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Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
Online since: June 15, 2009
Last update: December 12, 2025
The herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (herbarium acronym: B) is the largest in Germany and holds a collection of more than 3.5 million preserved specimens. All plant groups – flowering plants, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as fungi and lichens – are represented in the collections which are worldwide in scope. Associated with the general herbarium are special collections of dried fruits and seeds, wood samples, and specimens preserved in alcohol. The collections of the herbarium are growing constantly through field research conducted by staff, and through gifts, acquisitions, and exchanges of specimens from other herbaria. The BGBM is a founding member of GGBN as well as its precursor project DNA Bank Network and currently hosting the technical secretariat of GGBN.

Berlin-Dahlem DNA Bank

The DNA bank of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem holds currently a collection of 20.000 plant DNA and tissue samples growing constantly. Its core collection focuses on the flora of the Berlin and Brandenburg but it also preserves DNA from the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Altai Mountains as well as more than 2000 diatom DNA samples.

Contacts

Primary Contact
Gabi Droege
g.droege@bo.berlin
Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8
14195 Berlin
Germany
Sample Requests
Belen Escobari
dna-bank@bo.berlin
Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8
14195 Berlin
Germany

Institution Type

Herbarium, Botanic garden, Museum, Repository

Collection Type

Genetic, Tissue, Preserved

Collection Coverage

Kingdoms: Plantae, Protista
Taxa: Asterales, Caroyphyllales, Bacillariophyta
Geospatial: Euro+Med, Caucasus, Asia

Usage restrictions

The use of the data is allowed only for non-profit scientific use and for non-profit nature conservation purpose. The data bases or part of it may only be used or copied by the written permission from the legal owner.

Curation details

Primary Purpose: Research
Development Status: Active growth
Preservation methods: Frozen, Dried, Recorded (digital)
Known to contain types: Yes

McGinley Conservation statuses

Level 6: Identified, integrated, and adequately curated.
Date: 2012-07-30

Institution Codes

Acronym: BGBM
CITES: DE 203-03

Rights

The copyright for any material created by the DNA bank of the BGBM is reserved. The duplication or use of information and data such as texts or images is only permitted with the indication of the source or with prior approval by the BGBM.
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