In the Environmental Science class that I teach, I have my students research biodiversity in a country of their choice. One of the options is to research ethnobotany or medicinal plants in their country. When students research this, they often just have to google “Medicinal plants in Spain” or which…

A single database? No. I have reference materials for medicinal plants for the US and Canada, the NW Amazon, Vietnam, parts of China, and a few other areas, but not all of those are digitized and I don’t know of a single unified database. I don’t even know of an area that has databases that don’t…

iNat have in the past been reluctant to support features that might promote medicinal or nutritional categorisation, and personally I think with good reason. There are many things that will have medical benefit, but they can also cause harm, depending largely on the context and manner in which they …

Yes, I understand your point, that makes perfect sense. Many plants are beneficial to medicine in small, controlled amounts and toxic in large amounts. So that definitely could have pitfalls by introducing a project or feature like that to iNat. Good thoughts.

[image] elkins456: Many plants are beneficial to medicine in small, controlled amounts and toxic in large amounts. Which of course is no different from the drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies. Every year, on average, 458 people die of Acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdose.

Maybe a Worldcat search would yield some more useful and/or scholarly results, if the books are available at a local library or through Inter-library Loan. Something like: “ethnobotany Spain” or “edible plants Montana” or “medicinal plants andes” might get you some good hits, and you can follow the …

[image] kiwifergus: iNat have in the past been reluctant to support features that might promote medicinal or nutritional categorisation, and personally I think with good reason. There are many things that will have medical benefit, but they can also cause harm, depending largely on the context a…

I didn’t see a mention of the age of the students in your Environmental Science class, so here are a number of possible approaches, from simple to more complex: A Google search of Medicinal Plant Map brings up at least two illustrated maps (one for the US ( https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet…

I’m finding it interesting that my animal and bird observations almost instantly get confirmed (or occasionally corrected:-) However, my plant observations are often orphans. I wonder why? Is it because plants have fewer aficionados? I’m thinking I should make a point of observing my meadow as more …

as long as you mark your “cultivated” plantings as such, they are fine… and even to leave them unmarked until you get ID and then mark as cultivated… pushing the boundaries of the “guidelines” a bit, but most of us do it. Just don’t encourage others to do it if they aren’t going to stick around and …

I wish I had kept the photo of the parson spider on my bathroom wall I took a couple of years ago. Took the photo to find out what it was. I’m a recovering arachnophobe, but willing to study. OTOH, they often move too fast for me to get a camera or phone before they’re gone. And likewise a Carolina …

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