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…RBGE. Syringa adamiana, now Syringa tomentella, as it appears in RBGE’s Herbarium collection. Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper at RBGE at the time, also chose to remember him by naming…
…covered in bright red flowers. Planted as a drift to the north of the herbarium, they have lifted this dreary area with their colour. Geranium Zonal Pelargonium Geranium Zonal Pelargonium…
…inflorescence in the plant world. Herbarium specimen of titan arum collected by Odoardo Beccari showing the central spadix and the skirt-like spathe. Getting any plant to thrive and ultimately flower…
…as the seed Yü made over 10,000 herbarium collections during that year in the field, which averaged 50 per day. These again were sent to RBGE and to Arnold Arboretum….
…mite were found. At least two other spiders remain unidentified and could become new records. Finally, White-legged Snake Millipedes were seen by the Herbarium on 28th-30th. Zonocymba bifasciata, a very…
…near Cairo. One of George Forrest’s Buddleia fallowiana herbarium specimens, this one collected north of Lijiang, Yunnan, in July 1910. Perhaps now is a good time to name other members…
…the back door of the Herbarium building!) was added to the growing list of Harvestmen species known from the Garden while the Garden’s first pseudoscorpion species, probably Neobisium carcinoides, was…
…Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922 Papaver rhoeas in J.H. Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in Originali seu Herbarium Vivum’, V: Halae Magdeburgicae (1762) The guns cease their…
…were seen: Dicranopalpus ramosus at its usual spot near the herbarium on 3rd and 4th, Oligolophus hanseni on 7th and Oligolophus tridens on 18th. The latter was the only new…
…Elizabeth II when she opened the library and herbarium building in 1964. The climbing glory lily Gloriosa superba (Colchicaceae), by A.S. Jervis It was therefore interesting to discover another example…
…speckled mousebird with its distinctive brown head crest. Speckled mousebirds eat the flowers of white milkwood trees, Sideroxylon inerme. Whole fruit of Omphalocarpum from the research collection in the Herbarium….
…and singing Blackcap (from 19th). No Redwings were seen and these are assumed to have departed back to Scandinavia until the autumn. A Collared Dove was singing outside the herbarium…
…are supported in the herbarium by Louise Olley. The team includes Kristine Bogomazova (PhD student) studying lichen taxonomy, Sally Eaton (PhD student) studying lichen meta-population dynamics, and Frances Stoakley (TCV…
…Herbarium for verification. Once this is completed the entry in BG-BASETM (the gardens plant data base) is updated and the label engraved. Below just are some of the species roses…
Walking home though the garden recently, after a hard day in the herbarium, my eye alighted on a small tree that I must have passed many thousands of times, but…
…botanical nomenclature, the cultivation of tropical plants and delivering IUCN red list assessments. Delegates also found time to visit our herbarium collections and provide expert identifications for hundreds of specimens….
…4 accessions of P. punctata, 5 accessions of P. spinulosa, and 2 accessions of P. exigua. Lucy also undertook a herbarium study, to revise morphological characters for the taxa and…
…herbarium voucher specimens. Some of the seeds have already being sown and will extend the range of plants displayed in the BEG, and other parts of the National Botanical Garden….
…and alder. Finally, a Common Shiny Woodlouse was seen climbing up the back wall of the Herbarium building on 21st. Close up of body markings on Birch Shieldbug, 28 October…
…can attest this is a dangerous game to play, resulting in some scorched papers! For each of the collections so far, the team have made dried herbarium specimens, cut leaf…