NHM Collections: Botany Specimens

The Natural History Museum's Botany collections document plant diversity from around the world and provide an invaluable resource for scientific research and digital innovation.

This dataset contains digitised botanical specimen records with accompanying metadata, including taxonomic information, collection details and geographic provenance. Together these records provide a rich source of structured biodiversity knowledge spanning centuries of collecting activity.

The dataset can support AI training, biodiversity modelling, taxonomy, conservation research and environmental analysis. For organisations developing scientific, geospatial or multimodal AI capabilities, the collection offers highly structured and authoritative botanical data.

Data is supplied in Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) format.

Interested in exploring this collection further? Submit an enquiry to the Natural History Museum team to discuss your use case.