J. L. HUDSON, SEEDSMAN, BOX 337, LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA 94020-0337 USA
LINKS
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NEW = New Listing this year. Updated 15 May 2010.
For links to seed and plant sources see Other
Sources.
Seed Germination Information
Conservation of Biological Diversity
Floras
Libraries
Databases
Medicinal Plants Information
Plant Uses
Miscellaneous Useful Sites
Botanical Link Sites
Seed Germination Information:
Handbook of Seed Technology for Genebanks - Volume II. Compendium of Specific Germination Information and Test
Recommendations.
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/publications/Web_version/52/
This is the single most detailed book on seed germination that I know of.
"Suggested purity and/or germination testing methods for species without AOSA Rules testing procedures" may be found in both
.pdf and word.doc form at:
http://www.aosaseed.com/reference.htm
Ontario Rock Garden Society Germination database:
http://www.onrockgarden.com/
Thompson and Morgan Seed Guide.
http://www.backyardgardener.com/tm.html
This is an internet reprint of the old T&M seed-starting guide.
Tom Clothier's Germination Databases.
http://tomclothier.hort.net
Conservation of Biological Diversity:
The No White List Coalition.
www.geocities.com/nowhitelist
Important! Read this site! Learn about the impending banning of the
possession and distribution of 99% of living species by the U.S. government in
collusion with the herbicide industry. These regulations are already being
phased in. Yes, it's real, and coming soon. It is already in place in New
Zealand, where it costs NZ$30,000.00 (currently about US$23,600.00)to get
permission to import a single species! Read about it in the New
Zealand Herald.
Cactus Conservation Institute.
www.cactusconservation.org
Dedicated to the preservation of cacti, particularly Astrophytum asterias
and Lopho phora in Texas.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
www.bgci.org.uk/
Floras:
Flora of North America.
www.fna.org
Flora of China.
http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china
Floras Online.
www.efloras.org
Flora of Bulgaria.
http://www.bgflora.net/
NEW GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-syn/index.htm
Kew's giant database of all the grasses in the world! Has descriptions, keys, the works!
Libraries:
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.
www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/cbhl/cbhl.htm
National Agricultural Library.
www.nal.usda.gov/
Look stuff up!
Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org
Free books online!
Databases:
Bibliography of References Related to Seed Dormancy and/or
Germination in Higher Plants.
http://library.usask.ca/dbs/seed.html
A database of 12,000 items, complied by Prof. G.M. Simpson. Amazing!
Vascular Plant Image Library.
www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm
I know you hate me because I don't have enough pictures on my website! Check
here for more plant pictures than you ever imagined.
California Flora Database.
www.calflora.org/
Information on California plants.
Missouri Botanical Garden W3Tropicos Database. http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
Even though the Missouri Botanical Gardens is severely compromised by
funding from Monsanto, there are still many people there doing important work.
But whatever you do, don't believe a word that MBG director Peter Raven says
about genetic engineering - in this respect, he has been described as "a
paid traveling salesman for Monsanto" and a "wolf in sheep's
clothing", and he is spreading disinformation on genetically-engineered
crops by carefully avoiding or dismissing the many serious issues surrounding
them. He has gone so far as to accuse those who oppose the unrestricted and
unregulated spread of genetically-engineered plants as spreading "economically-motivated
disinformation", and that they are guilty of "a serious crime
against humanity." Yes, Peter, I agree - those who spread
"economically-motivated disinformation" are guilty of "a
serious crime against humanity" - particularly those who do so in the
service of Monsanto. Time to have a heart-to-heart conversation with the man in
the mirror, Peter!
For more information, go to:
Article - "PETER AND THE WOLF: Why Missouri Botanical Garden's Peter Raven,
world-renowned environmentalist, courts Monsanto's favor, boosts its biotech and
takes its money": http://www.rftstl.com/issues/1999-11-03/news/feature_print.html
Raven debating GMOs: http://pewagbiotech.org/events/0204/transcript.php
A speech by Raven to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome:
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=4452
- an emotional, inflammatory, obscene, and completely over-the-top rant by
Raven.
Federal and State Noxious Weeds Database. www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxweed.pl
Check here to find out what is illegal in your area. Ever wonder why you
can't grow the valuable medicinal plant St. John's Wort in California? Why you
can't grow arugula in Washington? Or why you will be fined $100 for possessing
watercress in Connecticut?
World Diversity Database.
www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WBD.html
A continuously growing taxonomic database that aims to document all
presently known species (about 1.7 million).
World Taxonomist Database.
www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html
Who is working on what.
Listing of Useful Plants of the World. www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/listing/listingindex.htm
Over 4200 species. Extensive bibliographies for some, others with very
little info.
National Plants Database.
http://plants.usda.gov/
Huge database of information and images of plants in the US and territories.
World Seed Laws Database.
http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/legals_query.htm
You don't want to know!
International Plant Names Index.
www.ipni.org/index.html
Find information on who named a species and where the original species
description was published.
