There’s a global online monograph of the genus Solanum called Solanaceae Source. Each species treatment includes illustrations, a clickable list of specimens, links to molecular data and a dot distribution map (which mashes herbarium specimen locality data with Google Maps), among other things. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds the project as part of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventories mission. Collaborators are eligible for small awards in support of their contributions to the completion of the worldwide Solanum monograph.
Wild food plants in Italy
I find it pretty amazing how much — and how many — wild plants are still used for food in many parts of Italy. That includes some pretty unusual things.
Baobab products galore
There’s a Baobab Fruit Company in Senegal. Via Timbuktu Chronicles.
Underused plants symposium
I’m not sure if we’ve already noted that there is an international symposium on “Underutilized plants for food, nutrition, income and sustainable development” in the offing. Anyway, it is scheduled for 3-7 March 2008 in Arusha, Tanzania, and the deadline for submission of abstracts has just been extended to 31 August.
LATER: Here’s more.
Growing tea herbs
Want to grow a tea-garden? My mother-in-law unavailable for comment.