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Crane-fly Tipula maxima on outside of back door of herbarium building, 29 June 2015. Photo Robert Mill. On the morning of 29 June I arrived at the back door of…
…in September 2009, we received another email from Australian National Herbarium’s Chris Cargill, who had just attended the Australasian Bryophyte Workshop in Western Australia. There, Chris met up with Pina…
…into some of the photo folders Julia worked on We looked at Primula sherriffae in the herbarium, collected by Ludlow and Sherriff in SE Bhutan in 1934. As I catalogued,…
…as a versatile crop that has edible leaves and fruits. In Scotland it is not native, but we are confident it will grow here as our herbarium has numerous examples…
…good documentary evidence of the decline of the two species, preserved for posterity in the herbarium at RBGE. Although RBGE was founded in 1670, the establishment of the herbarium dates…
One of the main problems with sampling largely from herbarium specimens, rather than from material that has been specifically collected for DNA work (rapidly dried in silica gel then maintained…
…number of Society publications, devised methods for arranging and cataloguing the Society’s herbarium and collected a significant herbarium collection himself, discovering several new plants including Astragalus alpinus in the process….
Martin Gardner with the Darwin specimen in the Herbarium. The Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh dates back over 150 years to the mid-19th century and there are new…
62. Lithocarpus elegans (Blume) Soepadmo FAGACEAE Photograph of spikes of mature fruits, RBGE herbarium The genus Lithocarpus is closely related to the oaks (Quercus) and occurs in South and South-East…
…RBGE herbarium RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19940447 Scientific Name:Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss. Family:Pinaceae Genus:Picea Epithet:smithiana Collector:Howick, Charles & McNamara, William A. Year:1993 Origin:India, Bangladesh & Pakistan:Uttar Pradesh…
…in the herbarium at RBGE; Forrest’s 22327 turns out to be the Type collection Aconitum duclouxii var. ecalcaratum. So our record clearly is in error with the number 222327, it…
…a few years later. This enabled documentation of the floral and pollen morphology that allowed us to describe the species. In 2009, Dr Marlina Ardiyani from Herbarium Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute…
…recorder for West Lothian. Moths Bedstraw Hawkmoth (Hyles gallii) – A caterpillar of this scarce hawkmoth was found in September 1973 by then Keeper of the British Herbarium, Douglas McKean,…
…often filled with the former owners’ thoughts, observations, and notes. There are also volumes containing herbarium samples. Over the course of these blog posts, I will explore just a small…
…closely with George. All of these new species are described from flowering and fruiting herbarium material but in all but one case only from a single herbarium collection. This reflects…
…has been written about in a previous story, and I’d been looking at the specimens held in the Garden’s herbarium that he’d sent from West Africa. Hewan was born on…
…the research that went into the checklist the herbarium at Taiwan Forestry Research Institute provided information on type specimens collected by Japanese botanists in the 1920s and the Botanical Survey…
I’ve said this before but sometimes you find amazing things when raking through the herbarium cabinets. I first came across this specimen when I was part of the digitisation team…
A new exhibition, Natures Beloved Son, featuring the herbarium and words of pioneering conservationist John Muir, opened recently in the John Hope Gateway. The plants featured were found in herbaria…
…of Sumatra, Sulawesi and Kalimantan (Borneo). While we wait, it is a good opportunity to work in the Herbarium, photographing specimens, and meeting with our counterparts to plan for the…