This website provides information and education on the important plants of the Amazon Rainforest. Each plant file contains taxonomy data, phytochemical and ethnobotanical data, uses in traditional medicine, and clinical research (including clinical abstracts). The database is accessible by the plant's common name, botanical name, disorder/action, properties and actions, or recorded ethnobotany uses.

The National Tropical Botanical Garden is dedicated to the conservation of tropical plant diversity, particularly rare and endangered species. Medicine, food, shelter - the potential uses of many plant species are not known. Yet they are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. Located in the only tropical and sub-tropical regions in the United States, the gardens and preserves of the NTBG are ...

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