Herbarium treasures.
Carrot feather| N° d'inventaire | 3110 |
| Format | 21.7 x 30.5 |
| Détails | 224 p., numerous color photographs, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Toulouse, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782366723243 |
Highlighting the hidden side of a herbarium collection that traces the often eventful stories of the origin of dried plants and the men who collected them. A collection of herbarium plates is a plant treasure with a double beauty: intrinsic, the fruit of the fascinating adventure of the plant, its evolution, its multiple adaptations or its diverse properties, and that of its collector, scientist, enthusiast, traveler or simply curious; extrinsic, through the splendor of the sample, the care taken by the collector and its enhancement by the curator.
It is this odyssey through space and time, through myths and science, that the authors offer to the reader who does not have the chance to visit a herbarium, in this case the Zurich collections, with the motto: one sample, one story. With nearly 2.5 million preserved specimens of vascular plants, the authors could have delivered several thousand anecdotes! They have finally selected fifty for you...
Highlighting the hidden side of a herbarium collection that traces the often eventful stories of the origin of dried plants and the men who collected them. A collection of herbarium plates is a plant treasure with a double beauty: intrinsic, the fruit of the fascinating adventure of the plant, its evolution, its multiple adaptations or its diverse properties, and that of its collector, scientist, enthusiast, traveler or simply curious; extrinsic, through the splendor of the sample, the care taken by the collector and its enhancement by the curator.
It is this odyssey through space and time, through myths and science, that the authors offer to the reader who does not have the chance to visit a herbarium, in this case the Zurich collections, with the motto: one sample, one story. With nearly 2.5 million preserved specimens of vascular plants, the authors could have delivered several thousand anecdotes! They have finally selected fifty for you...