Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES), The Harvard University Herbaria houses c. 131,000 plant specimens with c. 2,500 holotypes and 3,500 isotypes.

What do you see when you look at a herbarium specimen? Just a boring, dried plant?

They actually hold many secrets to help scientists save people & our planet🌍

Check out what a scientist sees when they look at a herbarium specimen 🧵👇
👉kew.org/read-and-watch…

Some of my favorite digital archives

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view……

Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online

Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht……

NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

Of the 9506 species in our vast tree of life, 3466 were sequenced from #herbarium specimens, some nearly 200 years old like this Arenaria globiflora collected by Nathaniel Wallich in the #Himalayas . #Herbaria are new frontiers for #genomic research!

Couldn't agree more! And I'm proud to say that two of those herbarium samples were my collections 😇
#herbaria #botany

Aarhus University herbarium houses c. 750,000 specimens with 1,800 types.

Calling all citizen scientists! 📢

Become an online volunteer with Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) and transcribe herbarium specimen labels, directly adding to ‘big data’ for biodiversity research.

Find out more and get involved: bit.ly/44e2UqB

During a visit of the Royal Library of Belgium KBR, we came across some Fucus specimens in a bound herbarium dating back to 1680 (!), collected by an army doctor serving in the Catholic Spanish army in The Southern Netherlands #seaweed #algae #herbarium

Post from Herbarium World about the Darlington Herbarium at West Chester University and how it is now part of the university library's Special Collections herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/the… WCUSpecColl West Chester University

Lancaster friends! 👋 I am headlining The Wordarium open mic tonight at The Herbarium! Sign up from 7 - come say hi, and hear some new new NEW poems 👀 see you there! 🍓🍏🍒

An excellent recap of the ALIA South Coast PlantBank & National Herbarium Lord Rob Thomson 🙂

Plant #fossilfriday . And a spot of herbarium power.

Who ate all the nuts! Squirrel Nutkin did. Egenollf's Herbarium (1562). RHS Library

Proud of my UZH Science lab members Saldanha & Castro whose artistic talent is awarded in nature's 'Working Scientist photography competition'. Their photo showcases the University of Zurich + ETH Zurich Herbarium—crucial for their botanical & inter-disciplinary work 💚nature.com/immersive/d415…

Find out how else simple dried plants can help save people & our planet 👉 buff.ly/3EIX2tJ

We're bringing our ENTIRE herbarium collection online to supercharge biodiversity-saving efforts AND it will be totally free for all to use!

As a Duke postdoc alum, DUKE herbarium user, and proud member of Pryer Nation, many many thanks to the folks that did this!

Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿
Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers.
Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB

The recent discovery of five new species of wild #mushrooms by a team led by Dr. Kanad Das, a distinguished mycologist and Scientist-F at the Botanical Survey of India, Central National Herbarium Howrah, marks a significant advancement in the field of mycology—the study of fungi.…

Check out our new blog out today with an interesting way of decolonising herbarium collections natsca.blog/2024/04/25/tri…

On April 25, 2024, Shri Sakesh Prasad Singh, the Chief Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), paid a visit to the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden (AJCBIBG), and Central National Herbarium (CNH), Howrah. 1/2