Comprising more than five million specimens ranging from microscopic algae to bulky palm fronds, the National Herbarium is among the world’s largest botanical collections. And with around ...

In 1954, the specimen was sent to the U.S. National Herbarium as part of an exchange of specimens with the Natural History Museum of London.

The U.S. National Herbarium includes more than 5 million plant specimens and records, many of which have been referenced and studied to analyze and categorize which plants are likely to be winners ...

United States National Herbarium Category Chronology of Smithsonian History Notes Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

The herbarium adds 8,000 new plant specimens each year.(Supplied: The National Herbarium of NSW)"When you go into the space … it has that mysterious intrigue all archives have," Prudence Gibson ...

There are 400,000 specimens waiting to be uploaded, so experts and amateurs around the world can learn about them.

Eucalyptus pyriformis at Australian National Herbarium in Canberra. ( Supplied: CSIRO ) Instead, a new 100-megapixel camera, attached to a conveyor belt, will help researchers take up to 5,000 ...