Guides for Wildflowers and trees

["Roger Giller" <>]

Hi Gordon,

I have a CD-ROM titled "Coastal Plants of the Royal National Park", which I 
bought a couple of years ago, before the gift shop at Audley was closed. It 
was produced by the Sutherland Group, Australian Native Plants Society. It 
has over 300 species and although it covers a rather limited area and 
habitat I have found it quite useful as I spend a bit of time birding there. 
More to the point, it allows you to enter various characteristics, such as 
flower colour, number of petals, leaf shape etc. and gives you a "short 
list' of images. A bit like the identification facility on the Birds in 
Backyards site. I believe there is an opening here for potential authors to 
extend the concept to other areas and make them available as CD-ROM  and/or 
"Apps", which seem to be the way of the future. This was touched on in last 
weeks thread "iPhone App for Mammals".
Regards

Roger.