Virtual herbarium

A Virtual Herbarium is a herbarium in digitized form. This means it is a collection of digital images dried and pressed plants or plant parts. In many virtual herbaria are created to be on the Internet available to a broad audience. On the other hand, there are also digital herbaria, due to high-resolution scans with file sizes of several hundred megabytes are not suited to it. As in a conventional herbarium should be provided with additional information, such as locality, collector and correct botanical name here each individual sample. Often, additional information on related plant species and location requirements are made ​​.