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herbarium

a reference collection of preserved plants.
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"It is one of the finest Victorian portraits in the museum, and is now appropriately displayed in the Natural Cheshire gallery along with Eliza's herbarium."
Potts in the frame at museum
"At a time when local independent shops are struggling and the Government is looking for ways to help, Shropshire Council is slapping a big cost on businesses if they have an A-board, tables and chairs, fruit and veg or just some plants outside like the Herbarium does.
HUGE RISE IN COST OF PAVEMENT PERMITS
Ms Murray-Mudson said the PSUB herbarium had imported about 2610 botanical data records of plant specimens as well as 1500 digital images to date.
Desert and Delta donates to Peter Smith University of Botswana (PSUB) herbarium
The Blatter Herbarium holds several treasures of printed botanical art: five original volumes of Adriaan Van Reede's Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (1678-93), older books including Cristobal Acosta's Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales (1578), Garcia da Orta's Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India (1563) and Robert Wight's Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis (1840-53).
Palms at the Blatter Herbarium
Ten exsiccates were added to the collection in the Herbarium of the Institute de la Patagonia (HIP #15065(4), 15066(3), 15067(3)) at the University of Magallanes (UMAG), five were sent to the Herbarium of the University of Concepcion (CONC #184295-184297 two duplicates), Concepcion; five were taken to the National Herbarium at the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago de Chile (SGO #167991-167995), three were sent to Mexico's National Herbarium (MEXU #820, 890, 891) at the University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and earlier exsiccates of R.
An update on morphology and distribution of Ruppia filifolia (Philippi) Skottsberg in the Magellan region, southern Chile
Although the basic methodology of collecting, pressing and handling herbarium sheets has not changed substantially over time, their use has markedly evolved.
Assessing the relevance of herbarium collections as tools for conservation biology
Time spent in the forest and herbarium with William Hawthorne and Daniel K.
Ntim Gyakari
Long-term phenology monitoring and herbarium specimens (pressed plants) are two sources of historical flowering and fruiting phenology data that record the timing of flowering or fruiting at a specific location in a specific year (Fig.
Impact of climate change on flowering and fruiting times of Nunavut Arctic Plants
The students, from Ali Bin Jassim Bin Mohammed Al-Thani Secondary Independent School for Boys, visited the QBG Herbarium and explored the QF Nursery where researchers explained the biological processes that take place inside greenhouses and how QBG conserves their plants.
School students learn about plants at Botanic Garden
At NYBG, for example, tucked away in manila folders, stacked in four floors of climate-controlled cabinets, are 7.8 million dried specimens, forming the second-largest such collection, or herbarium, in the world.
Harnessing the knowledge of plants, online
The Sharjah Seed Bank and Herbarium (SSBH) of the Sharjah Research Academy (SRA) was established in 2009 to explore, collect, and conserve the plant genetic resources of the country.
Growing knowledge about the floral diversity of United Arab Emirates: new additions and conservation through seed banking
An open day will be held at Treborth Botanic Garden on the same day and to coincide with this there will be a display of historic pressed plants from the herbarium to view at the museum.
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