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Orchid search engine
On Dec 27, 8:25*am, packat wrote:
Hello, I am a computer scientist who has a deep passion for orchids. *My parents grew several orchids where I grew up (Thailand), way back in the 60's. * Our fence at the front part of the property lined with 8-9 feet long poles covered with coconut husk and grew Vanda on them. They are very common in Thailand. *I don't know what species, but the plants grew as tall as the poles and flowered profusely. *The leaves were thin about 10 cm long with round cross section. *We had several other kinds of orchids too, mostly natives of Thailand. I now live in Maryland near DC. *I have spent fortune over the years trying to grow several orchids I bought from local nurseries and internet. *But I wasn't successful. *They all eventually died. *But even with all these failed attempt, my love for orchids has never faded. I decided to turn to studying them instead of growing them. My new goal is to build a web-site that I (or any site visitors) to search the database that stores taxonomy and various characteristics of each species. * For instance, people could request: "find all orchids with red lip, yellow petals, 2-3 cm in size,....." * etc. The response would be the list of species that match, or fuzzy match these characteristics. * I hope to also show pictures that I collected over the years from the internet. *Probably those that some of you took. *But I need to work out the intellectual property issue first before I can do that. My questions to the community a 1) Would this be useful to you? 2) Is there a website(s) that has comprehensive list of orchid taxonomy? *I have looked at several sites including wikipedia, which are very useful, but I haven't yet found an authoritative and comprehensive site. 3) *This is a stupid question: * I found several differentiations between sites on the species name: e.g. dayana vs dayanum, coccinea vs coccineum, aurea vs aureum,... and many more. *What is the standard practice when it comes to choosing which version to use? Thanks, pax Here are a few sites that are dedicated to Cattleya orchids and their relatives: a href="http://www.cattleyaorchidsource.com/"Cattleya Orchid Source/ a a href="http://cattleya.wikidot.com/"Cattleya Source Wiki/a I commend you on the undertaking. Good luck. John Denson - a href="http://cattleyasource.blogspot.com/"Cattleyas and More Blog/a |
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