#plantspecimens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plantspecimens, aggregated by home.social.
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Straits Times: Watch the making of S-E Asia’s largest digital plant database at Singapore Botanic Gardens. “At the Singapore Botanic Gardens, visitors can now watch botanists painstakingly build a digital database of some 800,000 specimens from South-east Asia and beyond. From a viewing gallery, they can observe the plants being unpacked, barcoded, placed on a conveyor belt and photographed […]
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UC San Diego: Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science . “The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. This resource — a digitized and physical collection of thousands […]
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CBS News: Project aims to digitize 2.3 million plants at California Academy of Sciences. “There is quite the photo shoot happening right now in Golden Gate Park, but instead of models, the muse of choice is a collection of leaves, branches, and dried flowers. This year, the California Academy of Sciences hopes to digitize its entire global botany collection that stretches back to the 17th […]