Digitising Philippine Flora is using the citizen science site, Zooniverse to identify specimens and gather information about them. By uploading specimens onto Zooniverse, we look forward to sustained community engagment with Hugh Cuming's collection. 

To take part please visit our Zooniverse page. 

The aim of this Zooniverse project is to identify Cuming's specimens, and where possible record relevant local knowledge about plant names and uses. In doing so we hope to create an accessible database detailing this previously unknown collection of Philippine flora.

There are two strands to the Zooniverse.

One strand is focused on identifying species from sheets which are do not have labels or identifiers.

The second strand is focused on gathering further information on plants which have already been identified. The purpose is to update the names of these species, or to correct mis-identifications. By asking about use and value, we hope to learn more about how these plants are understood from botanical and cultural perspectives.