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Frontiers of Discovery
TROPICOS
In the past decade, the number of plant names in TROPICOS has doubled and the number of specimen records has tripled. It is the largest and most widely used botanical database in the world.

Sharing information is the lifeblood of scientific research. Today the Garden is the world leader in gathering and providing up-to-date computerized botanical information to scientists and environmental policy planners.

Originally created by Garden researchers in the early 1980s as a internal tool, today TROPICOS is freely available to the scientific community on the Internet. In 1996, the Garden developed w3TROPICOS, a user-friendly graphic interface accessible on the Garden website at http://www.tropicos.org/.

TROPICOS includes nearly 1,555,000 specimen records, over 865,000 scientific names, and more than 80,000 bibliographic citations, plus thousands of images of living plants, herbarium specimens, and associated data. The Garden website receives about 7,000 requests for botanical information every day.

In addition, every floristic project based at the Garden posts information on the website as it is developed. This makes crucial data accessible to environmental planners and scientists years before the flora is ready for final publication.

Carmen Ulloa Assistant Curator Carmen Ulloa Ulloa coordinates the Flora de Nicaragua project at the Garden. Her research focuses on plants of the northern Andes.
Photo: Tim Parker

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Text and photos from "The Unseen Garden" available from MBG Press.
 
 
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