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Contents:

     · Agave

       · Amaranth

         · Bamboo & rattan

           · Bananas

             · Bryophytes

               · Cacao & chocolate

                 · Cannabis

                   · Coffee

                     · Conifers

                            ~ Hemlock

                            ~ Torreya

                            ~ Whitebark pine

                       · Funghi & mushrooms

                         · Kelp

                           · Mangroves

                             · Oil palm tree & palm oil

                               · Palms

                                 · Soybean

                                   · Seaweed

                                     · Other

Also see:

     · Invasive taxa @ Invasive species

Agave

Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila @ UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Agave Research & Extension @ UC Davis

Agave restoration @ Bat Conservation International

Bat Friendly

Califoria Agave Council

Intro to mezcal @ National Geographic

Mezcal.org

     · Requires translation

Tequila and Mezcal - Statistics & Facts @ Statista

Taquila Interchange Project

Traditional Agave Spirits Advisors (TRAAS)


Amaranth

Amaranth Institute


Bamboo & rattan

International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)

     · To develop and promote innovative solutions to poverty and environmental sustainability using bamboo and rattan


Bananas

Banana Biotechnology @ Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy @ Queensland Univerisity of Technology

Global Alliance against T4

Panama disease @ Wikipedia


Bryophytes

Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria

     · “...gateway to plant biodiversity data for mosses, liverworts, and hornworts”


Cacao

Cocoa and Forests Initiative


Cannabis

Sustainable Cannabis Coalition


Coffee

Grounds for Change

Initiative for Coffee & Climate (C&C)

International Coffee Organization (ICO)

     International Coffee Day

Specialty Coffee Association

Sustainability @ Daily Coffee News

World Coffee Research


Conifers

American Conifer Society

     ConiferBase

Giant Sequoia Work Group

~ Hemlock ~

· Including hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae)

Hemlock Restoration Initiative

HWA @ Invasive.org

HWA @ USDA

HWA @ USFS

Save Georgia's Hemlocks

~ Torreya ~

Torreya Guardians

~ Whitebark pine ~

U.S. Forest Service Coeur d'Alene Nursery

Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation


Funghi & mushrooms

MushroomExpert.com

Mycology Collections Data Portal


Kelp

Kelp restoration @ CMSI


Mangroves

Mangrove @ Biology.online

Mangrove @ Wikipedia

What is a mangrove? @ Florida DEP

What is a mangrove forest? @ NOAA

What's a mangrove? @ AMNH

Global Mangrove Alliance

Global Nature Fund

     Mangrove rehabilitation in Asia

     Mangrove Protection in Sri Lanka and India

International Mangrove Center

Mangrove Action Project

Mangrove Projects @ Turing Foundation

Mangroves for the Future

Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project


Oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis) & palm oil

8 things to know about palm oil @ WWF

European Palm Oil Alliance

Palm Oil Analytics

Palm oil industry @ Liberty Shared

Palm Oil Investigations (POI)

Real story of palm @ Guardian

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

GreenPalm Sustainability

     · Although the website is still up, this seems to have been subsumed into the RSPO (see above).

Singapore Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil (SASPO)

SPOTT: Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit

Verité

     Palm oil

WWF Palm Oil Scorecard


Palms

     · A note about "palm trees": While a matter of semantics, palms are generally conidered to be a grass, not a tree

All about palm trees

Palmpedia


Seaweed

State of the World's Seaweeds


Soybean

United Soybean Board


Other

Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino [documentary]

     Wikipedia entry


Plant taxa, including cultivated & crop species, varieties & breeds