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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.


  • NMNH - Botany Dept. 497 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • South America - Neotropics 353 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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Cayaponia sp.

Indet. sp.

Talisia sp.

Indet. sp.

Paullinia sp.

Guatteria sp.

Serjania sp.

Heteropterys sp.

Schefflera vinosa (Cham. & Schltdl.) Frodin & Fiaschi

Fridericia craterophora (DC.) L.G. Lohmann

Doliocarpus dentatus (Aubl.) Standl.

Mabea fistulifera Mart.

Indet. sp.

Abuta sp.

Paullinia alata (Ruiz & Pav.) G. Don

Hippocratea sp.

Indet. sp.

Serjania sp.

Unonopsis sp.

Paullinia sp.

Combretum sp.

Entada sp.

Indet. sp.

Matayba marginata Radlk.

Piper sp.

Cayaponia sp.

Indet. sp.

Cupania vernalis Cambess.

Indet. sp.

Thinouia myriantha Triana & Planch.

Chondrodendron sp.

Indet. sp.

Solanum sp.

Paullinia latifolia Benth. ex Radlk.

Connarus sp.


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