@tropicalbotany.bsky.social on Bluesky. @thebotanics.bsky.social on Bluesky. @tropicalbotany.bsky.social on Bluesky. (1) Botanic Gardens of Sydney on X: "Go behind the scenes of the Gardens with our first ever online image archive - hosting over a million plant specimens from the National Herbarium of New South Wales. Explore the fascinating world of plants: (7) Henrietta Lockhart on X: "#Museum30 The paper in this late 19th-century scrapbook is specially prepared for the preservation of botanical specimens. Some of them have lasted well! #paper @winterbournehg @socherbcurators @flannerm.
(3) Dr Jill Whitelock on X: "Four-leaf clover from 1900. From a folder of ‘Scraps’ removed from the diaries of Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), Librarian @theUL. MS Add. 7447 / X. (1) Kew Gardens on X: "It's not unusual to see helicopter seeds (aka samara) fall around autumn, but have you ever seen one this size!? □ Whilst digitising our collection we came across this one from Centrolobium ochroxylum Rose ex Rudd – a tree from the. Kew Africa Team on X: "Spent the weekend sharing the magic of the @KewHerbarium with curious visitors during @openhouselondon. So grateful for the opportunity to showcase our botanical treasures! Thanks to everyone who took part □ #plantlove #botany #comm.
Lichen on Swedish roof tiles. Herbarium - Univ. of Hohenheim on X: "This semester I have had the honour to participate at the #systbotany practical course, leading the #herbarium chapter at @UniHohenheim they were allowed to sew tree’s twigs on paper to fix them, but one student used. The Damselfly and the Fire Bell – Tales from the Kew herbarium. Every herbarium specimen has a story to tell Usually, specimens are named in the field when they are cut from a live plant and collected. A collector’s label, which includes the provisional name and contextual information about the specimen, enters Kew together with the dried plant cutting. The naming in the field needs to be confirmed using a published key and description, and most importantly, by matching to verified specimens in the collections. During the naming process, botanists at Kew check the specimens and determine, confirm or redetermine their names, writing the identified name on a small, standardised piece of paper called a ‘determination slip’, or ‘det slip’ for short.
Previous det slips are not replaced but added to, allowing us to track each specimen’s story of botanical identification. The palm specimen pictured below was named as Dypsis aff. concinna by its collector in 2012. Taking a ‘Leaf’ of Faith: Managing a Forgotten University Herbarium. Written by Anna Robson, Graduate Intern Archaeology and Bioscience Collections, Durham University. Background to the Collection At Durham University, an herbarium of international scope has recently been reawakened revealing unique plant specimens and important stories about the Bioscience Collection as a whole.
Over the past 18 months, the Archaeology and Bioscience Curator and Intern have undergone a process of conserving, managing, and researching the ex-teaching Bioscience Collection. Once part of the Bioscience Department’s teaching materials, this collection comprises of skeletal material, antler trophy heads, taxidermy, entomology, oology, a spirit collection and an herbarium. To give a brief history to the collection, Durham University used to teach Zoology (established 1946) and Botany (established 1932), with Botany in the founding four departments of science in the University.
People and Projects Welsh Grass Breeding Programme Margaret Bradshaw D. D.M. Locations What’s Next? (13) CienciaConArte |Ccª| on X: ""Flores que adornando estáis el cuartito de mi hermana, pronto estarán vuestras hojas sin olor y sin fragancia. Pues al mirar la hermosura y los encantos de Blanca, plegaréis vuestras corolas al ver que en belleza os gana. (18) NatSCA on X: "Check out our new blog out today 'Taking a ‘Leaf’ of Faith: Managing a Forgotten University Herbarium' / X. (4) MSU Herbarium on X: "A great example of an herbarium specimen capturing a larger cultural context. This specimen was mounted with a newspaper article describing plans to convert part of southern Michigan’s dunes into a sand mine. Despite protests, the.
