musharna/lobelia-silhouettes

Lobelia silhouettes 39 whole-plant silhouettes across 27 species of Lobelia, digitally restored from herbarium specimens between April 2018 and February 2019. Every silhouette carries true physical scale. A pressed herbarium specimen is a plant that has been folded to fit a sheet, mounted with tape and glue, annotated, and photographed decades later. Each sheet here was restored in Photoshop — leaves digitally unfolded, snapped stems rejoined, labels, tape, mounting strips and… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/musharna/lobelia-silhouettes.