Herbarium

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Herbarium

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facade of Harvard Herbaria building

In botany, an herbarium is the building where the specimens are stored, or the scientific institute that not only stores but researches these specimens. A dried plant mounted on a sheet also is an herbarium. In scientific literature herbaria are recognized by acronyms, for example NY specimens are kept in New York Botanical garden.

Herbarium Media

• Herbarium book which dates from 1633. Made by the Flemish Bernardus Wynhouts.

• Herbarium specimens ("exsiccata") of various Nepenthes at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France

• Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Siebold Collection - Herbarium book.jpg

  Herbarium book with Japanese plants, Siebold collection Leiden, 1825

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  Preparing a plant for mounting

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  A large herbarium may have hundreds of cases filled with specimens.

• Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet vasterifran.jpg

  The Swedish Museum of Natural History (S), Stockholm, Sweden

Related pages

• herbal - description of plants and their uses, common in the Middle Ages

Other websites

• Index Herbariorum Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine