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At the core of RBGE’s scientific mission is to “explore” the world of plants and on the 350th anniversary of our foundation, the herbarium’s 3 million specimens from 157 countries…
…and became one of the most prolific collectors in the early 20th century. He travelled Australia before joining the herbarium staff at Edinburgh where he worked for two years before…
…Alexander Fisher, and James Ross; there are many duplicates in the RBGE herbarium). Brown, for the title of his account, instead of using the conventional Latin name of the goddess…
…herbarium specimens and a full data set with information about the location, habitat, associated flora and the individual plants (such as height, girth, sex and health) from which material was…
Born Lamington, 2 May 1780; died Madras, 24 November 1819 When discussing the collectors of the ‘Wallich’ Herbarium, William Somervell Mitchell was not included as his collections were not sent…
…varietal rank. Type of L. serotina var. parva. L. serotina var. parva, Lasha Chhu, N Sikkim Close examination of the flowers of herbarium specimens of dwarf alpine specimens from the…
…Garden Edinburgh we have, lurking in herbarium cabinets, some amazing historic Tea specimens. James McNabs’s teaching specimens. These two specimens would have been used to for teaching the Botany students…
Close up of capsule from George Forrest herbarium specimen of Rhododendron forrestii In the Autumn of 1914, George Forrest was travelling in China. His letters written at the time…
…enter into a small, carefully lit space. The look is profoundly reminiscent of the Herbarium, suggestive of the cabinets she opened, to see dried pressed specimens of the botanical plant…
…sequence data, the herbarium voucher specimens for the accessions that were sequenced needed to be digitized, and the images, sequence files and all accompanying data submitted to the official Barcode…
I recently joined the research staff of the RBGE as a fern taxonomist focusing on the diversity of tropical southeast Asia. RBGE is perfect for me. Its herbarium houses rich…
…(both on-site and online) and staff at RBGE and NYBG have worked together to complete the digitisation of the 16,877 vascular plant herbarium specimens from Myanmar held at RBGE. This…
…follow after agreeing to sell his herbarium to Harvard. However, Caroline died September 1894. Specimen of Phacelia heterophylla https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01010634 Specimen of Mertensia sibirica https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01077688 The specimens we have in the…
…how we set up to observe bryophytes in our herbarium. Their herbarium conservation and observation strategies are a little different to most flowering plants’, given their small size. Credit: Diego…
The following blog was written by Natalie Zarte a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each…
2013 sees a very special partnership between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the Scottish Poetry Library. From June to September, each RBGE Garden will host its very own…
Unidentified Forrest specimen from the genus Primula George Forrest was a prolific plant hunter; it’s estimated that here in the herbarium there are around 31,000 pressed plant specimens collected by…
…Smith became Keeper of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. While in Calcutta, and then later in Lloyd Botanic Garden Darjeeling, Cooper studied botany and horticulture under the…
…herbarium. All four institutions are the collaborating partners working on the Flora of Nepal, so everyone benifits from the fieldwork. Patick and myself have spent time working on the Pedicularis…
…trepidation I spent many hours brushing up on Bhutanese trees, studying the Grierson & Long field books from the 1980’s, and photographing herbarium specimens of oaks to refer to in…