Online Herbarium

The Pitchandikulam Forest Virtual Herbarium was started in 2014, as a project of Pitchandikulam Forest, an environmental organization and community-based in the green belt of Auroville. In 2019 the Auroville Botanical Gardens built a dedicated space to host a new physical herbarium that was previously housed in Shakti Nursery, Auroville. As part of this consolidation of plant specimens, the Virtual Herbarium was transferred in 2020 to the Auroville Botanical Gardens and was renamed the Auroville Virtual Herbarium to reflect this broader collaboration. The Auroville Team will continue to add plant specimens to the Virtual Herbarium, both from the plant collections in Auroville and from the forests of the bioregion.

Please visit our Herbarium: https://www.aurovilleherbarium.org