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A Gardener at War, by Freda Child

…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…

December 2015 Garden Wildlife Report

…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…

Anne Sarah Jervis (1801–1886): a new swagger print by an unrecorded artist working in India

…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…

The dodo tree and other stories

…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….

April 2016 Garden Wildlife Report

…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

Lichen Research at RBGE

…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…

A Rose by any other name

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…

A Cleghorn tree trail at RBGE

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…

10th International Flora Malesiana Symposium

…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….

Student projects at RBGE: Barcoding British Liverworts: Plagiochila (Dumort.) Dumort.

…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…

Botanical Double celebrates the Britain-Nepal Bicentenary

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….

October 2016 Garden Wildlife Report

…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…

Update: North Sulawesi Fieldwork

…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…

Destination Borneo: N 1̊ 12’ 33”, E 117 ̊ 18’ 22”

…of other species from other plant families that are of interest to researchers from Bogor Botanic Gardens and other Indonesian research institutes. These herbarium and living collections will help in…

Update: North Sulawesi Fieldwork, continued…

…also found key Sulawesi Cyrtandra species, most of which had never been recorded at this locality before, and some which had only been previously studied from dried herbarium specimens. Finding…

November 2016 Garden Wildlife Report

…leaf mines, was an exceptionally late example of Blastobasis adustella on the back wall of the herbarium building on 23 November. The only sightings of bees were Honey Bee on…

‘Dear Mary’ – An Echo of a Past Love from the RBGE Special Collections

…Perth. In 1854 he started work at the RBGE in the propagating department. However he was soon transferred to work in the Herbarium, and by the time of his Roman…

International Women’s Day 2017: Dr Catherine Kidner

…trees and herbs. She is developing ways of using herbarium specimens to examine evolutionary changes over the past 200 years and ‘rescue’ the genomes of extinct species.   #teamrbge #BeBoldForChange…

International Women’s Day 2017: Dr Jean Keeling

Jean was a Consultant Pathologist in the NHS for more than 30 years. Since retiring she has volunteered in the Herbarium for many years, preparing pressed material for mounting from…

International Women’s Day 2017: Subhani Ranasinghe

…she will go back to her home country where she will take up the role of Deputy Director of the Herbarium in the National Botanic Gardens.   #teamrbge #BeBoldForChange  …