DENDROLOGY

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: -The label should, at minimum, contain the determination (family, genus, and species), collection location (as specific as possible), the date of collection, the name of the collector(s), and the collection number. The examples below illustrate examples of what we would like your herbarium labels to look like.