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Fungi collected for the Herbarium by Charles Darwin, found stored in a sheet of newspaper from 1828

Secrets of the plant kingdom uncovered after over a century in storage

26 Sep 2012

The relocation of the Herbarium’s one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University’s state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is...

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Vulpia grass

Displaying the foundations of evolutionary thinking

01 May 2009

Collaboration between the University Herbarium and Microsoft Research Ltd has made a unique botanical collection available to a world-wide audience...

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