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Meet the Valerian Family

…post was written by Jane Cummins a herbarium volunteer working on the South Asia Curation Project. Our herbarium collections are organised into 19 floristic geographical regions. Traditionally at RBGE region…

Students’ Stories: “George Herbert Cave” by Dean Blake, 3rd Year Horticulture with Plantsmanship student at RBGE

…Darjeeling; twenty-seven of these specimen collections date between 1909-1924 and are preserved in the RBGE Herbarium. George Herbert Cave received recognition from prominent figures of the period, both for military…

Towards 3 million specimens: Ilex aquifolium: A Symbol of Christmas and Beyond

…British Isles (BSBI). Total number of specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium*: 53 specimens *Please note, that the Herbarium contains more specimens of Ilex aquifolium from other…

Towards 3 million specimens: Digitising Phyllanthaceae

…of SpecimensHerbarium Filing region1,206 India, Bangladesh & Pakistan 1,090 Indo-china 1,055 Inner China, Korea & Taiwan 1,016 Malay Islands 471 Tropical Africa Filing region definitions Herbarium specimen of Phyllanthus emblica…

Towards 3 million: Calceolariaceae, Stilbaceae and Paulowniaceae

The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Towards 3 million: Fabulous fungi found in peculiar places

The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Towards 3 million: Ochnaceae, Medusagynaceae and Quiinaceae

The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Franklin Arctic Canadian Collections at RBGE – Part 1

…Henry Le Vesconte. Robert Anstruther Goodsir’s tombstone in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh My interest in Frankliniana has been revived with a visit to the herbarium by Adriana Craciun from the…

Florilegium: A gathering of flowers

…with Annalee Davis, pausing upon RBGE’s own Herbarium and Centre for Middle-Eastern plants with Lyndsay Mann, and finally travelling through a floral take on 100 days of traditional Taiwanese mourning…

A Yorkshire copy of Bentham’s Illustrated Handbook of the British Flora

…his specimens in the Manchester Museum and in H.C. Watson’s herbarium at Kew. Had it survived the herbarium might have confirmed, or otherwise, the equivocal evidence from the annotations and…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. IX. Hybrid capture

…10 libraries: 473-649 bp: no DNA repair: Tru-Seq and NEB, 2009 herbarium and 2009 silica; DNA repair: Tru-Seq and NEB, 2009 herbarium and 2009 silica. Pool 2 (pink): 9 libraries:…

Another botanical William Jack

…in the Nepal Terai. The story of the Jack herbarium specimens now at RBGE was told in my Raffles’ Ark Redrawn: these were sent to Robert Jameson’s Edinburgh University Museum…

A diversity of forms….. but how do you tell them apart?

…specimens). Herbarium specimens of five different bamboo species. Images courtesy of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Kunming Institute of Botany Even examining type specimens can raise more questions than it…

Learning on the job: students make valuable scientific discoveries

…placed in the national herbarium of Belize, the herbarium at RBGE and other international collections around the world. This is really important because generations of students have been able to…

Spinning a Yarn

…To see more of Simone’s work, visit her website www.smlandwehrtraxler.com Artists wishing to visit the Herbarium collection or the Library & Archives at RBGE, please email herbarium@rbge.org.uk and library@rbge.org.uk respectively….

Salix lanata and Woolly Originals

We collaborated with Sarah Clarkson from Woolly Originals https://woollyoriginals.com/ who created a design based on our herbarium specimens of Salix lanata. Sarah visited the Herbarium here at RBGE on a…

Towards 3 million specimens: Digitising Amaryllidaceae & Alliaceae

The following blog was written by Iain Ratter a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

The unique plant biodiversity of the Central African bemba forests

…a certain size is identified and measured), and from herbarium specimen data. Using the herbarium specimen data allowed us to look across all species of vascular plant, not just trees,…

Towards 3 million: Lamiaceae

The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Towards 3 million specimens: Hydroleaceae, Plocospermataceae, Tetrachondraceae & Carlemanniaceae

The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…