With the help of Sac State Environmental Health and Safety crews, she and student volunteers decontaminated the specimens stored in cabinets, did some deep cleaning and organized thousands of books ...

Currently, about 30,000 records are being added by staff and volunteers each month. Following the entry into the digital archive, a specimen is placed in the climate-controlled herbarium cabinets.

Seeds in the herbarium often can germinate and grow -- even after years of storage in dry herbarium-cabinets. A student currently working in Swinehart's laboratory is researching the possibility of ...

The UCLA Herbarium is making its collection more accessible through its newly renovated space and digital initiatives. Founded in 1930, the herbarium features almost 150,000 specimens of dried plants.

An Herbarium is an archive of pressed and dried specimens that allow students, researchers, and citizens to observe and study the broad diversity of the plant kingdom often on a global scale and ...

This is the fifth-largest dead-plant archive in the country, and you can turn a corner and see yards and yards of these cabinets. It is a menagerie of dead plants. This is a herbarium.

We found that many former colonial powers have more plant diversity in their herbarium cabinets than they do in nature. Our data suggest that this is not the case, however, for former colonies ...

A method is described to construct magnetic fumicel packets for holding solid insect repellants (e.g., naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene) used in the herbarium. The fumicels are designed to attach ...

'A herbarium is a place to study and learn,' says Canisius. 'You need a herbarium, or a centre, as a place where you can have a shared language around plants.' Within a small building in the Forestry ...

The Hyde Herbarium on the University of Washington campus is home to more than 24,000 plant specimens and plenty of history about plants and humans.