We spent the day at Kew Gardens visiting the herbarium, fungarium, library, and laboratories. The herbarium houses over seven million plant specimens. Dried and pressed plants are attached to sheets of paper detailing the name, place, collector, date of collection, altitude and land properties from which they came. The specimens include the original types, upon which descriptions of new plants are still based – we the saw original arabica coffee type. Each is stored cupboards classified in order of family, genera and species. The collection continues to be extended as new species and relationships are discovered. In the fungarium we saw various samples including some collected by Darwin. In the library we saw beautiful examples of botanic art, old and new, including illustrations from the Ortus Sanitus from 1485. We were also shown the scanning electron microscope and laboratories where specimens are analysed and confiscated chunks of wood such as ebony seized by UK customs and border control.
Visit to Kew Gardens – Herbarium and Fungarium
Blog
- ▼ 2019 (2)
- ► 2018 (7)
- ► 2017 (70)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (1)
- ► August (4)
- ► July (3)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (13)
- Core Staging Tests
- Bottle Collecting for Ice Casting
- HDPE PP Mix Cast Groups
- Plastic / Bioplastic Lightbox Preparation
- Plastic / Bioplastic Lightbox Test
- HDPE Resin Cast Polish Test
- HDPE PP Mix Cast Group
- LDPE Resin Cast #1
- HDPE Resin Cast Test
- Resin Cast Mould #3
- Resin Cast Mould #2
- Resin Cast Mould #1
- HDPE Mix Casts #6
- ► March (7)
- ► February (26)
- HDPE Mix Cast #4
- The Great Winter Nurdle Hunt
- HDPE Mix Cast #3
- Visit to the Royal Society
- HDPE & LDPE Ice Cast #2
- HDPE & LDPE Ice Cast #1
- HDPE Mix Cast #2
- HDPE Mix Cast #1
- LDPE Pellet Ice Cast #1
- LDPE Bag Ice Cast #1
- HDPE & LDPE Casts & Coral
- HDPE Bottle Cast #1
- LDPE Bag Cast #2
- Third Floor Scale Model
- HDPE Pellet Cast #5
- HDPE Pellet Cast #4
- HDPE Pellet Cast #3
- Degree Show Planning at Futuro House
- Craftsmanship Alone is Not Enough
- Making Nature at the Wellcome Collection
- HDPE Pellet Cast #2
- Lego Serious Play
- LDPE Bag Cast #1 & Coral
- HDPE Pellet Cast & Coral #1
- LDPE Bag Cast #1
- HDPE Pellet Cast #1
- ► January (8)
- ► 2016 (60)
- ▼ 2015 (18)