A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbarium
The Royal Horticultural Society in London, UK
https://collections.rhs.org.uk/
Emily Dickinson Herbarium at Harvard
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$1i
The largest herbaria in the world (list from Wikipedia), in approximate order of decreasing size, are:
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P) (Paris, France)
- New York Botanical Garden (NY) (Bronx, New York, US)
- Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Royal Botanic Gardens (K) (Kew, England, UK)
- Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) (St. Louis, Missouri, US)
- Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G) (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland) (AMD, L, U, WAG) (Leiden, Netherlands)
- The Natural History Museum (BM) (London, England, UK)
- Harvard University (HUH) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)
- Museum of Natural History of Vienna (W) (Vienna, Austria)
- Swedish Museum of Natural History (S) (Stockholm, Sweden)
- United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) (US) (Washington, DC, US)
- Université Montpellier (MPU) (Montpellier, France)
- Université Claude Bernard (LY) (Villeurbanne, France)
- Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae (FI) (Florence, Italy)
- National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR) (Meise, Belgium)
- University of Helsinki (H) (Helsinki, Finland)
- Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin (B) (Berlin, Germany)
- The Field Museum (F) (Chicago, Illinois, US)
- University of Copenhagen (C) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Chinese National Herbarium, (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (PE) (Beijing, People's Republic of China)
- University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) (Berkeley, California, US)
- Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E) (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia)
- Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (Central National Herbarium (CAL), Howrah, India)
- Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG) (Hamburg, Germany)
This is mind blowing. The New York Botanical Gardens has a map of all known herbariums
Society of Herbarium Curators
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