The herbarium with its many boxes of pressed plants
Hello, this blog is from the herbarium at the Manchester Museum. Our intention is to let you know a little bit about what we do here behind the scenes at the museum and share with you the sorts of things we find interesting.
The herbarium itself is a collection of some 650,000 specimens of preserved plants. Most are in the form of pressed specimens on flat sheets. Some are in small packets e.g. the mosses and lichens and some are even 3D e.g. our collection of fruits and seeds.
The collection is mostly Victorian with specimens from all around the world. The collection covers a whole range of plant groups including flowering plants, mosses, seaweeds, fungi lichens.
[...] Herbology Manchester: stories from the Manchester Museum Herbarium [...]
By: PaleoManchester on Twitter and brand new museum blogs « Palaeo Manchester Blog on November 12, 2009
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Please…Could you tell me if there is a tree that has quite large green leaves on it and some kind od of ornamint or fruit that is dark brown and shaped like a peanutbutter cup..I am not joking. I have this in the middle of my garden..I think it is a tree I planted in 2003..I thought it died, but suddenly this tree shaped thing is growing..It is almost 5 foot tall. My husband wants to cut it down. I will not let him until I find out what it is..It is very striking and unusual. Thank you.
By: Carol on October 13, 2010
at 1:48 am
Hi, I was just wondering if the herbarium is open to the public?
By: Josie on September 28, 2011
at 4:44 pm
Hi josie
The herbarium is open to anyone who is interested. Just contact us here to make an appointment and come and have a look! http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/
By: Lindsey on November 28, 2011
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