Plants For A Future - Database Search

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Either:

• Search by Name, Common Name or Family.
• Search for an Edible, Medicinal or Other Use.
• Search for plants native to a particular geographical Area.
• Search for plants which grow in a particular Habitat.
• Search every field for a particular Word.

On other pages

• Browse by Latin names
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• Browse by Common Names
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• Or browse by Family
• Advanced search, combines searches for native areas, habitats, and other characteristics like height, and soil types.
• Photo index just some of the pictures which will appear in the CD-ROM database.

• Or look at some Canned Queries (these are common searches for particular habitats, soils types etc. which you might like to do).
• Or see the list of New and renamed plants.
• Or look at the general Help or the help on Edible Uses Medicinal Uses Other Uses or Native Ranges.
• See the Database intro for more information about the history of the database.
• Download the database for use at home or get it sent on CD-ROM.
• Or try the Frames-JavaScript version. This offers an easier navigation scheme which lets you move from one plant description to the next without having to go back to the list of plants. Theres also a history of recient plant look ups.
• See the full list of Latin names and Common Names in a simple text format.
• Dutch common names of plants.
• See a description of how the web version of the database works. Includes how to link and version history.

If you have any problems with the database or any suggested improvement please mail me at webmaster@pfaf.org

Search by Name

Enter any of the following. No wild cards are allowed but you can enter part of a name and the search is case insensitive. For example a Latin name of salix will find all the willows. Sometimes names may be spelt differently, or the number of spaces may be different; in such cases try using a shorter name. For example instead of 'seabuckthorn' try 'sea' or 'buckthorn'.

Search by Use

Select any of the following uses. Or select none and use the plant criteria below.

Search by native geographical range

Search by Habitat

The page of Canned Queries has some other habitats you can search for.

Search for a particular Word

The following fields all have textual descriptions: Edible Uses, Medicinal Uses, Other Uses, Range, Habitat, Known Hazards, Cultivation Details and Propagation. The others either have short strings or single letter keys, they are probably best searched using the tables above.

If you want to search for an exact string you can use '_' to represent spaces or punctuation. For example 'red' would match 'sheltered', 'reduce' and 'red'; '_red' will match 'reduce' and 'red'; 'red_' will match 'sheltered' and 'red'; and '_red_' will match just 'red'. Hence to find red inks you could use '_red_ _ink_' with a Search Type of 'Field containing all of the word'. You can also use the underscore notation when searching for Latin names, i.e. '_x' will find plants with Latin names beginning 'X'.

The Canned Queries, Edible Uses, Medicinal Uses, Other Uses and Native Ranges pages have some ready made queries you can use.

Many thanks to the ibiblio at UNC for providing the web space.

Plant information taken from the Plants For A Future - Species Database.
Copyright (c) 1997-2001. Last Update: Feb 2002.
WEB search engine by Rich Morris - Home Page
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