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• Photos associated with FloraFinder.org, most of which were taken by Thomas Kent, are copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Under the terms of this license, you can freely use or adapt the photos for other uses provided that you attribute the images to the photographer (copyright holder), and that you use the work for noncommerical purposes, and that if you alter or transform the work, you make the resulting work available under the same or similar license to this one.

   

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