Mars Hill WMA must be protectedLac du Bonnet LeaderIn the 1950's they collected and donated a remarkable number of its flowering plants to the University of Manitoba's Herbarium. Using lichens to find old-growth forestsBar Harbor TimesThe professor challenged his students to collect and identify any lichens that were not in his herbarium. 
Amazing collection of printed works that are an important adjuvent to herbaria collections. 
Friesner Herbarium Blog about Indiana Plants. Timely seasonal information on wild plants, focused on Central Indiana. Learn what is blooming where and how to identify it. Skip to content. Home · About the blog ... 
Taxing times for taxonomyThe Province"The ongoing Flora of North America project, which will be the bible of plant taxonomy on this continent ... 
The British tradition of collecting plants from all four corners of the world means the UK is now home to many Japanese species which are under threat in their native land, a study reports. 
The National Virtual Herbarium, inaugurated in January 2012, aims to provide instant access to high resolution images of (eventually) all of Jordan's native plants. (#Science, #Nature, #Environment, Co-operation, Open Access, #Jordan. 
North Cyprus has its own Herbarium, located at the Alevkaya Forest Station up in the mountain area between Esentepe and Değirminlik on the east coast. The first Herbarium in Cyprus was actually located in Lefkoşa, and its ... 
Bioscience Education e-Journal is an online journal provided to enable bioscience academics with an outlet to publish pedagogical research in bioscience teaching. (RT @JSTORPlants: The End of the Botany Degree in the UK? New species of grass dedicated to University of Leicester botanistLoughborough NewsProfessor Stace, who retired in 2003 after more than 30 years at the University, is regarded as one of the UK's greatest botanists and spent many years classifying... Institute drive to save 'fungal heritage'Indian ExpressStarted with funds from Union ministry of science and technology, the NFCCI now maintains pure cultures of about 2600 living fungi, while 39000 dried (dead) samples of lichens and fungi have... 
Professor Clive Stace, Emeritus Professor of Botany in the University of Leicester Department of Biology, has received a very special new year’s honour – not from The Queen, but in a newly published plant name. In the journal Annals of Botany, a paper on the grass Brachypodium distachyon has split the plant into three species, one of which has been christened Brachypodium stacei. Via Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research, Ruth Bastow 
As of Jan. 1, diagnostic botanical descriptions may be written in Latin or English, and the electronic publication of new names is accepted.
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Pressed plants at Sewanee Herbarium give glimpses of region's natural historyThe TennesseanThe herbarium houses about 10000 specimens of flowering plants, ferns, fungi, mosses, liverworts and more. 
The University of the South Pacific herbarium (SUVA) is collaborating with the development of a regional herbaria consortium in partnership with the Department of Botany of the University of Hawaii. The new regional network ... 
The reason Ecuador is the theme of this post has less to do with temperature and more to do with the fact that The Manchester Museum herbarium is currently working with photographer and artist Johan Oldekop. 
A bottle of traditional Victorian herbal remedy will be on emergency standby to help swooning Salopians at the Dickens Weekend in Shrewsbury next month, thanks to expert advice from a town herbarium.
And, the answer is ROSEMARY oil. New plant foundFiji TimesSouth Pacific Regional Herbarium curator at USP's Institute of Applied Science, Marika Tuiwawa said they only managed to find one plant of this kind. 
The new pharmacy garden, made up of five themed beds, provides information on some 70 species of medicinal plants, many native to Kansas and the Great Plains. An extensive signage system provides information about ... 
The Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist is the first comprehensive online database for all species reported from Darwins Enchanted Isles. ![CBHL Home Page - Welcome [Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries] | Herbaria | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/ZA4R0HgtG8wtcj5fuRRWMDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) is the leading professional organization in the field of botanical and horticultural information services. 
We are proud to add this video filmed by the good people at GPI partner the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. In this video, our partners walk us through the process of digitizing the... This paper is an attempt to estimate the percentage of erroneously identified taxa in ethnographic studies concerning the use of plants and to propose a code for recording credibility of identification in historical ethnobotany publications. DNA barcoding: a new tool for palm taxonomists? (Have you visited @annbot's AoB Blog? 
So this week I bid farewell to the Herbarium at the University of Cambridge where I have been working with collections of Darwins samples. No, not audio samples of Darwin providing catchy phrases in his push to enlighten us ... |
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