#herbarium — Public Fediverse posts

“It’s an obscure but wonderful thing, these hundreds of thousands of specimens documenting biodiversity of the Earth — it’s amazing.”

https://dailytarheel.com/480380/university/university-unc-duke-herbarium-merger/

#duke #herbarium #DukeHerbarium

"Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will combine their herbarium collections under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the universities announced Monday.

The arrangement ends two years of uncertainty over the fate of Duke’s 825,000-specimen herbarium collection, after the University said in February 2024 it could no longer afford to maintain the collection on its own."

https://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-university-herbarium-merges-with-unc-north-carolina-botanical-garden-in-chapel-hill-20260901

#duke #herbarium #DukeHerbarium

"UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite their herbaria under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill."

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2026/08/31/carolina-and-duke-to-combine-plant-collections/

#herbarium #duke #DukeHerbarium

We found our newest oldest #herbarium #specimen yesterday! A student came across this 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘪 collected in Germany in 1819 while they were imaging for the #GlobalTCN project.
What's the oldest specimen in your #collections?