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Building on building mosses, a return to Schistidium in the built environment

Some Schistidium collections from the RBGE Herbarium Monday 27th March was the start of a month-long visit to RBGE by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics‘s Dr Wolfgang Hofbauer, funded…

Welcome to the Estates Department!

…historically listed buildings and structures across the estate including the Herbarium, John Hope Gateway, Botanic Cottage, and the recently restored Benmore Fernery. Almost 30% of the estate is under glass,…

Inula hookeri

…because they were just tiny plants clinging on in this extreme environment. In 2015 we visited the Herbarium at Geneva, hoping to see these specimens. Our intention was to try…

DNA Sequencing Natural History Specimens Using New Sequencing Platforms and Protocols: a 1-day meeting at RBGE 11/07/2017

…Dr Guillaume Besnard, France 3:00-3:30pm: Herbarium DNA, fragmentation and plastomics: getting archival plant DNA to work. Dr Freek Bakker, Wageningen, Netherlands   4:00-4:30pm: No sample left behind! Mikkel Holger Strander…

Betula utilis var. jacquemontii

70. Betula utilis D. Don var. jacquemontii (Spach) Winkler BETULACEAE Himalayan silver birch, Jacquemont’s birch; Hindi: bhojpattra, भोजपत्र Herbarium label written on a strip of birch bark, 1864, from the…

Cryptomeria japonica

…trained at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and is best known for his efforts to introduce tea plants to India from China. Photograph of a Cryptomeria japonica cone, RBGE herbarium

Yushania anceps

…British gardens in 1910 and 1966. Photograph of herbarium specimen collected by Roland Edgar Cooper in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, 1916   RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19693382 Scientific Name:Yushania…

Pinus bhutanica

…between altitudes of 1750 and 2440 metres. Photograph of a cone of Pinus bhutanica, RBGE herbarium   RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19841998 Scientific Name:Pinus bhutanica Grierson, D.G.Long &…

Trachycarpus latisectus

…in the well known hill station of Darjeeling in West Bengal. In 1997, from dried herbarium specimens of these garden plants, it was described as a new species. It is…

Camellia sinensis

…Chinese forms that were grown in India, which were first introduced in the 1850s by Robert Fortune (who had trained here at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh). Herbarium specimen collected…

Happy Birthday India: or, the changing names of a Himalayan sumach

…var. roxburghii it is wingless. However, this variation seems to be more or less continuous. In the RBGE herbarium are many specimens from China and India, and the majority of…

July 2017 Garden Wildlife Report

…six dates from 4th onwards at the back of the herbarium building, with an amazing maximum of eight present there on 20th. Another harvestman, Paroligolophus agrestis, was also seen elsewhere…

August 2017 Garden Wildlife Report

…of the herbarium building, with four present there on 15th. Six gall-mites were identified from their galls on different trees and shrubs while the mines of 16 different leaf-mining flies…

Barcoding Britain’s Liverworts – progress to date

…Kariyawasam (2014), molecular methods and bryophyte barcoding Dr Des Callaghan (2017), British species of the moss Weissia David Bell (2017), Databasing and digitizing herbarium specimens of Aneura   SYNTHESYS Access-funded…

Stable URIs for natural history collections – The Movie

…and Serge) to make a movie about the use of stable URI’s for herbarium specimens. Despite the material they had to work with (i.e. my voice over) they have done…

A sudden concentration of Bryologists

…Sibbald Trust. Dr Kristian Hassel, head of the TRH herbarium at the NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, who is looking at the leafy liverwort Scapania nimbosa.   Bryology dinner    …

Understanding the Caatinga, Brazil

…sources such as literature and herbarium records. Brazilian Caatinga In addition to this, and perhaps more importantly, he has been taking advantage of existing phylogenetic data to uncover evolutionary patterns…

Can’t see the begonias for the trees – hidden diversity in Kalimantan

…and LIPI (Herbarium Bogoriense and Kebun Raya Bogor) is highlighting. Our joint expedition to the limestone hills of the region in late 2016 yielded 7 Begonia species, one of which…

What’s the matter with Nardia?

…find morphological characters that we could use to distinguish them in the field and in the herbarium, we would gain a far clearer picture of their distributions and of their…

In memory of Private James Christopher Adam (1882-1918), and his brother Lt. Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967)

…in plant identification and taxonomic work, presumably in the Garden’s herbarium and it seems that describing his position as ‘Helper’ underplays its significance; ‘Assistant’ might be the term used today….