This FAIRsharing record describes: African Plants is an online photo guide and identification database of vascular plants from Africa, featuring images of ferns and seed plants in their natural habitats. It allows users to browse species alphabetically or filter by traits like leaf shape and flower colour to help identify plants. The source of this description is the metadata record on FAIRsharing.org, an educational and informative resource that describes and links databases, standards, and data policies. FAIRsharing also creates collections of these resources and recommendations of databases and standards based on 3rd party data policies.