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Ancient Web: The Orchid Encyclopedia Grew to More Than 26,000 Species

The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia is a sprawling independently maintained reference with more than 26,000 orchid species, photographs, drawings, synonyms and linked botanical references.

Ancient Web: Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Index 10,000 Spice Names in Dozens of Languages

Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages document 117 spice plants with culinary use, history, chemistry, etymology, photographs, geography, botany, and more than 10,000 names across dozens of languages.

Ancient Web: Foraging Pictures Indexed 1,581 Photos From New York Wild-Food Walks

ForagingPictures.com organizes 1,581 photographs of 237 plants and mushrooms from 30 New York-area wild-food tours, with seasonal tour indexes, location tables, plant counts, and edible, medicinal, poisonous, and mushroom categories.

Ancient Web: Seed Biology Built a Specialist Research Shelf for Germination

SeedBiology.de functions as a specialist academic shelf for research on seed germination, dormancy, physiology, and plant-development questions, preserving papers and scientific material outside the usual journal-search workflow.

Ancient Web: Wildflowers and Weeds Teaches Botany by Patterns

Thomas J. Elpel's Wildflowers and Weeds site has been publishing plant-identification material since the 1990s, teaching readers to recognize botanical families through recurring patterns instead of memorizing thousands of isolated species.

Ancient Web: Adam Schneider Turned Wildflower Photos Into a Searchable Field Archive

Adam Schneider's personal photo site organizes years of wildflower photography by trip, date, location, species, and searchable text instead of throwing the collection into a social feed.

Ancient Web: A 2004 Monk Fruit Page Became a Citation That Wouldn't Die

Subhuti Dharmananda's old ITM Online article on luo han guo became the kind of plain web reference that kept turning up years later in papers, reviews, and regulatory material about monk fruit.

Ancient Web: British Wild Flowers Built a Crowdsourced Photo Catalog Before Apps

British-Wild-Flowers.co.uk began in 2003 and grew into a collaborative photographic reference covering more than 2,000 plant species across Britain and Ireland.

Ancient Web: MissouriPlants.com Built a Field Guide for Wild Plants

MissouriPlants.com organizes the state's wild vascular flora by flower color, leaf arrangement, family and scientific name, with photographs, conservation values and identification notes aimed at non-specialists.

Ancient Web: Ways of Enlichenment Built an 11,593-Image Lichen Reference

Ways of Enlichenment combines lichen philosophy, identification tools and a photogallery containing 11,593 vetted images representing 2,183 species across western North America.

Ancient Web: UW-Madison's Virtual Foliage Preserves a University Botany Image Library

UW-Madison's Virtual Foliage site preserves classroom botany collections assembled from faculty, student and donated slide archives, including Wisconsin trees, fungi and plant diversity material.