BOTANICAL SOURCING RESOURCES
Historical specimens, huge international database, and information:
- Kew gardens economic botany collection (https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection)
- To search the collection: http://apps.kew.org/ecbot/search?_ga=2.177003941.16365810.1517416874-1376709094.1517416874
Informational and general
- Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org/) which has good (although not always historically accurate) distribution maps as well as general info
- Tropicos (http://www.tropicos.org/) which I just discovered is a database from the Missouri Botanic Garden! Small botany world...
- Not sure how helpful: Electronic version of "A Modern Herbal" by Maud Grieve, originally published in 1931 (http://botanical.com/ )
Local (NYC) sources
- Brooklyn Botanical Garden (https://www.bbg.org/) (https://www.bbg.org/collections/plant_collection)
- New York Botanical Garden (https://www.nybg.org/)
- Gardens at The Met Cloisters (https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2016/gardens-at-the-met-cloisters)
- Barnard College The Arthur Ross Greenhouse (https://biology.barnard.edu/greenhouse)
- Dutch Flower Line (212-727-8600)
- G. Page Wholesale (212-741-8928)
- Foliage Garden (212-989-3089)
- Jamali Garden (212-244-4025)
- San Gabriel Nursery (http://sgnurserynews.com/site/)
- Armstrong Garden Center (http://www.armstronggarden.com/)
Los Angeles sources
- Descanso Gardens (https://www.descansogardens.org/)
- Huntington Library and Gardens: Botanical Contacts.
- Call Louise Guerin or Kathy Musial.
- Los Angeles County Arboretum (http://www.arboretum.org/)
Other USA and international sources
- Kew gardens economic botany collection (https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection)
- To search the collection: http://apps.kew.org/ecbot/search?_ga=2.177003941.16365810.1517416874-1376709094.1517416874
- Missouri Botanical Garden (http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/)
- Botanical Garden Conservation International (https://www.bgci.org/plant_search.php)
- University of Bologna (http://www.unibo.it/en)
- Athens National Garden (http://www.zappeion.gr/en/en_tour_garden.asp)
