This is the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. It's one of the largest collections of dried plant specimens in the world. The tall compactors slide open, revealing shelves ...

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Her herbarium of dried plant specimens, which she had been collecting since the 1830s, was donated to the British Museum in 1865. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep ...

Each holds stacks of thousands of herbarium sheets – dried samples of plant species from around the world. Within this sprawling assemblage of plastered plants is a set of algae sheets with a ...

Van Nocker says the research team will grow seedlings and plant them around campus with the help of the MSU Herbarium. “Seeds are an excellent potential way to preserve genetics, as they last ...

Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved ...

People from around the world can now access digital records of more than one million plants with the launch of the first searchable image archive from the National Herbarium of New South Wales. The ...

The TCD herbarium contains c. 450,000 specimens of plants and algae in a custom-built historical herbarium. The herbarium was established in 1840 but contains specimens dating back to between 1626 and ...

But fear not. Amidst this crisis, an unexpected hero emerges: the humble herbarium specimen. Herbaria—collections of preserved plant specimens—have traditionally been viewed as static archives of ...

However, another one of the college’s most fascinating historical resources is less talked about. The Trinity herbarium is located in the annex of the Botany building. The interior is similar to a ...