Digitizing the records of our herbarium specimens is important for expanding our scientific reach, but safely securing museum specimens is essential for current and future botanical research. Gary ...

In 1770, after Captain Cook's Endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected hundreds of plants. One of those pressed plants ...

Herbarium specimens—pressed and preserved plant materials maintained in curated collections—have long served as vital records of species occurrence, morphology and distribution. In recent decades, ...

Plant specimens stored in herbaria are being used to explore important ecological questions. Researchers have now shown the effectiveness of herbarium specimens of herbaceous plants to track changes ...

The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, holds the finest collection of plants and fungi in the world. But, more than a museum, it is a crucial research centre keeping tabs on how ecosystems ...

(ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis operates one of the largest and fastest growing herbaria in the world, and the second largest in the western hemisphere. With the addition of a ...

The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those offices is a ...

Around 700,000 specimens to be digitised in project to document biodiversity - Insects and plants are among the items that will be digitised.

Deb Lewis is curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium inside Bessey Hall at Iowa State. She is handling historic specimens collected by George Washington Carver and Ada Hayden. Credit: Christopher Gannon, ...

Tucked away in Perdana Botanical Gardens, a little-known herbarium preserves thousands of specimens as a repository for future generations.