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Botanical data in the development and creation of nature protection policy is one of the most important elements. Herbarium, museum and botanical gardens gives possibility plant visually to see and obtain information if they reach the ground. However plant banks provide both views the same thing on the screen in a very short time and able to gain relative-inquiring each other information about the plant or plants in intended area. Obtained this information contributes primarily to scientific research, to prepare of the EIA report, to create a resource base and current to environmental regulation and protection work, and to eliminate curiosity of them interested in plants. This Plant Bank has been built for the first time with all of these reasons by us. BOTANIC 2010 data base was created with the aim of actuating Plant Bank's and constituting and updating plant taxa existed as native and foreign plants in our country, and botanical features of these taxa. Pioneer of this data base was the plant of Eastern Mediterranean region which has the transition zone and the most plant diversity contains a large part of the Anatolian diagonal. This region includes up to 50% richness when it compares with plant diversity of Turkey. "Plant Bank" will be completed representing in also other regions in result of the continuation of data entry. These days, it has been came half-way point in the completion of The Plant Bank of Turkey. BOTANIC 2010 Data Base includes 65 features for each taxon. These are: endemism, threatened categories, CITES-conservation status, monumental-medicinal-food-poisonous-alien-aromatic plants, habitat, locality, systematic features, social-syntaxonomic-ecological value, the distribution maps according to GPS coordinates, place and photos, etc. This is the first database that can be done relative-inquiring each other among all of these features of taxon/taxa.