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Exhibition: Botanical Women

…plants. Jennifer Wood: two photographs, one press cutting and two herbarium specimens, 1965 I have included some of my highlights from the RBGE library, archives and herbarium, including interesting objects…

Waiting for Rhododendron mogeanum

…in 2003 by George from a single preserved herbarium collection made by Dr Joannes Mogea, the former curator of Herbarium Bogoriense. Rhododendron mogeanum Argent. CASK 63. Accession Number:20110220*A . Photo:…

The Caledonian Hall & the former RCHS Experimental Garden

…as an exhibition hall for its flower shows, to be staged in the heart of the Society’s garden. From 1864 until 1964, it housed the Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Garden…

RBGE 1970-2020

…of Edinburgh, the origins of the three-million strong herbarium and botanical library, and the construction of glasshouses accommodating everything from tropical palms to montane rhododendrons, cacti, ferns, the giant waterlily…

Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922) – an appreciation

…Balfour was very interested in the flora of China, and when in 1904 he got the chance, he recommended one of his herbarium clerks, George Forrest, to go on a…

Margaret Gatty – Victorian author and seaweed collector

…and included 86 colour plates, simple species descriptions, recommendations for laying out and arranging specimens in the herbarium, and a key for identification. Plate XLIII, British Sea-Weeds, V.2., 1872 Gatty,…

LGBT History Month: Elke Mackenzie

…deny safe anchorages to German vessels during WWII. She travelled and worked across South and North America, building up an extensive collection of herbarium specimens. She became the director of…

A small plant with a big genome

…preserved in perpetuity as a pressed specimen in the Garden’s herbarium collection of around 3 million specimens that is a critical resource for botanical research. Voucher specimen of small adder’s-tongue,…

Two liliaceous drawings by Stella Ross-Craig

…Stella Ross-Craig A very delightful day – first being taken to Branstone Lodge, Kew Road (now demolished), by Mr Cotton (“Bunny”), Keeper of the Herbarium, who, on the way, told…

Towards 3 million specimens: Sphenocleaceae & Montiniaceae

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…

Will generative AI lead to the zombie name apocalypse?

…names today are handwritten labels on herbarium specimens or the glitches in optical character recognition (OCR). But this Meconopsis episode looked like something different, a new source of trouble. We…

Cataloguing Recent Entries into the Botanic Art Collection

…for identification, housed within herbarium files among plant specimens. These have been removed from the herbarium in order to preserve the materials and prevent any degradation that could occur due…

In memory of Private David Hume (1888-1914)

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…

Sutton’s vasculum of grasses and seeds

…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…

New to Science 2015 – Mimulus peregrinus

…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…

Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915

…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…

Carex on Herbaria@Home

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….

A Story Behind Every Plant

…RBGE’s glasshouse horticulturists. He was presented with a special herbarium specimen of his Rhododendron praetervisum, which I am assured will be framed and take pride of place in his home….

Bruce’s Abyssinian plants in the Leith Walk Garden

…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…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: Squashing Begonia

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…