Australian Plant Image Index

Brief description

The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) has for many years been building up a collection of photographs and illustrations of Australia's native plants. Originally these were photos taken on field collecting trips to supplement the herbarium specimens and data associated with the living plants. The collection attempts to have photos linked to herbarium voucher specimens lodged within one of the major herbaria in Australia. In recent years many other photographers have contributed to the APII with the identification of the plants based on in-situ plant identification in botanic gardens, identification keys, or consulting experts in the area. There over 28,000 Australian plant photos from APII that were either born-digital or have been digitised from slides. There are over 48,000 plant photos held in the APII collection, including those still in slide form and not yet digitised. Searches can be made for all records, with those that are digitised being displayed as thumbnails. Historic photos of the ANBG, other Botanic Gardens, National Parks, landscapes, animals are also held in the collection. APII is based on an Oracle database backend.