Content Licensing

Edible Plant Database is a non-commercial, educational project that aggregates content from multiple open sources. This page explains what licenses apply to the content in this ZIM file and what that means if you want to redistribute or reuse it.

Plant data

The core plant data (scientific names, common names, edible parts, cultivation notes, distribution, and nutritional information) comes from the Food Plants International (FPI) database compiled by Bruce French. This data is used with the understanding that it is being made freely available for educational and non-commercial purposes. The original data remains the work of Food Plants International.

Plant descriptions

Supplementary plant descriptions are sourced from PFAF (Plants For A Future) and rewritten as original prose. Additional descriptions are sourced from Wikipedia and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Where Wikipedia text is used, it is attributed on the relevant plant page.

Photographs

The database contains approximately 27,918 plant photographs sourced from iNaturalist, GBIF, and Wikimedia Commons. All images marked "all rights reserved" are excluded. Every image is displayed with its license type and attribution.

Images are published under the following Creative Commons licenses: CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND.

Dangerous lookalikes

Dangerous lookalike information was curated by the Edible Plant Database team and is released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This ZIM file

The ZIM file as a whole is a compilation work. Redistribution is permitted for non-commercial and educational purposes, provided attribution is given to the respective sources above. Commercial use requires obtaining permission from the original data providers.