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This: https://github.com/treflehq/trefle-api/blob/master/db/botanic_seeds.rb https://github.com/treflehq/trefle-api/blob/master/db/botani... ?

• iudqnolq 6y ago
  That's tiny. There are around 390,000 plants in the world. That file contains more than just plants, and has less than 2,000 entries. 1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36230858 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36230858
  • mellosouls 6y ago
    According to the blurb they have 1 million indexed.
    • MattBlissett 6y ago
      There are around a million names for plants, but due to changing scientific hypotheses, limitations of science and communication centuries ago, new technologies (DNA sequencing etc) and so on, over 600,000 of those names are synonyms for other plants. I was going to give the synonyms for Solanum tuberosum L., the potato, but it has tens (maybe hundreds) of them. Look at the bottom of the infobox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
      • Cyphase 6y ago
        There are 359 synonyms listed in the infobox.
  • MattBlissett 6y ago
    The API example[1] gives several sources: USDA.gov, CATMINAT, PlantNet, GBIF, RBG Kew. There might be other sources, but I don't know about all of these in detail, so I'm not sure. Several of those sources have their own APIs, I think this service's offering is joining everything together. [1] https://docs.trefle.io/reference https://docs.trefle.io/reference