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…on opportunities to visit RBGE and work with the three million specimens in the herbarium, see the SYNTHESYS Access website . The project started in February 2019 and will run…
The collections from Britain and Ireland held within the RBGE Herbarium are estimated to number over 500,000 specimens of cryptogams (algae, fungi, lichens and mosses), ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants….
…extreme western and eastern coastal fringes. This hypothesis cannot be set in stone, as more in-depth sampling and analysis would be needed to confirm such a labyrinthine story. Digitised herbarium…
39. Cupressus torulosa D. Don CUPRESSACEAE Twisted cypress When Hugh Cleghorn was surveying the timber resources of the Western Himalaya in the early 1860s, he noted that this species had…
…student Sarah Carlton’s work. These were extracted from herbarium samples of various ages (from 1931 to 2012), and compounding the problems of degraded DNA in this sort of material, mints…
…herbarium contains around three million specimens and we have a team of people busily databasing and imaging them so that they are accessible via the internet. Part of this process…
Isik working on the painting of Gunnera. The herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is an archive of preserved plants that is also a hive of activity; botanists busying…
…– a much grander monument complete with bronze portrait. But digging around in the RBGE herbarium has shown that John Anderson is also responsible for our earliest collections from Yunnan….
…specimens held in the herbarium at the RBGE, explores how the South American plant, Senicio smithii came to be growing near the artist’s house in Dunnet Head in the north…
…be thought of as a Botanist and Nature’s Beloved Son, the current exhibition in the John Hope Gateway (until 25 January), features photographs of his extensive herbarium. Curated by Muir…
…be again. In reality opening so many cabinet doors in the herbarium is like to lead to chastisement and possible mild corporal punishment from the herbarium staff – especially following…
…in the RBGE Herbarium in September 1903 – a real life changer for Forrest as it was here he met his future wife Clementina, and it gave him the appropriate…
…suffering from a series of droughts, and ephemeral salt-pan plants have just not been much in evidence. Herbarium collections of the plant are quite rare and fragile, but what we…
…organise and co-ordinate the exchange of plant specimens; to form a herbarium and library, to publish a Catalogue of Plants, and, to conduct botanical excursions. For the rest of his…
…door of the Herbarium (23rd). Among the mines of 16 leaf-mining moths found in October, no fewer than four were new Garden records, all members of the genus Stigmella: S….
Background information for Yes / No question ? Is this specimen in the subfamily Cichorioideae? (ie. with only ligule flowers & latex) Handout as a PDF Background The Herbarium at…
…interesting books in the library (the oldest from 1582) come from his collection, as do 3000 botanical drawings made for him by Indian artists, and his herbarium of several thousand…
Examining Sapotaceae fruits and seeds in the Herbarium with Sapotaceae researcher Peter Wilkie. If anyone had asked me if I knew any plants belonging to the Sapotaceae family eight weeks…
…On Friday morning, Will Hinchliffe one of our tree climbers shimmied up the tree and collected some male flowers spikes and immature acorns. A trip to the herbarium with the…