my son Tobias who programmed and constructed this website (incl. shop).

my son Sebastian for helping me with the issue of the general terms of business and for reading the proofs.


many thanks also to Mr. Heinz Jenuwein, who has always been willing to answer my questions concerning the culture of tropical/subtropical useful plants, resulting from his own experience over many years.

my special thanks are addressed to my dear friends Jean Jacques (La Réunion), Alison (Australia/Queensland) and Edilson (Brazil), for their continuously supplying me with photos.

also many thanks to Mark Stebbins, author of the book 'Flowering trees of Florida', for kindly placing many photos at my disposal.

many thanks to Fabrice le Bellec for the permission to use the photos of his book "Tropical Fruits - THE COMPENDIUM". (Grand merci, Fabrice!)

Thanks a lot to Professor Yoshiaki Yoneda for the possibility to expand my 'Impressions' by many photos of the family of Convolvulaceae!

my special thanks to Linda of Mercer Arboretum in Houston/Texas, who is sharing my passion for the ginger family and who gave the photos of her extensive collection at my disposal.

Yonkee Kim, Thailand Jim West, Ecuador Jörg Pein, Thailand Rosemary, Australia Werner Donath Markus Abel Mike, USA Victor, Canada Alan Bradshaw, USA Leo Michels, Germany George, Malaysia Daryl O'Connor, Australia Christian D., Brazil Junjie, Philippines Gerd Schrader, Spain Bob, Jamaica Kazuo Yamasaki, Japan Dr. Frieda Billiet, Belgium Ulrich Herzog, Deutschland Pietro Pavone, Italy Charles S. Lewallen, USA Hubertus Nimsch, Germany

Terry, New Zealand Kim Bridges, USA Charles T. DeFrance, USA Clément Duret, La Réunion Luis Bacher, Brazil Minguo Li, China William Tseng, Taiwan John Clinton, USA James Manhart, USA Ken Cook, USA Kenneth McClymont (BRAIN), Australia Andre Williams, Barbados Marcos Capelini, Brazil Maurizio Vecchia, Italy Robert Green, USA Dan Tenaglia, USA Rainer Oberle, Germany Frédéric Thournay, France Diethard H. Storch, Germany Paul, Papua-Newguinea Michael J. Schumacher, University of Arizona Dominique Vercammen, Belgium

Wendy Ronald, New Zealand Claude Francois, Mauritius Elena Montez, Venezuela Claire Legrand, Madagascar John Okuamba, Kenya Paul Kneebone, Great Britain Sherley R. Denton, USA John Richmond, Great Britain Michael, USA Gaby Schulemann, Germany Mirko, Costa Rica Albert Perdeck, USA Gene Joseph, USA Arne Larsen, Denmark Mark, Kenya Etienne, Belgium Wynn Anderson, USA Shigenobu AOKI, Japan Prof. C. Kameswara Rao, India Ralph Arvesen, USA Bill Eddie, USA / Great Britain Bernice Fischman, USA