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 USEFUL WEBSITES

Don Herbison-Evans's excellent series of linked websites on Australian Moths, Butterflies, Caterpillars and Plants

Australian National Botanic Gardens

 http://www.anbg.gov.au/

Sydney Botanic Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

http://www.kew.org/

James Cook University, Townsville - Discover Nature

http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/discovernature/

 Australian Native Plants Society

http://asgap.org.au/sgap1a.html

The Society for Growing Australian Plants (Townsville Branch)

Graeme Cocks' Plants of Townsville

VIRTUAL HERBARIA

Over the last few years, several online resources have been developed for examining the herbarium sheets of many herbaria, both in Australia and overseas.

Australia’s Virtual Herbarium

http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/avh/avh.html or http://avh.chah.org.au/

Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne    

 http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/information-and-resources/searchable-resources

NSW Flora Online

 http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/

Charles Sturt University

http://www.csu.edu.au/herbarium

A useful American site is the Virtual Herbarium, a text and photographic database of the specimens in the Fairchild Tropical Garden Herbarium, with links to many other herbaria worldwide:

http://www.virtualherbarium.org/

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has a virtual herbarium covering the UK’s Overseas Territories:

Another interesting site being developed is the Virtual Botanic Garden:

http://www.virboga.de/

BOOKS & eBOOKS
Grass Genera in Townsville, by Nanette B. Hooker

Published by James Cook University 2012

 Plants of Magnetic Island, 3rd edition, by Betsy R. Jackes

ISBN 0 9589942978 0 9808183 8 3

Published by James Cook University

Grasses of James Cook University, Townsville Campus, by N.B. Hooker and B.R. Jackes

ISBN 9780980558616 (pdf)

Published by James Cook University

Free download Part A http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/2103/

                     Part B http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/2104/

Various Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry

These are excellent little books, some of them on local species.

Free download at http://www.traditionaltree.org/

Native Plants of Queensland, by Keith A.W. Williams, in 4 volumes

ISBN 0 9595570 0 8

ISBN 0 9595570 1 6

ISBN 0 9595570 2 4

ISBN 1 875401 79 2

The first 3 volumes of these excellent books were published by Keith Williams himself. They are now out of print, and are very difficult (but not impossible) to find, except in good libraries. Volume 4 was published by CopyRight Publishing Co. Pty Ltd, GPO Box 2927, Brisbane 4001, and is still fairly easily obtainable.

Tropical Plants of the World, by Jens G. Rohwer

 ISBN 0 8069 8387 6

Published by Sterling Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Coastal Plants of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

ISBN 0 9758460 6 X

Published by Burdekin Dry Tropics

Bush Friendly Plants of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

ISBN 978 1 921584 23 7

Published by NQ Dry Tropics

Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland, by Catherine Lovelock

ISBN 0 642 18502 6

Published by the Australian Institute of Marine Science

The Burdekin Delta Tree Guide, by Greg Calvert

ISBN 978 0 646 52622 5

Published by Lower Burdekin Landcare Association Inc.

Plants of the Tropics, by Betsy R. Jackes

ISBN 0 86443 685 8

Published by James Cook University

 Growing Australian Tropical Plants, by Peter & Ann Radke, Garry & Nada Sankowsky

ISBN 0 9589942 9 3

Published by Frith & Frith Books

 Rare and Threatened Plants of the Townsville Thuringowa Region, by Greg Calvert, Con Lokkers and Russell Cumming

ISBN 978 0 975773000

Published by Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare

BIRDS
Birds in Backyards

Graeme Chapman

http://www.graemechapman.com.au/index.php

 GARDENING BLOGS

Christine Ashe's blog at  

http://christmashills.blogspot.com.au/