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Tag Archives: Plant Identification
MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 11-40 (Books and notes allowed)
The second phase of the ID test allows books and lecture notes but time remains pressing. Whatever remains of the three hours after samples 1-10 have been identified is very much needed for the last 30 samples. Some of these … Continue reading →
MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 1-10 (Closed book exam)
Close on the heels of the MSc fieldwork comes the final assessment for the MSc module BIMPB12 Diversity and Identification of Plants. This module runs over the Autumn and Spring terms and aims to give the knowledge structure needed to … Continue reading →
MSc Plant Diversity Field ID test
The MSc Plant Diversity students spent the afternoon of field day 9 walking the Lizard coast doing a field ID test. While they identified I photographed – all photos taken in the field on a sunny but windy day so … Continue reading →
Posted in Herbarium RNG, MSc Plant Diversity
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Tagged #Botanybus2015, #MScPlDiv, Field Skills, Field Skills Teaching, MSc Plant Diversity, Plant Identification
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Mystery Ophrys from Cyprus – and the problems of giving species names to orchids
Last week two intriguing photographs of an orchid from Smigies in the Akamas peninsula, Pafos, Cyprus arrived in my in-box as an identification query to RNG herbarium. The plant was growing under pine trees. The photographs were taken in March … Continue reading →
Posted in Herbarium RNG, Public Engagement with Science
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Tagged Crete, Herbarium, Ophrys, Orchid, Orchidaceae, Orchids, Plant Identification, Reading University Herbarium, RNG
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