April 14, 2010

Anthos

Proyecto Anthos is a website hosted by the Royal Spanish Botanical Garden that has a comprehensive database of Spanish flora. It provides taxonomic information, common names, references, conservation info, pictures, botanical drawings and has a very easy to use and powerful search tool. The site is both in English and Spanish.

The tool I that find most useful is the Geographical Search. It allows you to find in a map (based on Google Maps, and enriched with more information layers) specific locations where a species has been reported to grow. This helps while organizing field trips and also provides information when trying to verify the species of a plant that one has found in a specific location.

As an example, you can see in the following screen capture the location of Pinguicula mundi in Spain (click to enlarge).

April 12, 2010

We have moved!

Plantaland has returned to Blogger, with a refreshed look! Pics are now bigger and some functionality not directly visible has been enhanced.
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