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…be again. In reality opening so many cabinet doors in the herbarium is like to lead to chastisement and possible mild corporal punishment from the herbarium staff – especially following…
…in the RBGE Herbarium in September 1903 – a real life changer for Forrest as it was here he met his future wife Clementina, and it gave him the appropriate…
…suffering from a series of droughts, and ephemeral salt-pan plants have just not been much in evidence. Herbarium collections of the plant are quite rare and fragile, but what we…
…organise and co-ordinate the exchange of plant specimens; to form a herbarium and library, to publish a Catalogue of Plants, and, to conduct botanical excursions. For the rest of his…
…door of the Herbarium (23rd). Among the mines of 16 leaf-mining moths found in October, no fewer than four were new Garden records, all members of the genus Stigmella: S….
Background information for Yes / No question ? Is this specimen in the subfamily Cichorioideae? (ie. with only ligule flowers & latex) Handout as a PDF Background The Herbarium at…
…interesting books in the library (the oldest from 1582) come from his collection, as do 3000 botanical drawings made for him by Indian artists, and his herbarium of several thousand…
Examining Sapotaceae fruits and seeds in the Herbarium with Sapotaceae researcher Peter Wilkie. If anyone had asked me if I knew any plants belonging to the Sapotaceae family eight weeks…
…On Friday morning, Will Hinchliffe one of our tree climbers shimmied up the tree and collected some male flowers spikes and immature acorns. A trip to the herbarium with the…
…and those plants, herbarium specimens and DNA samples will be an asset in years to come, particularly if habitat fragmentation continues at its current rate. The trip was a positive…
Some of the herbarium collections of Marchantia held in the RBGE herbarium Many new species are already included in natural history collections around the world, it’s just that nobody has…
…year included the Herbarium Lift replacement, which was especially welcomed by the Herbarium team who have to transport hundreds of specimens to and from the facility and novelty of stairs…
…also included a mixture of silica-dried plant material and herbarium specimens, as we’re involved in an EU-funded SYNTHESYS programme that investigates different ways of using our historic collections, including unlocking…
The type specimen of Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) from the RBGE herbarium. 160 years after the disappearance of young Scottish plant-hunter John Jeffrey, a reimagining of his missing journals finally…
Cornus capitata FED 331 1995.2647 by Inverleith House In previous Botanics Stories I have written about the joys of Herbarium Angling, but fusty old botanists do occasionally emerge into the…
…wild, as large specimens are dug up and transplanted to gardens. Photograph of two scales of cone of a female plant, RBGE herbarium RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession…
…but not formally described until 1878 by Sulpiz Kurz, curator of the herbarium of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. The Lepchas, the indigenous people of Sikkim, knew the plant as ‘tiang-moo-foo-goom’,…
…the whole of the trek, and though this was disappointing the lack of views became a running joke for us all. Back in the herbarium at RBGE the next phase…
…23rd, while a Rabbit Hutch Spider (Steatoda bipunctata) found inside the Herbarium basement was November’s fourth new Garden record. A few galls made by three gall-mites remained on those leaves…
…Grey Herons were also present regularly throughout August, with three seen together on at least one date (29th). Nuthatch was heard calling near the herbarium on 31st, and Stock Dove…