Plants For A Future

Plants For A Future, a small environmental group run entirely by volunteers, was established in 1989 when a 28 acre piece of land in Cornwall was purchased as a place to demonstrate the many uses of plants with a very strong emphasis on perennial species.

Useful Plants Databases

We now have information on more than 11,700 useful species in the tropical database,
and it is still growing. All the information is made freely available.

You can also visit our temperate plants database, which is in the process of
being updated.

The Useful Tropical Plants Database contains information on the edible, medicinal and many other uses of several thousand plants that can be grown in tropical regions.

It is very much a work in progress, with new records being entered and older records being updated on a regular basis.

The database currently lists 11724 species.

The Useful Temperate Plants Database contains information on the edible, medicinal and many other uses of several thousand plants that can be grown in temperate regions.

It is very much a work in progress, with new records being entered and older records being updated on a regular basis.

The database currently lists 8152 species.