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Welcome to the first of 3 expeditions where the plant specimens have been completely imaged by Kew's incredible team of Digitisation Volunteers!

Nemesia, in the Scrophulariaceae family, is a genus of annual or perennial herbs as well as undershrubs, which are native to Southern Africa. They are commonly grown as bedding plants during their flowering season, when they display their 2-lipped flowers in white, cream, lilac, blue, yellow and red. There are over 60 accepted species in this genus, including Nemesia fruticans, which is commonly called the Cape Snapdragon due to its snapdragon-like blooms in varying colours.

Kew's Digitisation Volunteer Programme is currently supported by online volunteers, such as yourselves, and 24 onsite volunteers who are contributing to the mass digitisation of Kew's Herbarium collections. The completion of this expedition will therefore be a result of the combined effort of our onsite volunteers at Kew as well as our online volunteers on DigiVol! Thank you for your valuable contribution to Kew's Science Collections Digitisation Project.

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