African Violets and Gesneriads: African Violet criteria for Plant Files, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
I was looking at PF this afternoon, and it occurred to me that we could use some additional criteria for the AV descriptions. There's already a field for entering the name of the hybridizer and the date of registration. The most obvious thing missing was size classification (standard, semi-mini, miniature), but it might also be useful to be able to search for information on color, foliage, etc.

I thought before we all started really trying to beef up the AV section, we'd better figure out what else should be there.

I wrote to Terry, who said that we could add checkboxes for standard AVSA information. She suggested perhaps an application form for registering a name might be useful for the purpose of figuring out just what terms to add. Anyone have one of those handy?

What would you like to see added to PlantFiles AV pages?

I don't really want to try to upload all the information for all the varieties in First Class, but I'd be willing to enter some info for the varieties I have, along with whatever photos I have.

Do you think we need checkboxes for all possible blossom and foliage forms/colors? Or just a few? Or should we leave that sort of description as something that can be added as a "note" to the entry?

Let's do some brainstorming! Just remember that there will be a limit at some point to the number of checkboxes / criteria that can be added before the page becomes less helpful rather than more.