eHerbarium

About eHerbarium

A digital platform to explore and share plant images and biodiversity worldwide for botany lovers and plant enthusiasts.

eHerbarium leverages cutting-edge mobile, cloud, and AI technologies alongside traditional plant taxonomy and herbarium insights to revolutionize how we explore, document, learn and share information about plants. As the cornerstone of Earth’s ecosystems, plants provide essential oxygen, food, medicine, and beauty, enriching our lives and supporting all forms of life.

Herbarium plays an important role in plant identification, taxonomy and in understanding and preserving biodiversity. Within the last decade, there have been efforts to digitize the vast collection of herbarium in different institutions. Many of these digitized herbarium are available online through different portals. The examples of these portals include Kew Gardens and New York Botanic Garden Herbarium.

Curtesy of Kew’s Herbarium, Royal Botanical Garden (RBG), eHerbarium app makes a large collection of their herbarium data available on mobile devices, providing a dedicated system and a much more user-friendly interface to access herbarium data. With the mobile app, the herbarium information is more easily accessible by the professional botanists, researchers, students as well as general public, such as museum visitors or just anyone with a mobile device. It also provides an infrastructure that can potentially centralize the herbarium information from different organization.

In addition to herbarium, with the widespread use of digital technology, another form of abundantly available source of plant data is digital live plant images. These plant images, however, are not organized and/or classified in many situations. Moreover, there isn’t a dedicated, streamlined process for people such as professionals, amateur enthusiasts to share and make use of these images.

With the image uploading, identifying, licensing, sharing or purchasing features of eHerbarium app, it makes it easy to contribute to herbarium collection and live plant images collection. It provides a platform for global community of plant enthusiasts, students, educators, botanists, scientists, photographers, science photographers, amateur botany enthusiasts, or gardeners around the world to contribute, share and potentially monetize their images.

Why eHerbarium?

* Explore a vast collection of herbarium images from Kew’s Herbarium, the Royal Botanical Garden. Dive into the world of botany with high-quality visuals at your fingertips
* Effortlessly snap and share plant photos or herbarium images, or load images from your existing plant or herbarium collections. Customize with licenses for community use or download, enhancing the collaborative botanical exploration experience
* Unlock plant identification with our AI-powered tool
* Get autocomplete suggestions for taxonomy details like scientific names, common names, and families, making botanical data entry seamless and accurate
* Automatically pin image locations to level 2 regions as defined by TDWG, enriching botanical records with precise geographical data

Join eHerbarium to partake in a global mission to document, study, and celebrate the plants that make our world habitable. Whether you’re a seasoned botanist, naturalist, a student eager to learn, an avid gardener, or simply a nature lover, eHerbarium offers unparalleled resources for discovering, appreciating and contributing to the knowledge of the plant kingdom.

Please check out youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAuT2sSHviA for a quick overview of the app's functionalities and work flow.

For additional information, please visit www.eherbarium.org.

This app is protected by U.S. Patent Pending status. Unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of its features and functionalities may be subject to legal action.

International patent protection pending under a PCT application. Unauthorized use may lead to legal action globally.