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By Liz Kimbrough Scientists have uncovered a surprising find from the Amazon Basin: three new species of plants closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that gives us chocolate. This finding ...
The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium on Mount Scio Road in St. John's houses over 100,000 dried and pressed plant specimens from across the province.
Members of the UW Board of Trustees and others watch as Madison Dale, of Laramie, who volunteers at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, glues and mounts the 1 millionth plant specimen, a Wyoming Indian ...
At Iowa State, the herbarium has more information to extract than ever. The collection has more than 700,000 specimens, roughly twice as many than at the start of Clark’s career. The growth in recent ...
In a herbarium, a mounted specimen must bear the plant’s Latin name and the name of its collector, the collection date and the details of the place where it was found.
Rachel Pedder-Smith’s 18ft Herbarium Specimen Painting, which is on display at Kew Gardens, is not only scientifically accurate, it’s an exquisite and groundbreaking work of art.
Requests for removal of samples from herbarium specimens should be addressed to the Curator, University of Colorado Herbarium, 350 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0350, U.S.A. Please read this policy statement ...
Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and ...