I am sure most people here are aware of the superb books produced by Roger Phillips complete with great photographic guides, full identification text and notes on edibility, toxicity, often wonderful recipes etc. Well, I have just come across a web site called:
RogersPlants.com
Basically he has, or is in the process of making available all his most popular ident books online. It used to cost a lot to veiw it but now it is FREE! Including the excellent 'Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe' which is already available online at:
RogersMushrooms.com
It has over 1500 species and 3000 illustrations! and all the info found in the books including the original photos, text comments etc. All the info is on one page for each species with clickable photos for larger version. You have the option to buy the image/ photo but otherwise there is no crumby advertising or such like... quite stunning.
As an example check out the page for:
Boletus edulis - Cep
I mean, where else can you get a recipe for Baked Cep Stuffed with Haggis
This is wonderful enough on it's own BUT he is going to post other books too including:
RogersTreesandShrubs.com
Launch is planned next year for June 2005. This comprehensive site with over 7000 photographs and detailed text, of trees and shrubs from all the temperate regions.
and
RogersWildFlowers.com
To be launched in September 2006. Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix have gathered a collection of over 5000 photographs of native wild flowers whilst travelling all over the world.
There is already another of his books on Roses online and another one on Garden Plants due too.
One thing I noticed that on the upcoming domains they showed as 'Pending Renewal or Deletion' on networksolutions so I hope they do happen. Also I saw in a post he made on the site that it had lost money 'hand over fist' with a subscription basis (I believe it was seen as an expensive annual fee previously)
But whatever, these are superb resources and just the Mushroom one is worth it's weight in gold (or truffles ) It has a superb links page, the Visual Key and Easy Key are great aids;
What a bushy treasure...... the best one so far in 2005
Simon
RogersPlants.com
Basically he has, or is in the process of making available all his most popular ident books online. It used to cost a lot to veiw it but now it is FREE! Including the excellent 'Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe' which is already available online at:
RogersMushrooms.com
It has over 1500 species and 3000 illustrations! and all the info found in the books including the original photos, text comments etc. All the info is on one page for each species with clickable photos for larger version. You have the option to buy the image/ photo but otherwise there is no crumby advertising or such like... quite stunning.
As an example check out the page for:
Boletus edulis - Cep
I mean, where else can you get a recipe for Baked Cep Stuffed with Haggis
This is wonderful enough on it's own BUT he is going to post other books too including:
RogersTreesandShrubs.com
Launch is planned next year for June 2005. This comprehensive site with over 7000 photographs and detailed text, of trees and shrubs from all the temperate regions.
and
RogersWildFlowers.com
To be launched in September 2006. Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix have gathered a collection of over 5000 photographs of native wild flowers whilst travelling all over the world.
There is already another of his books on Roses online and another one on Garden Plants due too.
One thing I noticed that on the upcoming domains they showed as 'Pending Renewal or Deletion' on networksolutions so I hope they do happen. Also I saw in a post he made on the site that it had lost money 'hand over fist' with a subscription basis (I believe it was seen as an expensive annual fee previously)
But whatever, these are superb resources and just the Mushroom one is worth it's weight in gold (or truffles
) It has a superb links page, the Visual Key and Easy Key are great aids; What a bushy treasure...... the best one so far in 2005
Simon
