Other dangers lurk sometimes unrealized by curators. This specimen, which had been housed in the Harvard University Herbarium wood anatomy lab, has an unknown chemical reaction growing upon it which resembles mold.
Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection Management Policy.
National Park Service Preparing and Storing Herbarium Specimens.
Rutgers University Preservation of Herbarium Specimens.
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