RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum and/or Huntington

Dear David,

We do not have either plant listed in our inventory.  At one time the
Arboretum did have the plant database available on our Web page
(www.arboretum.org).  I have been told that it became a shopping list for
people who liked unusual plants at no cost and so it was removed.  It may be
that other gardens have had the same experience and are reluctant to make
the information so easily available.  I know of libraries that restrict the
publication of information on their rarer books for basically the same
reason.  Too bad.

If you want to know about other plants, please let me know.

Joan


-----Original Message-----
From: david feix [d*@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:30 PM
To: joan.defato@arboretum.org
Cc: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum
and/or Huntington


Dear Joan,

Since you seem to be able to find anything on the web,
I thought I would ask you if either the LA County
Arboretum, The Huntington Botanic Garden, Quail
Botanic Gardens have searchable data bases on line of
all plants in their collections which can be looked at
by the general public?  I have yet to find the
equivalent for the local Strybing, UC Berkeley and UC
Santa Cruz Botanic Gardens.  (The one reference I have
of species being grown at Strybing is sadly out of
date, last revised in 1987).

The reason I ask, is I'd like to know if either
Xanthostemon chrysantus-Golden Penda, or The
Proteaceae Buckinghamia celsissima are being grown
down south?  Both come from the rainforest areas of
Queensland, Australia, and I recently received fresh
seed of both.  I tried doing a google search for each
focusing on those being grown in the USA, and only
turned up one reference for a nursery in Homestead,
Florida.  They both look to be beautiful trees that
might also do well in California, but I haven't been
able to turn up any local information on them.
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