Wild Plants of Sydney 
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Pictures
There are more photographs and there is a more extensive coverage of Sydney-area plant species in this package than in any other Sydney-based publication. For some of the plant species there are no other published photographs.

The databases have colour photographs of about 65% of the species.

There are usually several photographs for a species showing flowers, fruit, leaves, bark and so on.

In total there are over 9,000 photographs of about 2600 species.

Descriptions
For each species a simple and concise description has been prepared. As much as possible non-technical language has been used in these descriptions but when this is not practical an on-line glossary is included which can be accessed by simply highlighting the word then clicking the right mouse-button.

The descriptions contain information on the general appearance, flowers (or spores if a fern), fruit, leaves and (often) its preferred environment. Other pieces of information include flowering time, place of origin and weed status (if the species is not native), conservation status, other names it has been known by, trees it is commonly associated with.

Maps
The basic maps are simple outlines of south-eastern Australia, with the distribution of the selected species superimposed as a series grids with dimensions of 1 minute longitude and 1 minutes latitude (about 1.5 x 1.8 km). 

The Combination
All three are combined to provide the user with a single page layout which summarises the species appearance, conservation status, biogeography and ecology.  The example below show typical examples for an orchid, a rare eucalypt and a declared noxious weed.

 
Glossodia major 
Eucalyptus camfieldii 
Ageratina adenophora