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About Digitising Philippine Flora
Digitising Philippine Flora is an interdisciplinary collaborative project between the Cambridge University Herbarium and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
Currently, this project is focused on plants collected by Hugh Cuming (1791-1865), a nineteenth-century British collector and naturalist who operated in the Philippines during the 1830s. In addition to locating specimens collected by Cuming in the Cambridge University Herbarium, we are digitising the sheets, enabling us to work with citizen scientists and Philippine botanists to identify plants, transcribe descriptions, and better understand the rich Philippine flora represented in the collection. With a focus on collaboration and community participation, the project will use the newly digitised Cuming collection to bring together botanists, historians and anthropologists with an interest in Philippine flora, building ties between Cambridge and other global institutions.