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Pl@ntUse

PlantUse is a portal on useful plants and plant uses.

Initiated by ethnobotanist Michel Chauvet at the end of his career at the AMAP laboratory in Montpellier as part of the Pl@ntNet project.

This platform is hosted by the BioWikifarm consortium, and supported by MediaWiki technology.

Pl@ntUse is a collaborative space for exchanging information on useful plants and plant uses. It does not aim to duplicate existing encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), but to offer complementary functions, such as:

  • uploading resources that you can reuse

  • portal to relevant resources existing on the Internet

  • thematic or bibliographic introduction to any topic of interest

  • species lists (dried vegetables grown in France, cereals of the world…)

  • common names or vernacular names

  • Etymological dictionary of plant names

  • galleries of portraits of cultivars (varieties)

  • old books and articles on useful plants

  • original publications

  • iconography

  • Q&A space

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