One may call this my "blog" but I have never liked this word. My activities on the WWW started in 1995 and have all along been focused on the discovery, the classification, and the naming of useful plants in 70 languages. I have published the resulting material on line ever since. Many "bloggers" will know me as the guy behind the now well known M.M.P.N.D. because they quote me often enough. Many scientists and plant enthusiasts also are very familiar with my work. It is rewarding to know that one is working for others with similar interests. This has increased greatly lately when I joined flickr. A pretty well organized community of people getting together via photography. Its combined potential with the work going on at the M.M.P.N.D. is mind blowing.

 The base server of the M.M.P.N.D. is experiencing difficulties lately due to excessive popularity (well past 1 000 000 hits per week - potential advertisers please stand by). Presently, following technical fiddling, the diacritics (accented letters) in foreign names do not always get displayed.  In order to see all letters displayed correctly, it is simply a matter of changing the "character encoding" of your browser to "Western Window" or "Western ISO..." . This is nobody's fault simply those problematic files were constructed in a "Window" platform at a time when UNICODE was not fully developed, and have become incompatible with the new server. It may take some time before we can rectify this. Alternatively some mirror sites will display those files without problem: < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Sorting/List_bot.html > or < http://www.ars-grin.gov/misc/mmpnd/List_bot.html >.  Another weight that we have to pull  for a while are those names in Gif's form. They were vital in the 1990's in order to get the site going and will always display well but we are gradually phasing them out using Unicode fonts instead. Burmese, Sinhalese and a few other languages from India are still not fully developed though, so we are not that far behind in adapting to modern IT gadgetry.

  Here are some sites holding my material that work well.


Nomenclatural pages

Here is what I am trying to achieve and preserve in terms of nomenclature. Here is another better - great actually, more recent effort, still being polished here: < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Sorting/Conifers-intro.html > . 



Horticultural images




Horticultural pages

This is an example of horticultural note  related to the nomenclatural work, and another here in the outreach category < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Sorting/CATALOGUE/EGGPLANTS-intro.html >.

We welcome any comment, criticism, suggestion.