By Abhishyant Kidangoor How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences has safeguarded 222 pressed plants since the 19th century, with plans to display specimens in ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

Kress and Krupnick used the dataset from this prior study and analyzed nearly 10,000 Heliconia specimens. Many of these dried plants, which Kress collected, were housed in the museum’s herbarium and ...

He used drawings from Sloane's collection as the basis of his description. Sloane’s Jamaican collections comprise 1,589 dried plant specimens collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) during his voyage ...

The Clemson University Board designates part of Clemson Forest as ecologically sensitive, showcasing rich biodiversity and ...

MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. Russia plans to transfer about 2,200 specimens of food plant seeds to the Global Seed Vault located on Norway’s Arctic island of Svalbard, Dr. Nikolai Dzyubenko ...

As a plant library and museum, it houses preserved plant specimens and data for scientific study. It is a dedicated depository for vouchers from plant-based pharmaceutical, environmental and ...

A dense shrub with light purple flowers found in the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district ...

The study was published in ACS Omega on 21 February 2025. The role of historical specimens and artifacts cannot be overstated. They serve as tangible links to our ancestors, offering a wealth of ...