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Plants Links:

• Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest  Hot  - Fact sheet from Rainforest Action Network discusses the medicinal value of rainforests.
• Rain-Tree Tropical Plant Database  Hot  - Searchable database contains taxonomy data, phytochemical and ethnobotanical data, uses in traditional medicine, and clinical research including clinical abstracts for each plant.
• World Tree Database  Hot  - This website attempts to present all currently accepted generic, specific, subspecific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and extinct taxa. It is in both English and French
• Amazon Herb Company - Learn Brazilian Herbalogy. Your demand for wild,sustainable,Amazon Herbs makes the forest more valueable alive than dead.
• Native Plant Conservation Initiative - The NPCI is a consortium working collectively to solve the problems of native plant extinction and native habitat restoration.
• New Forests Projects - Features a list of tree species, free seeds, and information on reforestation projects.
• Orchid Smuggling and Conservation - Case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database (TED).
• Plants of the Machiguenga - An ethnobotanical study of eastern Peru.
• Platycerium as Epiphytes - Information on the 18 species of staghorn ferns.
• Rain Tree - Herbal products from the rainforest.
• Rainforestwonders - Information on growing orchids and bromeliads. Huge link page on the environment
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Extensive scientific information on plants and plant life, as well as conservation information.
• The Eden Project - Information about the Eden project, childrens' page, news. Focuses on our relationship with plants.
• The Ethnobotanical Experience - A site introducing the use of plants as medicines, also containing basic information about rainforests.
• The Families of Flowering Plants - Descriptions of Angiosperm families.
• The Natural Heritage Network - The largest ongoing effort in the western hemisphere to gather standardized data on endangered plants, animals, and ecosystems.
• The Neotropical Botany Pages - Links to numerous pages about rainforests, especially to a site about botany of the Los Amigos Conservation Area in Madre de Dios, Peru.
• The Orchid Weblopedia - Extensive online resource on orchids. From the Center for Conservation Biology Network.

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