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Tag Archives: Kalman Konyves
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 10: Hoop-petticoat daffodils
By Jordan Bilsborrow and Kálmán Könyves Daffodils are very popular garden plants and an important commercial crop both as bulbs and as cut flowers. Our fascination with these very charming spring flowers has led to many cultural links in literature … Continue reading →
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MSc Plant Diversity students get extra training in the preparation of herbarium specimens
The University of Reading Herbarium (RNG) is one of the few university based herbaria still actively collecting in the UK. While the collection is of modest size, some 300,000 specimens it is particularly valuable for DNA based research due to … Continue reading →
A visit from Vic Aspland, President of the Cyclamen Society
We were very pleased to welcome Vic Aspland, President of the Cyclamen Society, to the RNG herbarium today. Vic and colleagues from the Society had chance to examine the recently mounted herbarium collections of Cyclamen colchicum from the Society expedition … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cyclamen, Kalman Konyves, RNG, Vic Aspland
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