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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…
One of the herbarium specimens of the ginger that became known as Roscoea humeana, collected by George Forrest in 1910. In memory of Private David Hume, who was killed in…
…second hand. This is another one of those amazing bit of botanical/horticultural curio that lies hidden in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Poor Alopecurus geniculatus deemed USELESS…
…peregrinus held in the Herbarium at the Garden. We don’t know quite when the rare duplication event took place, but the distinctive genetic signatures of both the parents make it…
…which it has, despite the primula since joining its closest ally, Primula bellidifolia and taking its name. Primula bellidifolia from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 8801, v.145, 1919. R.E. Cooper’s herbarium specimen…
RBGE has recently started to explore the use of Citizen Science platforms by providing images and data to Herbaria@Home, a long standing and successful platform for transcribing herbarium specimen labels….
…Paradoxically it is the Hortus Siccus that long outlives the Hortus Humidus, so the only tangible memorial of Bruce’s plants is a herbarium specimen of tef, collected in the Leith…
In order to look at the effects of herbarium preservation methods on DNA quality, Hannah Wilson and Mark Hughes took a trip down to our research glasshouses, and brought back…
…than from Herbarium or silica-dried material of a similar age. It was decided to do some comparisons of samples stored in RNAlater with silica dried samples and after reading internet…
…links: Darwin Innovation Grant DARNV020 Upscaling innovative ‘planting-baskets’ to restore landscape diversity, enhancing climate-resilient livelihoods Specimens from Belize held in the herbarium at RBGE Palms of Belize Chamaedorea of Belize…
44. Mahonia acanthifolia Wall ex. G. Don BERBERIDACAEAE This shrub, which has attractive, scented, yellow flowers, occurs from Uttarakhand in India to South-West China, at altitudes of 2000 to 3000…
…Gate Lodge is… The Herbarium Officially opened by HM The Queen in 1964, the Herbarium and Library was built to house the collection of three million preserved plant specimens held…
Help us unlock our collections data for use by researchers across the globe! As part of this year’s WeDigBio event, 19-22 October, we are launching a project to transcribe our…
Thanks to a project funded by the US National Science Foundation, a collaborative effort between Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has enabled the digitisation…
Working in the dry forests of the Marañón valley in Peru can be pretty intense. The Marañón River at Ucuncha, Peru. Firstly, as you might expect, it can get exceptionally…
Micro-conference participants taking a closer look at Siân Bowen’s exhibition ‘After Hortus Malabaricus’ at Inverleith House Photograph courtesy of Caterina Salvi As introduced in part one of this reflection on Sensing…
Join us virtually as we take part in the 2020 edition of the Worldwide Engagement for Digitising Biocollections, WeDigBio. This year the event takes place between 15th – 18th October….
The following blog posts on moss evolution are written by Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina (early career researcher). Migrations, extinctions, rainforests and climate change: the pressures and situations that led tree mosses to…