Amazon.com: Compleat Botanica: Software

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ORGANIZE your collection of plant related data and plant pictures using powerful database technology.
• Use your digital camera to develop your own online photo gallery. Organize your flower and plant pictures using proof sheets, thumbnail images, and report embedding.
• Cross reference your plant collection in multiple ways with custom categories.
• Search your data by phrases, words, or alphabetic strings.
• Set measurement units, temperature scales, and date formats to match your local conventions.
• Ensure accurate naming with the botanical name spell-checker and the extensive dictionary of plant names.
• Be professional with the assurance that proper International Association of Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) naming rules are used wherever botanical names appear.

DISCOVER the hidden similarities between plants with a new approach to sorting and filtering that uses simple point-and-click query construction.
• See subsets of your data with easy to use filters – even database novices can create sophisticated filtering queries using the point-and-click interface.
• Use iconic data and color coded categories to replace abbreviations.
• Use common color names or Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) color chart numbers to describe plant parts with the precision you need.
• Enter rich-text notes to capture all of the diversity and special exceptions that you’re likely to encounter on real projects.
• Use the seasonal calendar of interest for an at-a-glance view of blooming, planting, harvesting, pollen producing, and special interest seasons.

PUBLISH your collection to the Web using the built-in templates and style sheets – print indexes, table of contents, abstracts, trailside markers, tags, and nursery placards.
• Select from professional report style templates to create listings that make your collection attractive and readable.
• Eliminate the guesswork of report layout and design with the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) report previewer.
• Publish your data with HTML templates and CSS style sheets to create an instant Web presence for your business.
• Label your garden plants with custom formatted specimen tags.
• Turn your collection into an instant botanical garden with automatically supplied family names for all new database entries.

RESEARCH taxonomic groupings, plant uses, botanical names and common names; use the software’s Internet gateway to expand your research even further.
• Connect to online databases and see up-to-date Web pages from within the software’s built-in Web browser.
• Lookup botanical names using partial spellings when the true botanical name is unknown.
• Use common plant names as a starting point to find the true botanical name equivalent. Discover the beauty in such evocative names as love-bind, love-in-a-mist, love-lies-bleeding, and Shakespeare’s love-in-idleness.
• See the full botanical name hierarchy spanning 26 taxonomic ranks from kingdom to variety.

COLLABORATE with other plant enthusiasts using the import/export facilities to share data with other popular software.
• Share data between applications via HTML, XML or delimited files with the import and export tools.
• Partition your data into different projects with fully supported multiple databases.

Columns to describe your data:
75 Columns using custom categories
31 Free form text entry columns
25 Special purpose check boxes

10 Precise measurement columns
6 Color description columns
5 Seasonal interest calendar columns
5 Word processing-like columns
2 Digital photograph columns

Color systems:
884 Royal Horticultural Society numbers
164 Popular color names

Pathfinder documentation:
601 Indexed online help pages

Plant dictionary:
110,951 Botanical name entries
38,065 Vernacular name entries
26 Taxonomic ranks

Samples:
4,995 Sample specimen entries
96 Sample plant photographs

Starter kit:
1,967 Pre-defined category items
166 HTML publication templates
98 Web publishing CSS styles
26 Pre-defined report styles
24 Pre-defined filters and lists
6 Web gateway templates

Designed for:
• Plant enthusiasts: flower gardeners, garden clubs, indoor plant collectors, photographers, plant societies, vegetable gardeners.
• Commercial use: arborists, farmer’s markets, florists, herbalists, horticulturists, landscapers, nurseries.
• Plant professionals: arboreta, botanical gardens, botanists, conservators, ecologists, herbariums, restoration developers, taxonomists, wetland managers.

Bella Online, January 2004,
Their website offers lots of support, help, tutorials, and information on using the software. A gardener couldn't ask for more.

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