(9) RNG Herbarium on X: "#AdventBotany Day 7 A Rum Affair - Karl Sabbagh - the biggest fraud in #Botany? We have many J Heslop-Harrison specimens from Rum & nearby. Read the book & check specimens below. #BotanyBooks / X. Black Spleenwort; Snapshots from the 19th Century – Cumberland House Natural History Museum. Work on the fern collection has continued in the herbarium, and as we go through the plants, we find many new localities and dates. I have been cataloguing Black Spleenwort from the Guermonprez Collection, a beautiful fern species that grows in rock crevices, hedge-banks and on walls.
It is widespread but most common in the West of the UK.1 Having detailed information about a plant’s locality is important in herbaria as it helps researchers map the distribution of species, and it means they can return to the same site in the future.2 A locality and a date together can also provide some context for the collection. The following plants’ localities and their dates of collection give us glimpses into the past, and in some cases at important events in the 19th century. From smuggling and archaeology in Cornwall, to the mining industry in the mountains and the new railways of Wales, these plants have seen it all. Mousehole Cavern, 1894 Lanyon Quoit, 1894 Aberystwyth rocks, 1868 References: (3) Violet Nicholls on X: "New #blog post ✨ Connecting a fern in the #herbarium with moments in history - industry, archaeology and smuggling in the 19th century. □ #blackspleenwort #ferns #socialhistory #cornwall #wales "Black Spleenwort; Snapshots from.
(8) Andrea Hart on X: "“Lichen #frame with a group of wild tamarind blossoms and bamboo grass. Ribbon of Spanish dagger” - from a most curious volume titled ‘Jamaica Curiosities’ - extreme plant art? Creator tbc #Museum30 #CuriousCollections #Exsiccatae / (16) Pedro Jiménez Mejías on X: "Have you ever seen a pineapple herbarium voucher? You can see that and other botanical amusements in the Botanical Center of Juzbado! □□□ / X. Herbarium - Univ. of Hohenheim on X: "Love when I am working on a database and find #herbarium specimens with notes like this one attached to them #iamabotanist #iamacurator / X. Ian Senior on X: "We had an elm workshop yesterday. @BrambleBotanist brought his herbarium for us to view before going hunting for unusual elms in the surrounding countryside. @BSBIbotany #wildflowerhour / X.
Cats! Is this true of catnip? The commentary on this sheet says that cats react to catnip only when the plant is transplanted - not when grown from seed. & they are "fond of it in a languid withering state" (also that catnip jam is good for nightmares. During digitisation we find interesting and historical ways of preserving material. This is a small flattened vial which is part of a specimen of Melampyrum nemorosum L. collected from Tirrol, Austria in 1892 by Porto. Anybody: send pictures of your trip! The pictures of my trip. Shifts in flowering phenology in response to spring temperatures in eastern Tennessee (new #AJB research by Alexandra Faidiga, Margaret Oliver, Jessica Budke, Susan Kalisz) #botany #herbarium #climatechange @wileyplantsci. I often describe my research as "going on a treasure hunt". Certainly feels like it when finding a ✨shiny✨ #herbarium specimen! One of the many gems in the collections of the Cambridge University Herbarium. @CUHerb @plantsci @CUBotanicGarden @CamUnivMuseu.
Here's what my machine learning model does. It finds the pixels of leaves on the herbarium sheets. This saves me from ha… Before & after: How Titan Arum, perhaps the world's most unusual plant, looks once immortalised as a digital copy. 40% of plants are at risk of extinction, meaning many may not make it to 2030... □□
3. Skipping Roots What do you see? When our Digitisers pulled out this specimen, the idea of a happy skipping root quickly came to mind □ Okay #herbarium folks… I need to see your specimens featuring the coolest #maps □□□ Just when you thought you’d seen every possible type of leaf, something like this pops up. The aquatic Aponogeton madagascariensis, also known as the lace plant. #curation #herbarium #kewdigiproject.
