Botany

Chinese knotweed

Posted in Botany on November 9th, 2009 by Swany – Be the first to comment

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Shanghai Daily: “ZHENG Dexun shows off a humanshaped heshouwu, or Chinese knotweed, yesterday in Langzhong in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The herb, weighing 5.8 kilograms and standing 62 centimeters high, resembles a naked child. Zheng, 63, a farmer in Datianba Village, discovered the oddity five days ago while digging for the herb, which is used as a tonic for the kidneys and to treat weak bones and hair loss.”

Cruydeboek

Posted in Botany on September 16th, 2006 by Swany – Be the first to comment

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Cruydeboek

Distillerbuch

Posted in Botany, Scholia on May 26th, 2006 by Swany – Be the first to comment

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Galleria Carnivora

Posted in Botany on February 9th, 2006 by Swany – Be the first to comment

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Galleria Carnivora: A museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants.

Cannabis sativa at iSpecies

Posted in Botany, Cannabis on January 13th, 2006 by Swany – Be the first to comment

iSpecies: a test of E. O. Wilson’s idea of a web page for each species.

Curtis Botanical Magazine

Posted in Botany on December 3rd, 2005 by Swany – Be the first to comment

betonyU.S. National Argicultural Library: William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist living in London whose greater interest was the study of flora and insects. He maintained a large garden where he grew beautiful exotic plants, and began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. This digital presentation represents 1048 plates and 1456 related pages of text from the first 26 volumes.

Turning the Pages

Posted in Botany on December 3rd, 2005 by Swany – Be the first to comment

British Library Try the link for Classic of Botanical Illustration by Elizabeth Blackwell

Ritual Plant Atlas

Posted in Botany on December 3rd, 2005 by Swany – Be the first to comment

mandrakeScience: The Compendium of Symbolic and Ritual Plants in Europe, the first full modern survey of the role of plants in Europe’s religions, traditions, and medicine, was published in 2003. Previously, information on the subject has been scattered and lacking in botanical rigor, says ethnobotanist Marcel De Cleene of the University of Ghent in Belgium. De Cleene and colleague Marie Claire Lejeune spent 20 years filling the gap. The 1600-page Compendium contains information collected from thousands of texts dating to ancient Roman and Greek times.

Duchess’s poison dell will lure visitors

Posted in Botany on November 2nd, 2004 by Swany – Comments Off


The Guardian
April 5, 2004.  
Provided that a duchess can see eye-to-eye with the Home Office on growing cannabis, strychnine and cocaine, Britain is about to get the most venomous and hallucinogenic garden it has ever seen. Harking back to medieval times, but with a toxic arsenal that a witch or apothecary could only dream of, the project includes shrubs and creepers so potentially nasty that the designers have suggested growing some of them in cages.

Medicinal Plants: Selected Internet Resources

Posted in Botany on November 2nd, 2004 by Swany – Comments Off


Library of Congress

A Science Reference Section Webliography.