Why no one hears
much from me
Many people may already know
that I do volunteer webwork
for the Cactus Conservation Institute website.
An exciting project I have been working on for the past two
years or so is the creation of an
illustrated overview of those plants which are associated with Astrophytum
asterias and
the Lophophora species.
The project has already
exceeded 450 MB and its final size is
unclear.
It presently includes more than 2600 images featuring over 100
cacti and 170 additional plant species -- and it is still growing.
A huge and daunting
task has been species recognition and
name
assignments. If you have familiarity with the flora of South Texas,
Tamaulipan
Thornscrub and the Chihuahuan Desert and are willing to help please
feel free to give feedback on name corrections or offer your opinion on
the unknowns. During the creation and editing process, all corrections
and other help will be acknowledged on the pages where the edits
occurred and once completed all who helped will be listed as coauthors
of this web project. I also welcome any suggestions on design, data
accessibility and
organization.
In some cases I have
included cultivated plants as placemarkers for known companions but our
goal is to include in habitat images for all plants listed.
We welcome any images that you want to contribute to this public
information database.
Please note that this is a temporary location
during the editing process so all links which connect to other pages
within the Cactus Conservation website itself are presently
nonfunctional. Once it has been completed this project will appear on
the CCI website rather than here.
I hope that you enjoy
it.
pachanot
@
gmail.
com
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