Hundreds of thousands of "antique" plants and flowers are to be studied to measure changing levels of pollution and air ...

The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated in Europe at the time of ...

Gwil arrived at Kew in October 1974, not as a trained taxonomist but as a keen gardener, with a degree in botany and fresh ...

The Museum's two million General Herbarium specimens represent a unique global resource for studying global seed plant diversity. The collections in the General Herbarium are from all over the world ...

Related to the European herb Belladonna (Datura), this plant is a natural source of atropine and scopolamine. Atropine was used by Italian beauties of past centuries to dilate their pupils ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

The Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU) is a broad collection, both taxonomically and geographically. Holdings include specimens of vascular plants, mosses, fungi, and algae, along with our special ...

The Dead Plant Society project will lead a search through the 250,000-strong collection in Leeds to compare modern plants and flowers to those collected in the past. Experts hope they will be able to ...