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CETAF – ISTC Meeting

…mistakes. I went along to present the paper I had published last November with David Harris and Robyn Drinkwater on stable identifiers for herbarium specimens on the internet. You can…

New Species of Rhododendron from Malaysia

…Gunung Chamah. A type specimen (the specimen used to describe the new species) has just arrived at RBGE and is currently being mounted for incorporation into our herbarium.    …

Botanics Holds Triple Celebration

A triple celebration was held in the herbarium today, Thursday 14th March 2013, for three members of staff who have recently had their work recognized. From left to right: Mark…

An odd way to lose Biodiversity

…there. I spend a fair bit of time in the herbarium looking at old specimens and occasionally you come across odd things lurking in cupboards like this specimen of Clematis…

Exploring extinction risk in plants

…mountain peaks. You can follow the progress of the field team Dr Tiina Särkinen (pictured below with Prof. I. Sánchez Vega at Cajamarca herbarium, CPUN), Maria Baden and Paul Gonzales…

Venerable trees

…the John Hope Gateway about ash trees (on show until 14 July), showing items from our Library, Archive and Herbarium, to coincide with our Moving Forward from Ash Dieback project….

RBGE Collections Image Uploader – Instructions.

…the wider world. This tool is currently intended for images of the RBGE Living Collection & images associated with a particular (E) herbarium specimen – the images may be used…

Of Botanists and Brooms

…who travel in foreign parts in search of herbarium specimens or living plants for the Garden become intrigued by the cultures of the countries they are lucky enough to find…

James (Jimmy) Ratter Collection labels available online.

…kept copies of his labels, providing a valuable resource which up until now was only visible on the individual herbarium specimen and therefore only available to researchers via loans of…

Wallich Catalogue: Supplemental difficulties with thorn apples

In order to maximise the scientific impact of Herbarium of the East India Company, Wallich enlisted the help of a network of European botanists to work on the material and…

Old Woody Fibre and His Alpine Grass

…200-year-old establishment as a teaching and research institution, with a public herbarium of international scope. Balfour was responsible for the Garden’s iconic 1858 Temperate Palm House, and (in 1876) for…

Wallich Catalogue: Sylhet, Pundua & Khasia Hills

…[with comments in brackets] from C.B. Clarke’s manuscript Notes on the “Khasia” localities of Wallich’s List, as appeared as the Anonymous article, The Wallichian Herbarium, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information,…

Seaweed Collections Online

We have recently databased and imaged selected genera of British Algae held in the herbarium as part of a project run by the Natural History Museum, London. The aim of…

84° East somewhere in the Nepal Himalaya.

…Garden Edinburgh was gifted his field images. These have been subsequently scanned by digitisation team and linked to his herbarium collections we have here at Edinburgh. Back to the Stainton…

Verification

…a place in the living collection. When flowering occurs specimens are taken to the Herbarium for comparison against type specimen material and published type descriptions. After ten years this Rhododendron…

Devastation

…was named after Thomas Coulter an Irish physician who founded and then became Director of the Herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin. He also travelled to Mexico from where he made…

Rock solid blooms

…compensate. The plant growing in the woodland area is one of Joseph Rocks collections and as near to the type Paeonia suffruticosa seen in herbarium specimens. In full bloom just…

A crown at the Royal

Fritillaria imperialis ‘Orange Beauty’ Towering through the Herbarium border is the bright flowered Fritillaria imperialis ‘Orange Beauty’. These “Crown Imperials” are members of the Liliaceae family. ‘The terminal head of…

Woodland floor to hedgerow; a selection of the best British natives for Easter

…species formerly in the family Orobanchaceae but with the family revisions following the adoption of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) within the Herbarium is now in Scrophulariaceae. Lathraea clandestina is…

An easy summer task

Surely you have something better to do with your time? In the border enjoying the sun to the south of the Herbarium is a large group of Kniphofia caulescens. Not…