q2: what criteria do we want to record for plants.
>
> Botanical names and authors
>
> Synonyms and authors
>
> Common names
>     Posibly Language, and Locale for names
>
> Brief description of plant
>     1 paragraph summary of plant
>
> Photos of plant
>
> Botanical clasification
>     Rank: i.e. Cultivar, Species, Genus, Family
>     Parent: For species and genus - which family they are part of
>     Clasification scheme used:
>         Different schemes, such as conquist put plants in    
>         different families.
>
> Hazards
>     Hazards to humans
>         Toxicity
>     Hazards to environment
>         Invasive plants
>             Locales where plants are invasive
>     Diseases
>         What diseases they may be carries of.
>             For example sale of hawthorns is restricted in    
>             this country as they can spread diseases.
>
> Native range or Native Locales
>     locales where plants grow natively
>
> Cultivated range or Native Locales
>     locales where plants can be cultivated
>
> Native habitats
>     Habitats where plants grow natively
>
> Cultivated habitats
>     Habitats where plants can be cultivated (e.g. woodland garden)
>
> Plant Characteristics - physical stuff about the plant
>
>     Habit - tree, shrub, annual ,bienial etc.
>
>     Max Height - may want to include a locale
>         - might actually be a range
>
>     Height after 1, 5, 10 years?
>
>     Same for width.
>
>     Age range - annual, biannial, perennial (max age)
>
>     Growth rate - how fast it grows
>
> Botanical charteristics and identification
>
>     Type of flower -
>            hermaphrodite (the flower has both male and female    
>         organs).
>
>         monoecious (individual flowers are either male or
>         female, but both sexes can be found on the same plant).
>
>         dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female,
>         but only one sex is to be found on any one plant so both
>         male and female plants must be grown if seed is    
>         required)
>
>     Type of polination -
>         wind, insects (specific types), self fertile
>
>     Flower identification -
>         lots of botanical stuff about how to indetify a plant by
>         its flowers. Superiour overies. Closely linked to
>         Botanical clasification.
>
>     Type of fruit/seed
>
>     Seed dispersal - method
>
>     Fruit/seed identification
>
>     Leaf type/shape
>
>     Times -
>         When in leaf
>         When in flower
>         When in fruit
>         Number of fruiting seasons per year
>         Time until first fruiting
>
>         All the above need to be cross referenced with locales
>         at very least Nothern/Southern hemisphere or tropics.
>
> Cultivation Information
>
>     Temprature
>         Hardyness - which UDSA zones the plant grows in.
>
>         Frost tender - whether the plant can withstand frost
>
>         Number of days of frost plant can withstand
>
>         Min temprature plant can withstand
>
>         Max temprature
>
>     Moisture
>         Can it tolerate drought?
>
>         Can it tolerate water logged soil?
>
>     Soil
>         What Ph range it can tolerate
>
>         What Ph range it prefers
>
>         Can it tolerate saline soil/does it require saline soil.
>
>         Soil types it tolerates - clay, loam, etc
>
>         Soil types it prefers
>
>         Moisture level of soil - tolerates and prefers
>
>     Shade
>         What level of shade it tolerates/prefers
>
>     Other characteristics
>         A bit open ended allowing for other things like
>
>         Tolerate atmospheric polution
>         Tolerates grazing by dear
>         Resistant to grazing by dear
>         Tolerate mowing
>
>     Other cultivation info
>         Free text info on cultivation
>
> Propagation
>     Time to sow
>     Time to plant out
>     Stratification of seeds
>
> Pests and diseases
>     Vunerable to which pest/diseases
>     Resitance to particualar pest diseases
>
> Benifical relationships
>     What animals it attracts
>     What animals if is a food plant of
>     What animals it is a habitat of
>     What plants is is know to grow well with
>     What plant guilds it is a member of
>
> Use by man
>     Ethnobotanical information
>         Traditional uses of plants by diferent societies
>
> Edible Uses
>     Parts of Plant you can eat - keyword
>     Culinary uses - keyword
>     Rating of edible use
>
>     Nutritional information
>     Yield information
>
> Medicinal Uses
>     Keywords
>     Rating
>     text description
>
> Other Uses
>     key words
>     Rating
>     text description
>     
> History and Folklaw
>     Information about curtural aspects
>     Famous trees inc locale
>
> Growing experiences
>     A place for people to record experiences people have had with    
>     growing the plant.
>
> Links and references
>     Links to other websites
>     References to books
>
> Supliers
>     Places you can get the plants/seeds
>
> ---------
> So there you go.
>
> Comments, additions welcome. At this stage I think we should keep it 
> just what criteria we wish to record and not get involved in
> the how we record it.
>
> Best
>
> Rich
>
>
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