Largest herbarium
- Who
- Muséum National
- Where
- France (Paris,)
- When
- 25 February 2003
The largest herbarium in the world contains 8,880,000 species of preserved plants and is in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
There are 42,000 drawers in 4 galleries, each measuring 60 m (196.8 ft) long.
It is believed that total number of species preserved in herbaria all over the world numbers over 300 million.