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Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum: the oldest surviving tomato fruit and leaves. Page from the En Tibi Herbarium, 1558. Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
Plant collecting is the acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses over 5000 years ago.[1]
Herbaria are collections of preserved plants samples and their associated data for scientific purposes. The largest herbarium in the world exist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Paris, France. Plant samples in herbaria typically include a reference sheet with information about the plant and details of collection. This detailed and organized system of filing provides horticulturist and other researchers alike with a way to find information about a certain plant, and a way to add new information to an existing plant sample file.
The collection of live plant specimens from the wild, sometimes referred to as plant hunting, is an activity that has occurred for centuries. The earliest recorded evidence of plant hunting was in 1495 BC when botanists were sent to Somalia to collect incense trees for Queen Hatshepsut. The Victorian era saw a surge in plant hunting activity as botanical adventurers explored the world to find exotic plants to bring home, often at considerable personal risk. These plants usually ended up in botanical gardens or the private gardens of wealthy collectors. Prolific plant hunters in this period included William Lobb and his brother Thomas Lobb, George Forrest, Joseph Hooker, Charles Maries and Robert Fortune.
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^"A history of British gardening". BBC. Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
preserve the quality of the specimen. Plantcollecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses over 5000 years ago. Herbaria...
domestication. Over the course of his career he carried out over forty plant- and seed-collecting expeditions to locations all over the world. Many of these expeditions...
organisation of plants into taxonomic classifications. There were many dangers involved in plantcollecting expeditions, and some ended tragically. Plant hunting...
forwarded plant specimens to Carl Linnaeus, Dillenius, and Gronovius. He also assisted Linnaeus's student Pehr Kalm during his extended collecting trip to...
garden at The Grange in Benenden and collected plants across the world. His outstanding plant-collecting trips were to Japan in 1926 and South Africa in...
preserve rare plants introduced to Britain at that time, as well as being a fascinating historical account of Victorian plantcollecting. The standard...
Islands. Vallentin also collaborated with botanist Charles Henry Wright collectingplants for him, supplying him with field notes and illustrations, as well...
first plant hunter in 1840. Thomas' first collecting trip, inspired by the success of his brother William Lobb, was from 1843 to 1847, collecting in Java...
divisions. About 85–90% of all plants are flowering plants. Several projects are currently attempting to collect records on all plant species in online databases...
family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to an employee in a plant nursery or the head gardener in a large estate. The garden designer is someone...
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hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils...
was an American amateur plant collector active in New Mexico. She discovered several plant taxa and collected some 500 plant specimens. She was born to...
on the plants of the eastern United States and eastern Asia, where arboretum staff and colleagues are sourcing new material on plantcollecting expeditions...
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Historically, insect collecting has been widespread and was in the Victorian age a very popular educational hobby. Insect collecting has left traces in...
wholesale timber merchant, county councillor and magistrate and amateur plant collector in Britain and other parts of the world. Montgomrey was born in...
wild plantcollecting may also be a cause of this species population decline. Although the species population is declining there are a few plants placed...
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century, plant-collecting fever spread throughout Europe and the United States. Many species of numerous genera were introduced, some as living plants, others...
related to Plant presses. Collecting Herbarium Specimens, Botanical Research Institute of Texas Jane Mygatt (2001). "A Case for Collecting" (PDF). Iowa...
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including her work plantcollecting, co-authoring multiple publications, and creating botanical illustrations...
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