The art of plant mounting

The Museum's plant collection has over 6 million specimens. New ones are added all the time as scientists bring back plants from their travels around the world.

Collecting is only the beginning. Before a plant can be added to the collection it has to go through a number of stages, including being dried and mounted.

Join Andrea Hallaway, who works as a herbarium technician in the botany department, as she talks us through the process.

Taken from the natural history museums website - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/plants-fungi/webcast-plantmountingvid...

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• herbarium
• natural
• history
• museum
• andrea
• hallaway
• plants
• botany
• science

[curiosidadesextrano]

I'm about to start a collection of my own so this video is very helpful ....I may use the same method for mine. Thank you for sharing.

[Demagoguery1]

Very interesting. Lots of glue-dabbing required it seems.