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…he was knighted in 1903. From his time in India he amassed a sizable personal herbarium of around 20,000 collections which were donated to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It…
…without a doubt is was wonderful. Over all we collected over 160 collections about 50 collections were living material 30 were seed collections and over a 100 herbarium sheets. I…
…Private Alan Menzies, killed at Loos, 25th September 1915. In addition there is a memorial tablet, unveiled in 1925, set on the wall in the Herbarium reception area as a…
…much press attention for decimating crop yields and threatening global food security. A specimen of rust fungi from the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In order to complete…
Looking into the cabinets of the RBGE herbarium never fails to turn up a surprise. Today I was looking for specimens that might have come from the almost entirely destroyed…
…herbarium specimen is also collected, the location is recorded using GPS and a description of the habitat and associated species is made. This data is stored in our database. When…
…as it will give the audience a chance to see behind the scenes in our library, archive and herbarium, and meet some of the authors and staff who contributed to…
…species was determined as L.croceovelutinus. A specimen and accompanying field notes have now been stored in the herbarium for future reference. The cap colour change following application of 10% KOH…
…multiple sets) for the RBGE herbarium, especially in the genera Rhododendron and Primula. We have now databased 9,595 of these specimens. These can be found on our website by searching…
…a large slice of tree trunk, felled by Forrest and his collectors in 1931 – it may even be our largest herbarium specimen? The slice of tree trunk – just…
…in a collaboration between RBGE and Harvard University Herbarium. The name means “few stamens”, as the male flowers have between 4 and 8 stamens, not 40-60-odd as in most other…
…to boost in 1904 by recommending herbarium clerk George Forrest for a Chinese plant collecting expedition. Forrest went on to complete seven successful expeditions to Yunnan in SW China, becoming…
…who went on to write the first Flora of Nepal. The original material was collected in Nepal and formed part of the large East India Company Herbarium distributed by Natanial…
…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…