Herbarium Tubingense

Plant collecting has a long history in Tübingen. Plant material from several centuries and from all over the world is stored in the Herbarium Tubingense, founded by Hugo v. Mohl (1805–1872) in 1837. Currently, there are about 500,000 plant specimens and botanical objects. In addition to flowering plants, these include fungi, algae, ferns, mosses, and lichens. The herbarium consists of a main collection and special collections such as the famous fruit and seed collection of Joseph Gärtner (1732–1791) or the former monastery herbarium of Beuron.

The Herbarium Tubingense is part of the education in the field of biology as well as a research infrastructure. Herbaria are not only archives of biological diversity and systematics, they also provide insights into climate change, other environmental changes, and the spread of rare and invasive species. Since 2020, the herbarium's specimens have been digitized and published in the online database “JACQ-Virtual Herbaria”.

To the collection in the eMuseum