Sources and photo credits

Phool stands on the work of volunteers and botanists who document the world's flowers in the open.

Facts

Wikidata (public domain, CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Every flower, decoration and place page and every country overview links to the article and the record it was written from.

Wording and attribution

Phool does not copy text. Pages take their facts from the Wikipedia article named at the foot of each page and are rewritten in Phool's own words. A check compares each page with its source; any page that carries over more than a short phrase is rewritten before it is shown. Because the pages are adapted from Wikipedia, they credit the article and its contributors, link to the original, and are shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Photos

All photos come from Wikimedia Commons. Only freely licensed images are used: public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA. Each photo on a page is credited beside it with its author and licence and links to its page on Commons. Small pictures in lists, cards and strips are credited at the foot of the page they appear on, under "Photo credits on this page", with the author, the licence and a link to the source. Photos may be resized and cropped to fit; no other changes are made. If a photo is yours and should not be here, write to us and it will be taken down.

Drawn flowers

Where no free photo exists, the page shows a flower drawn by Phool from the page's name and colours. It is a placeholder, not a picture of the flower.

Good reading

The articles listed under "Good reading" are ones the Wikipedia article cites, from publishers such as the Royal Horticultural Society, Kew, Britannica, the BBC, The Hindu and Smithsonian Magazine. Plant pages also link to Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), GBIF and iNaturalist through the identifiers on the Wikidata record. Phool shows the title and the publisher and links to the original; it does not copy the article.

Traditions, experiences, the flower calendar, bloom months and the glossary

Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Traditions list their sources. Festival dates are worked out by rule (fixed dates, Easter, and the Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese and Persian calendars); days set by other lunisolar calendars and events whose dates are announced each year use published dates, or are marked "around". Bloom months are typical and move with latitude, altitude and the weather.

National flowers

Compiled by the Phool desk. Where a flower is recognised by custom and not by law it is marked unofficial.

Map

Country outlines are from Natural Earth (public domain).

News

The news wire shows only a headline and the outlet's name. Every link leads to the original publisher.

Typefaces

Newsreader and Instrument Sans, both under the SIL Open Font License.

If something is wrong

Write to phool@cleartrust.cc and it will be fixed quickly.