Otto,
funny you should mention plants. I found this yesterday. Currently the
characters are gifs but this could be a good unicode page.
http://rimmo.mur.csu.edu.au/Plantnames/Sorting/Citrus.html
Otto Stolz wrote:
>
> Tex Texin wrote:
>
> > For example, a database of customer names and addresses
>
> > would be something most businesses require.
> > So I would like to build a list of celebrity names, each
>
> > in their native language.
> ...
> > (I am open to suggestions for a better demo.)
>
> As celebrity may turn out as being short-lived, on occasions,
> two other possible realms came to my mind:
> - Birds
> - Plants
>
> If enough readers of the Unicode list deem either of these suggestions
> a worthwile demo, I'd be willing to collect the examples and put them
> in the web. Submissions should comprise:
> - category {bird|plant},
> - language (in English),
> - popular/recognized name in national spelling,
> - scientific name (in Latin),
> - reference (URL of description, preferably comprising a picture).
>
> Example:
> Plant
> German
> Mädesüß
> Filipendula ulmaria L.
> http://www.internetzentrale.com/Heilpflanzen/Madesuss/madesuss.html
>
> Example:
> Bird
> German
> Höckerschwan
> Cygnus olor
> http://zoologie.forst.tu-muenchen.de/HEITLAND/BSWT
> /AVES/ANSERIFORMES/CYGNIDAE/CYGNUS/cygnus.olor_01.html
>
> Best wishes,
> Otto Stolz
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