About 23 million dried plants, fungi and algae are safely stored in more than 70 German herbaria. One million of them can be explored now in the German Virtual Herbarium. More than 300,000 of the records come with at least one digital image. The specimens can be viewed as a list, map or in a gallery and can be filtered by a multitude of search criteria (more on the features can be found in this news item).

The Virtual Herbarium Germany is curated by the Botanic Garden Berlin of Freie Universität Berlin (contact), which also developed the software for the portal together with the international open data platform Global Biodiversity Information Facility.