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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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Indet. sp.

Annona hypoglauca Mart.

Duguetia quitarensis Benth.

Asarum canadense L.

Myristica sp.

Aristolochia trilobata L.

Annona haematantha Miq.

Iryanthera juruensis Warb.

Asarum canadense L.

Hexastylis virginica (L.) Small

Xylopia nitida Dunal

Asarum caudatum Lindl.

Hedyosmum arborescens Sw.

Piper nigrum L.

Manekia obtusa (Miq.) T. Arias et al.

Xylopia discreta (L. f.) Sprague & Hutch.

Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Piper sp.

Siparuna thecaphora (Poepp. & Endl.) A. DC.

Aristolochia sp.

Peperomia magnoliifolia (Jacq.) A. Dietr.

Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal

Piper sp.

Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson

Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson

Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson

Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson

Liriodendron tulipifera L.

Canella winterana (L.) Gaertn.

Annona mucosa Jacq.

Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume

Hedyosmum arborescens Sw.

Magnolia splendens Urb.


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