Data and licensing

Where the records came from

Practical Plants was launched in 2011 as a community-edited wiki to build a globally relevant permaculture plant database, starting from the Plants For A Future database compiled by Ken Fern and Plants For A Future (PFAF).

A server failure led to the site to be restored as a read-only version in 2022, with some data unrecoverable. The current edition uses a July 2012 MediaWiki database backup and pages recovered through the Internet Archive. We converted wiki text and saved HTML into structured records, restored missing fields where the evidence supported it, and normalized names and citation links. Recovery records retain source revisions and field-level evidence.

Reusing text and data

The archived Practical Plants copyright notice identifies CC BY-SA 3.0 as the default for wiki contributions and identifies some material as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. The five restored general articles use the original SQL edition, whose wiki configuration declared CC BY-SA 3.0.

Plants For A Future notes

PFAF documented CC BY-NC-SA 1.0 for its historical Plant Species Database CD-ROM. In the archived wiki, some plant notes carry a PFAF Non-Commercial label. The recovered records do not identify the PFAF edition or license for each imported passage. Plant pages identify sections where marked text still matches the published notes. Check the terms for the specific material before reusing it and contact the rights holder when the terms are unclear. The current PFAF website has its own copyright terms.

When reusing licensed material, credit the named contributors and source, retain the applicable license and source links, and indicate your changes. Observe the terms for noncommercial use and sharing adaptations where they apply.

• Archived Practical Plants copyright notice
• Archived Practical Plants account of the PFAF fork
• PFAF Plant Species Database CD-ROM terms
• Current PFAF website copyright notice

Images

Each published image has its own credit, source and license. See themedia and licensing inventory for the approved images and details of recovered originals, replacements and resized versions.

Corrections and contributions

Use Edit this page at the end of a plant or article to propose a correction on GitHub. Include the plant or article name, a source for the change, and its reuse terms if you are contributing text or media from elsewhere. You can alsoreport an error on GitHub. See the contribution guidefor details.