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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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Paullinia sp.

Adenocalymma schomburgkii (DC.) L.G. Lohmann

Strychnos sp.

Machaerium sp.

Strychnos sp.

Dichapetalum pedunculatum (DC.) Baill.

Gnetum nodiflorum Brongn.

Moutabea longifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Hiraea gracieana W.R. Anderson

Mabea taquari Aubl.

Mesechites trifidus (Jacq.) Müll. Arg.

Cynanchum blandum (Decne.) Sundell

Piptocarpha triflora (Aubl.) Benn. ex Baker

Tassadia berteroana (Spreng.) W.D. Stevens

Tontelea corymbosa (Huber) A.C. Sm.

Anomospermum steyermarkii Krukoff & Barneby

Tontelea glabra A.C. Sm.

Indet. sp.

Salacia sp.

Telitoxicum krukovii Moldenke

Securidaca paniculata Rich.

Odontadenia macrantha (Roem. & Schult.) Markgr.

Paullinia verrucosa Radlk.

Marcgravia magnibracteata Lanj. & Heerdt

Passiflora glandulosa Cav.

Coccoloba marginata Benth.

Paullinia latifolia Benth. ex Radlk.

Strychnos mitscherlichii M.R. Schomb. var. mitscherlichii

Marcgravia pedunculosa Triana & Planch.

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