MOBOT - Missouri Botanical Gardens

[Ahjno]

Just came across this very interesting website:

Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html

It covers: detailed description of a plant family-characteristics, its family-tree (no pun intended), world coverage and sometimes its chemical components.

Bit scientific, but interesting none the less.
Have a looksy

 

[Jodie]

Oooooh that is quite detailed!!
The guy running it sounds like a very pleasant chap - I was impressed with his 'warning'
to readers highlighting the limitations of the project. It might be a bit much for me but
I shall have a wander around it when I'm next at my home computer.

Are you going to the Society for Economic Botany's conference next year? It sounds
like there are some cool activities before and after as well as during. I have to say, I'm
extremely tempted...

http://www.econbot.org/_organization_/index.php?sm=07|meetings_by_year/2008

Hope you get to do the Leiden course too!

 

[xylaria]

Rich59 introduced me the world according to APG about a year ago, and to be honest when I first saw it I thought what have they done to the taxonomy that I know, and screamed. When got more use to it I realised, this was a piece of research that the likes of it the world has never seen. This will be the biggest change in how we think about plants since Darwin. Changes like this are rare in botany, we are very privileged to see this unfurl in our lifetime.