Te reo Māori is helpful for databasing. Knowing the basics helps find places. There is no Big Kuri creek but there is Kurinui creek at Hampden. Following the cowslip theme of the week... A beautiful specimen of "pensive heads" collected in Lincolnshire by Miss CM Cautley in 1830, complete with poetry and recipes... I particularly like "Ye lovely flowers of lowly birth...." □ □□ @LoveLincsPlants. Sad herbarium :( Mrotholi.
Sparse Specimens. Wax mountings. Account books with specimens. Collected at a bus stop. The Birks of Aberfeldy were named after the #RobertBurns. American flag. Cobra Plant and Frog. Labels in code: to decipher the labels on William Courten (1. Cotton folder with samples from Brazil at Paris Exhibition in NHM. Arthur Cronquist's Hat. By Amy Weiss Mar 9 2019 If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist, you might notice that many have field photographs.
And in those photographs, there is often a hat. Part traveling gnome and part hidden picture puzzle – these specimens are like looking at a vacation album full of photos of Art Cronquist’s hat and the new plant friends it made along the way. The hat often appears in collections from the 1960’s, but has been spotted as late as 1985. Art placed the hat beside the plants to show comparative size – many collectors often include something to show scale in photographs (like a coin).
Pride for home county specimens. Curse. Date wrong. Pic of the whole specimen. Davallia is fun genus, full of #epiphytes--their fluffy rhizomes can wrap around surfaces like branches and hold fast like #orchids! Also known as rabbit's foot fern, they're even grown as #houseplants. Fixing Fern finery for final format! Fifty six years after being collected by Braithwaite in the Solomon Islands, his Cyatheaceae specimen is reconstructed ready for inclusion in the Herbarium Sheet 1 of 7! Historical collections for the future. @KewScien.
Ferns were removed and other plants added, but fern labels remain. How a golf ball fooled scientists to become the world’s rarest fungus. “I think Golfballia ambusta is a fantastic story and one that has real impact on how we understand, or perhaps misunderstand, what makes a species. It’s also a very funny joke that gently ribs mycologists who perhaps take themselves too seriously. However, a joke is only funny as its audience finds it to be. History is littered with jokes that have lost their meaning as language, society, and people’s tastes change and evolve. Increasingly, I fear, Golfballia is joining this growing pile of jokes. It’s almost cliché to talk about how taxonomy is in crisis — fewer people being involved in the field means a lot of its stories are gradually being lost and this results in a type of disciplinary memory loss where the context of events such as the description of a golf ball as a fungus is lost into the ether.
Furthermore, on a more conceptual level, whilst the DNA-age has brought about many benefits, it has also led to a simplification of the understanding of species. 200 years old hay, used as isolation material in the House. Heart. Grown from seeds found in monkey dung. Imaginative mounting. Probably the largest specimen in Algae @NHM_Botany, getting an outing to measure dimensions. Alaria seaweed collected by Edward George on his holidays in Whitby, June 1866. Imagining him trying to press this in a local guest house...
Specimen made from Isaac Newton's gravity tree. Clots of green nickel-rich latex. Branchlets cut by parrots. #collectedtoday, IdaRoper made her herbarium sheets very thoughtfully. They often include photos, letters, cuttings from articles, even yarn samples for dye plants. Tiny plant collection. Seaweed Picture. Seeds. Mr Tinkler's Rheumatic Potato - Scarborough Museums and Galleries. This beauty from our William Clarke Charms Collection and was carried by – well, Mr Tinkler – back in 1911 as a charm against rheumatism. Did it work? We’ll never know, but we’re glad it exists for the name alone… The Charms collection was donated to Scarborough in 1946 and is currently in the care of Scarborough Museums and Galleries.
The collection contains over 500 objects collected from around the world by Clarke and his associates from 1891 until his death in 1945. Clarke was born in Scarborough in 1868 and developed an interest in the natural world from a young age. He gave his first lecture on reptiles aged 15 in 1883 and was a founder member of the Scarborough Field Naturalists several years later, acting as the group’s President at the age of 23. This lifelong interest in the natural world undoubtedly led to Clarke’s fascination with folk belief and the collecting of charms due to the practice of folklore often borrowing from nature. Dog Face.