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Carnivorous Plants Database |
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Contains over three thousand entries of carnivorous plants. Includes images.
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HerbMed |
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Categorized, evidence-based resource
for herbal information, with hyperlinks to clinical and scientific
publications and dynamic links for automatic updating, produced
by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation.
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Internet Directory for Botany |
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A list of botany sites; browsable by subject category or alphabetical list, completely searchable by keyword.
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Medicinal and Poisonous Plant Databases |
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Not real databases, but well-constructed compendia of links to other sites.
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NAPRALERT |
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Large relational database of worldwide literature
on ethno medical, chemistry, pharmacology of plant, microbial,
and animal extracts from University of Illinois.
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Patents
Database |
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The US Patent and Trademark Office full-text
and full-page image database includes many entries related to
botanical medicine.
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SPECIES
DATABASE |
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From Leeds University, UK, the Species Database
contains nearly 7000 plants, either edible, have medicinal properties
or have some other use such as fibres, oils or soaps. Three
websites for searching and downloadable version.
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PubMed |
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National Library of Medicine’s search interface
to access the 10 million citations in MEDLINE, and Pre-MEDLINE,
and other related databases.
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Phytochemical
and Ethnobotanical Databases |
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Dr. James Duke is an advisory board member
of the Institute of East West Medicine. Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical
and Ethnobotanical Databases, Agricultural Research Service
of the US Department of Agriculture.
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The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany |
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Although the presentation may be a bit dry, the volume of information contained here is quite impressive.
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Tropical
Plant Database |
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Each plant file contains taxonomy data, phytochemical
and ethnobotanical data, uses in traditional medicine, and clinical
research from Raintree Nutrition, Inc, Austin, Texas.
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USDA's Plants Database |
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This page offers a huge database that lets you query for info on plants based on their common name, species name, or family name (so, unfortunately, you have to have an idea of what you're looking for before you can find it).
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