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Our recent publication is now available !!!

#daffodils #kewgreen #kewgardens

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snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) #kew #kewgarden #theroyalbotanicgardenkew

Kew's library is one of the largest collections of published botanical information in the world. The taxonomy and systematics of wild plants are main subject area here. #kew #kewlibrary #kewgardens

Tropical Nursery with c. 10,000 species from 21 climatic zones for research, conservation and our botanic gardens. #kew #kewgardens

Sir William Jackson Hooker, Charles Darwin, and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew Herbarium #kewherbarium #kew #kewgardens

The winter at Kew #kew #kewgarden #theroyalbotanicgardenskew #London

Since at least Roman times, the concept of cultivating plants in controlled environments has been around.

The Herbarium of the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum Vienna (W) was established in 1807 and is widely recognised as one of the world’s premier botanical collections, which houses c. 5.5 million plant specimens and c. 200,000 type specimens.

The Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium, Natural History Museum, London holds c. 265 volumes of herbarium books since pre-Linnaean (1660–1753) in which the plant names have more than 2 words (Linnaean proposed binomial nomenclature).

Vienna Dioscurides assumed to have been created in Constantinople around 500, is one of the most famous manuscripts of late antiquity. Its main section contains images of 383 alphabetically arranged medicinal plants; the corresponding text by the greek physician Dioscurides.

Berlin Botanic Garden

Regular visitation by high school students at TTM Herbarium on 20 June 2024 experiencing the world of medicinal plants and Thai traditional medicine 💊 How plants are important for humans and their way of life !!!

Leiden (L) herbarium (formerly known as the Rijksherbarium), was established in 1829, and is now united into Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, the Botany Department of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, is one of the largest herbaria in the world with c. 5.5 million specimens.

The Leiden Botanical Garden, also known as Hortus Botanicus or Hortus Academicus, was founded in 1590 and is the oldest botanical garden outside of Italy. It is also the first botanical garden in Europe to have introduced plants from tropical and subtropical regions.

Plant collecting #phd #thrixspermum #thailand #phukhieochaiyaphum

University of Aberdeen Herbarium (ABD) houses c. 120,000 specimens with c. 400 types collecting from the northern Scotland and South-East Asia.

The Herbarium at the Natural History Museum, London (BM) hold c. 2,000,000 specimens with c. 110,000 type specimens