An interactive Botanic Atlas, with help from Gemini

The Botanic Atlas is an interactive tool meant to help everyone learn more about plant life around the world. You can browse a map, search for your favorite plant or simply look around until you stumble upon something that interests you.

To create the Botanic Atlas, we worked with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, CRIA in Brazil and Cambridge University Herbarium to collect and digitize nearly 450,000 plant specimens from more than 30,000 species. This collection is a goldmine, but finding specific information to call out from half a million specimens can be tough. Gemini helped organize this massive dataset much faster than would otherwise be possible and pulls out details for you as you explore, like where certain species are found or what makes them unique, without you needing to know exactly what you’re looking for.