Tim Tyler wrote in message ...
I've used the "Taxonomy Browser" - at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi

...to prepare a family tree of edible plants:

http://sprouting.org/taxonomy/plants/

This is quite a large page - and takes a while to load and display.

My tree contains much the same information as is in the database -
but *only* the major edible plants are listed.

This helps to remove clutter - manages to fit everything onto one page -
and /hopefully/ makes it a lot easier to see what is related to what.

This page may be of interest to those who are interested in
the genetic relationships between edible plants.

This might be of interest - for example - for those interested
in ensuring they eat a genuinely diverse diet.

Excellent: thank you very much. One of the things I dealt with when
working in world development education was that Ethiopians used a
vastly greater range of food plants than we typically do in Europe and
America. Your list narrows the gap a bit.

Mike.