Some plants like orchids are stored in alcohol to help maintain their unique shape.

Example of herbarium label. However herbarium sheets do not carry information on the height of a plant as plant height of different individuals of the same species may differ due to external factors. That is one way in which they. Glue the specimen onto mounting board.

Even if you want to donate a specimen without a label to a herbarium the herbarium may decline the donation. Spread leaves of specimen so that both sides are shown. We use a special kind of paper that is designed to last for a very long time and to resist changes in color and consistency of the paper.

Links to More Label Examples. Although the label template for herbarium collections NPS Form 10-512 in ICMS meets NPS standards for museum curation it does not include adequate information for a standard herbarium label fig. Write an information label.

Normally the label would include taxonomic information--the family genus and species--however an herbarium specimen. Very large samples can be spread on two separate sheets and binded together with staples. Therefore a specimen without collectors number the collectors number should be marked as sn.

If other annotations are present it is best to position the new one above the most recent unless it will not fit or the most recent is in a very. Our preferred method is to receive each pressed and dried plant in the newspaper it was dried in with the label or the label information on a separate sheet. This function reads Darwin Core herbarium records template in CSV and generates a RTF file.

The typical size of a label is 3-4 in x 35-6 in 7-10 cm x 9-15 cm. The examples below illustrate examples of what we would like your herbarium labels to look like. Discuss how to use the hyper linked list of sites to investigate these two.