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…Arid House Following the tour of the glasshouses, we had a quick visit to the Herbarium, where Dr Neil Bell pulled out some of the more spectacular mosses in our…
…GBIF data feed so that RBGE can now contribute to this global resource. Currently this is around 360,000 images linked to herbarium specimens (mainly scans of specimens) and 44,000 images…
This unassuming section of trunk was sitting on a desk in the herbarium office after being “discovered” in the back of a carpological cupboard. It arrived in our collection in…
…lenses of animal eyes. It seems unlikely that Swinton did not also send herbarium specimens to Robert Graham, but, if so, these would have been sold with Graham’s herbarium in…
…another was named Primula buryana. Pam Eveleigh gives further details in her excellent blog account. There are numerous sheets of both species in the Herbarium at RBGE, including those from…
…for an identity check using DNA sequence data. We also received a duplicate of the herbarium voucher specimen from Kew, a dried pressed plant that is conserved so that anyone…
…interacted with metropolitan botanists and in 1844 gave his herbarium of 2000 specimens, mainly collected by himself in the Himalayas, to George Bentham. (The date on the printed label is…
The jeweller Susan Cross from Edinburgh College of Art has been in the herbarium recently working on a project about lace. This brought to mind a ‘natural’ source of the…
…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…