Medicinal Plants Information:
Herbal Materia Medica.
www.swsbm.com/ManualsMM/MatMed5.txt
Still my favorite site on the entire internet, if only because it is plain
text - no BS. Lots of information on medicinal plants.
More manuals from Moore.
www.swsbm.com/ManualsMM/MansMM.html
Medicinal plant information.
PubMed Central.
http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov
PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health free digital
archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. A free archive of
life sciences journal articles. You can find lots of research on medicinal
plants here. A tutorial on the use of PubMed can be found at http://www.nim.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
Journal of Ethnopharmacology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788741
Medicinal plant information - search the abstracts, and learn the results of
cutting-edge science into the pharmacology of plants.
Journals in Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry. www.phcog.org/journals.html
Find more journals on plant chemistry and pharmacology.
Plant Uses:
The Society for Economic Botany.
www.econbot.org/
A great society for those interested in the uses of plants by man. High
quality journal. Join! Very egalitarian and friendly - the place to go to rub
shoulders with great ethnobotanists. I've been a member since, what? 1974? Been
reading the Journal since high school.
NEW Jim Duke's Ethnobotanical Database.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
International Centre for Underutilised Crops. www.soton.ac.uk/~icuc/index3.html
NEW Ethnobotanical Leaflets International Web Journal.
http://www.ethnoleaflets.com
Great peer-reviewed science free on the web!
NEW The Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
http://www.niscair.res.in/sciencecommunication/ResearchJournals/rejour/ijtk/ijtk0.asp
Publishes
original research papers, review articles, and short communications concerned with the observation and experimental investigation of the biological activities of the materials from plants, animals and minerals, used in the traditional health-care systems such as Ayurveda, Siddha, Yoga, Unani, Naturopathy, Homoeopathy,
and Folk-remedies. Free peer-reviewed science on
the web!
Miscellaneous Useful Sites:
AgriSeek.
www.agriseek.com
A marketplace where buyers and sellers of all kinds of agricultural products and
equipment can connect.
For USDA notices of new regulations: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor/ppq.html
Check here to find notices of proposed regulations and public comment
periods. Ranges from sensible and rational approaches to genuine pests, to
reckless bureaucratic pork.
The Writings of Charles Darwin.
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/
Fully searchable. A great resource on the writings of a great man.
Darwin Day Website.
www.darwinday.org/
Celebrate Darwin's birthday!
Ecofascism.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/ecofasc.html
The full text of EcoFascism: Lessons From The German Experience, by Biehl
& Staudenmaier, 1995.
Evolution Education.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu
Operated by the University of California to help teachers, it is the subject
of a lawsuit challenging public funding of the site.
Fallacy Files.
www.fallacyfiles.org
More than you ever wanted to know about fallacious reasoning! From
Abstraction to Wishful Thinking. Learn to recognize false and misleading
arguments, as used in daily life. Stop being duped!
Fallacy Definitions.
www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
Definitions of fallacies like "Straw Man", "Ad Hominem",
etc. Learn to recognize false and misleading arguments, as used in daily life.
ForFarmers.
www.forfarmers.com
A marketplace for buying and selling crops, livestock, seeds, and agricultural
equipment and services, as well as job opportunities.
Freedom From Religion.
www.ffrf.org
An excellent organization working to uphold the wishes of the Founding
Fathers and the explicit requirement of the United States Constitution to keep
church and state separate. We are members ourselves, and enjoy their informative
journal Freethought Today.
Earth and Moon Viewer.
www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Amazing different views of the earth, including up to date weather satellite
imagery.
The Eucalyptus of California. http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/euctoc.htm#toc
A wonderful paper on Eucalyptus in California - history, botany, uses,
cultivation, and more. More information than you ever imagined.
The International Triggerplant Society.
http://www.triggerplants.org/
Triggerplant (Stylidium) enthusiasts.
My Garden.
www.mygarden.net.au
Big gardening website based in Australia, but with worldwide links. Home and
garden resources online.
National Remote Automatic Weather Stations Data Server. http://raws.boi.noaa.gov/rawsobs.html
Government at its best! Raw data from automated weather stations all across
the U.S. In 2005, when I first listed this site, I said "Probably the only
people in government who aren't lying to you." Well, I was wrong! They give
fake info on the exact locations of the weather stations, probably to foil
vandals. Still a great service, and a government program I can support—but
jeeze, is there anyone in government not lying to us?
Plant Systematics.
http://www.plantsystematics.org
Has an extensive library of plant photos.
Remote Automatic Weather Stations Climate Archive. www.wrcc.dri.edu/wraws/
Maps showing approximate, but fake locations of the weather stations, with
archived data from each station.
More Links!
Catalog of Botanical Links. www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/idb-alpha/botany.html#a
The ultimate catalog of botanical links! Hundreds of links. I dare you to
surf them all!
Has everything from:
Still more Botanical Links.
www.rockgardener.com/last/resort.cfm
Very well laid out, with descriptions of what you get on each site to save
you from visiting sites that aren't just what you want. *