Permaflorae

Portable, powerful and user-friendly way to search and find plants — permaculture plant database

Portable executable

What: Executable, ~300 Mb. Can be copied on a USB key, burnt on a CD or just copied to a directory. No installation.
Who: Everyone with windows

Sources

What: Sources. Need a web- and database-server and manual installation on your computer.
Who: Everyone (but geek-skills needed), cross-platform

Features: More than 7000 plants for temperate climates*; Lots of details : dimensions and growth; soil, water and sun preferences; edible, medicinal and other uses; known hazards; propagation, cultivation and cultivar details ...*; Dynamic interface : automatic update of results, dynamic load of photos ...; Powerful search : keywords, plant filter, botanical synonyms, and on all other plant details; Partial support of non-metric units; Save & share : export results in PDF, XML and BBCode; Offline and portable : on USB key or DVD, to use it when it counts

* features from PFAF database.

Examples of queries: Evergreen shrubs that can be used for edge and that tolerates drought (38 results); Nitrogen-fixing trees that can grow in acid and heavy-clay soils (15 results); Mediterranean plants that tolerates strong winds (46 results); Plants that tolerate shade and with edible flowers (22 results); Substitutes for chocolate (8 results); Very palatable perennial of USDA hardines zone inferior to 6 (31 results); Self-fertile fruit tree species (49 results); Plants profile featuring "deer" word (603 results); … and much more !