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…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…
…RBGE herbarium collected by Jimmy in Brazil. Jimmy’s collections are known for the numerous co-collectors that he credits. The collection had previously been removed from Jimmy’s office in 2020 during…
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…
…but the East 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…
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…
Growing a Network for Artists and Botanic Institutions By Siôn Parkinson The first Routes to Roots network gathering in the Botanic Cottage garden. Photo: Ross Fraser McLean, 2025. On 16…
…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…
…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. …
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…
…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…
…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…
…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….
…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…