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Plant Collections

Botantists at the National Museum of Natural History work to discover the diversity of plant life in the water and on the land and understand the evolutionary origin of this diversity. The plant collections of the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany are among the most important worldwide. This vast and intensely managed collection of over 5 million specimens represents a premier national and international resource. Here you can explore and download free to use plant images from the museum. Horticulturalists at Smithsonian Gardens maintain living plant collections with thousands of unique items, including thousands of orchids.


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Wulffia baccata (L. f.) Kuntze

Heisteria scandens Ducke

Telitoxicum sp.

Machaerium kegelii Meisn.

Gurania eriantha (Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn.

Clitoria pozuzoensis J.F. Macbr.

Paullinia serjaniifolia Triana & Planch.

Paullinia gigantea Poepp. & Endl.

Paullinia spicata Benth.

Gurania lobata (L.) Pruski

Paullinia alsmithii J.F. Macbr.

Gurania lobata (L.) Pruski

Paullinia fimbriata Radlk.

Forsteronia amblybasis S.F. Blake

Paullinia eriocarpa Triana & Planch.

Paullinia alata subsp. loretana (J.F. Macbr.) D.R. Simpson

Paullinia caloptera Radlk.

Bignonia aequinoctialis L.

Dicranostyles holostyla Ducke

Mascagnia divaricata (Kunth) Nied.

Marcgravia crenata Poepp. ex Wittm.

Dicranostyles sericea Gleason

Tetrapterys discolor (G. Mey.) DC.

Moutabea longifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Laubertia boissieri A. DC.

Gnetum nodiflorum Brongn.

Clusia hammeliana Pipoly

Paullinia paullinioides Radlk.

Juanulloa ochracea Cuatrec.

Paullinia paullinioides Radlk.

Tontelea fuliginea Lombardi

Manihot brachyloba Müll. Arg.

Indet. sp.

Dolichandra steyermarkii (Sandwith) L.G. Lohmann

Aegiphila sp.


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