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Untangling asetate Weissia species in the UK

…sequences from a range of fresh collected and herbarium preserved Weissia plants. Des got DNA sequence data from a number of different DNA regions, including some of the “standard” plant…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: stockpiling Begonia DNA for protocol testing

herbarium specimens relates to how the plant was treated in the field. While Hannah has been extracting DNA from some of the wild New Guinean plants that she’ll be working…

A concept to modernise RBGE

…save it to your phone. Providing the following information: Family, Genus, species ‘Cultivar’ Photo of plant in all seasons, Herbarium photos General description, notable characteristics, propagation, how to grow, hardiness…

A Desperate Escape – George Forrest on the run in China, July 1905

…and determined. Forrest, who had been a herbarium clerk at RBGE, was, from April 1904, on his first plant hunting expedition to Yunnan province, southwest China on behalf of A.K….

The Strange Grotto

…mounted on cards, that functioned both as an educational toy and what I have termed an ‘herbarium portabile’. The work of Lady Charlotte Murray (1754-1808), eldest daughter of the third…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: bead cleaning degraded Begonia DNAs

…for three of the better-quality DNA extractions (from recently heat-dried herbarium material, RNAlater tissue samples, and silica gel-dried tissue samples), the amount of DNA lost during bead clean rises steeply…

Caledonian Hall

…Gallery of Scotland, 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…

British Council workshop on Valuing Andean Biodiversity

…Forest Herbarium, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru, discussing her work on monitoring the montane and dry forests of the Peruvian Selva Central. Underpinning all benefits of Andean forests is…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: quality metrics for duplicate extractions

…DNA from the replicates. Herbarium specimen E00845133 for Begonia scottii living accession 20170076 We used plant tissue from two of the types of preservation we’d been testing – hairdryer-dried leaves,…

Generating a phylogeny of Polytrichum using hybrid baits

…generate read data from the family that can be used to design a better-targeted Polytrichaceae-specific bait set. Most of the taxa in the study will be sampled from herbarium specimens….

Polytrichum baits: Cutting mosses

…with high molecular weight DNA, IK31, and one more typical of herbarium material, IK53, with mostly degraded DNA), to devise the fragmentation protocol we would then apply across the rest…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: the mysterious case of the vanishing libraries

…think about DNA repair. In a previous study on hybrid capture of libraries constructed from herbarium material of the legume Inga (Hart et al. 2016), we hadn’t actually seen much…

Local network, social media and a new generic ginger record for Nepal

…which leaves no doubt of the identity. Although we do not yet have a proper voucher for the herbarium at Kathmandu, it is certain that we have a new generic…

Christmas Island and other ventures – legacy of RBGE gardener David Reid Tait

…collection of animals for the British Museum, and plants for RBGE, most of which are still stored in our Herbarium (see Tait’s specimens here). Tait’s Henderson Island report makes fascinating…

Orchid appears in Living Lawn

Next to the Front Range and within sight of the Library and Herbarium two small squares of lawn have been transformed into flower-rich ‘living lawns’ as part of an experiment…

Fruit and foliage

Herbarium west-facing border. This group regularly exhibits a fine range of red shades through the foliage during autumn. Again, a climatically challenging month has disrupted this. Do not neglect the…

Evidence, action, inspiration – how nature-based solutions help combat the climate emergency

…location data from herbarium specimens to show that the elevation at which iconic Himalayan poppies (Meconopsis spp.) are found has shifted upwards by an average of over 300m since 1970….

Celebrating Apple Season

…the RBGE Demonstration Garden, including Stirling Castle, Lady of Wemyss and Scotch Bridget. Today seemed the perfect day to launch our new display, ‘Celebrating Apple Season’, in the Herbarium, Library…

Fields of Plastic?

Inspired by the Think Plastic: Materials and Making exhibition, Fields of Plastic is a display of items from the RBGE Collection in the Herbarium, Library & Archive Cabinet in the…

Sweet Success

…main reception just off Inverleith Row. The enclosed space close to our herbarium and library is between buildings and this shaded area was the perfect location for Sarcococca confusa and…