Professor Mary Gibby Archive
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is pleased to announce the completion of the cataloguing of Professor Mary Gibby’s archive! This marks an important first step in preserving...
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Towards 3 million: Meliaceae & Simaroubaceae
The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
Towards 3 million: Balanopaceae, Trigoniaceae, Dichapetalaceae, Euphroniaceae and Chrysobalanaceae
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
Towards 3 million: Astronaut lichens
The following blog was written by Natalie Zarte a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
Towards 3 million: Rubiaceae
The following blog was written by Rose Kent a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
Illustrations in the RBGE Library Collections
Alongside printed works the Library Collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh hold a vast number of illustrations in different media. Many of the illustrations are original artworks....
Towards 3 million: Typhaceae
The following blog was written by one of the digitiser’s in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
Towards 3 million: Sapindaceae
The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...
FINDING JEAN, FINDING FLORA
Hayden Lorimer teaches cultural geography and environmental humanities at University of Edinburgh. His research explores connections between landscape, memory and the geographical imagination. He is the author of...
Edinburgh Flora of Nepal Geocoin returns to the Botanics
Released in Kathmandu (Nepal) in August 2008 with the mission to return to the Botanics, the Edinburgh Flora of Nepal Geocoin has just completed a 22,000 km adventure,...