Sad to say, I forgot to include the URL, without which the announcement is not much
value. Here it is:
http://bomi.ou.edu/plants/
....sorry about that. -S
Scott Russell wrote:
> Hi all!
>> This is just a note to those who may be interested in Cal's Plant-of-the-Week
> site, which has been running at the University of Oklahoma for ~100 weeks, since
> October 9, 1998. Cal is our local greenhouse grower with a particular talent
> for growing plants and experience in both academic and commercial plant growth
> facilities. Every week he features a plant that we have flowering in the
> greenhouses here at OU and gives tips on growing it.
>> This 100th plant listing means that we have tips and illustrations online
> concerning about one-third of the species in our collection now. But don't
> worry that we are running out ... species here are constantly changing. Since
> the greenhouses are fifty years old, the heating and cooling frequently fail and
> whenever this happens, old plant species are replaced, as needed, by new.
> Fortunately we are able to keep most of the species in culture. These plants
> form a good teaching collection for general botany, ecology, systematics,
> propagation, economic botany and structural botany.
>> I am also posting the information about this site on usenet because Yahoo! and
> other indexing services have not accepted my request for a listing, and I doubt
> that many people outside of OU are aware of the existence of this site. Thanks
> for your time and I hope that you have a chance to visit. -Scott Russell
