Today my Biological Diversity class at #LincolnUniversityNZ toured the Allan Herbarium at #ManaakiWhenua.
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Today my Biological Diversity class at #LincolnUniversityNZ toured the Allan Herbarium at #ManaakiWhenua. It is NZ's largest pressed plant collection, a treasure trove of hundreds of thousands of botanical marvels.
Botanist Sue Gibb talked about how the herbarium works and showed us some amazing plants, including type specimens used to describe new species, extinct plants and first collections of new weeds, and some of the plants collected on Captain Cook's voyages.
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Today my Biological Diversity class at #LincolnUniversityNZ toured the Allan Herbarium at #ManaakiWhenua. It is NZ's largest pressed plant collection, a treasure trove of hundreds of thousands of botanical marvels.
Botanist Sue Gibb talked about how the herbarium works and showed us some amazing plants, including type specimens used to describe new species, extinct plants and first collections of new weeds, and some of the plants collected on Captain Cook's voyages.
Here's a curious specimen seen today on our class tour of the Allan Herbarium today in Lincoln. It's a giant *Ruppia* seed ball collected from Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury NZ. This large seed ball likely accumulated over many decades. It is an echo of a time before 1968 when the lagoon had clear water and aquatic plants like this grew along its floor stabilising the sediment. Everything changed in the Wahine storm of 1968 and the lagoon has been murky since.
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