About
Every documented plant has its own page, reached from a tag on the plant itself. The information stays with the living specimen rather than sitting in a filing cabinet, and it can be corrected as the campus changes.
Not every plant has every field filled in, but this is what a complete entry carries.
The campus is surveyed area by area. Each plant is recorded against the place it actually stands, so the same species can appear in more than one area.
| Area | Records |
|---|---|
| Vegetable Garden | 19 |
| 2 Wheeler parking | 17 |
| Botanical Garden | 17 |
| Main Gate & Parking | 13 |
| Other Plants | 12 |
| Administrative Block 1 | 11 |
| Boys Hostel | 11 |
| Butterfly Garden | 11 |
| Basketball | 8 |
| Civil New Block | 8 |
| Amphitheatre | 5 |
| Footpath | 4 |
The register spans 59 plant families. These are the 10 best represented; most of the rest appear once or twice.
The survey was carried out on campus, area by area, and the descriptions were written up from those observations. Identifications follow accepted botanical names, with synonyms recorded where a species is widely known under an older name.
Corrections are welcome. If a plant is misidentified, missing, or has been removed from campus, we would rather hear about it than have the register quietly drift out of date.
The plant records, photographs and identifications are provided and maintained by the Ecovex Club at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru.
The website itself was built by The Sceptix Club, The Free and Open Source Club of SJEC.
| Chapel | 4 |
| Cafeteria | 4 |
| Mechanical Block | 3 |