DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
HERBARIUM
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Question
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For a herbarium you always have to collect the whole plant. Taking only parts of the plant is unacceptable.
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Correct
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Incorrect
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Perhaps
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Pressing: Use a press made with a pair of hardboard or plywood boards cut to the same size as the drying paper. Place some corrugated card on one board, then place two sheets of the blotting paper on top of this. Arrange your plant material on blotting paper retaining the character of the plant.
Detailed explanation-2: -herbarium sheets ( × cm) (see Figure ). Collect at least stems, leaves, and flowers or fruit of herbaceous plants, and twigs, leaves, and flowers or catkins of trees and shrubs. may cause disfiguration and deterioration of some plants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Herbarium is a store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.
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