Luckily, we here at Sketchupfamily have stumbled onto a solution. The good folks at One Community have taken up a project of gathering all botanically correct models of plants available in one page.

A very experienced botanist on their team has went through every available flora model available on the 3D Warehouse, inspected them to see if they are botanically correct, and to see which type of plants they can represent, and then catalogue it. This was a truly herculean task since the warehouse hosts over half a thousand of plant models!

You can find the botanically correct plant models catalogue here. It is hosted by the OneCommunity Global group, who are a voluntary non-profit organization, who are creating open source sustainable resources for free use by everyone.

The following is a list of plants for which you can find models in that catalogue.

1. Broadleaf deciduous trees

Oak, california bay, osage orange, yellowwood, kentucky coffee tree, soapbark, NCN, birch, maple, empress tree, sassafras, pecan, walnut, apricot, plum, almond, hazel, mulberry, pear, boldo, hackberry.

2. Nitrogen fixing trees

Chestnut, apple, birch, hazel, boldo, elm, mesquite, Robinia/black locust, ice cream bean

3. Coniferous trees

Monkey puzzle tree, pine, giant sequoia, redwood, yew, fir, california nutmeg, monkey puzzle tree

4. Tropical evergreen herbaceous perennial

Abyssinian banana, papaya, giant swamp taro, giant taro, serendipity berry, arrowroot, gunnera, rhubarb

5. Tropical broadleaf trees

Aralia, fig, ficus, chuchuhuasi

6. Palm trees

Date, palm, coconut

7. Cacti and succulents

Cereoid cactus, sanky, agave, weberi, aloe, pachycaul, copal, ciruela

8. Tropical food trees

Orange, grapefruit, mandarin, sapote, star apple, mango, kuini, bachang, breadfruit, pedalai, marang

9. Vines

Kiwi, chocolate vine, talayote, sea buckthorn

10. Water and bog plants

Water plantain, pickerel weed, arrowhead, cattail, calamus root, water lily, spatterdock, water lotus

11. Perennial grasses

Panic grass, pampus grass, bunch grass, little bluestem, sage, lemon balm, lavender, skullcap, bee balm

12. Flowering herbaceous perennial

Solomon’s seal, butcher’s bloom, mule’s foot fern, king fern, balloon flower, pasque flower, pincushion flower, gentian, onion, daisy, ox-eye daisy, chamomile, rose, peony

13. Bamboos

Various types of bamboos

Here is a rendering of some of these plants used in a SketchUp model:

Granted, there could have been a better rendering, but this output was pretty old. Hopefully you will find a model of the exact tree you were looking for here. If not, the page also links to various other related resources like cut-out trees, flowers, and even more tree models!

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