How do you prepare herbarium sheets. what are the different tools you will carry while collecting plant for herbarium what information is provided on herbarium sheets?
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collect leaves of different varieties and keep it in between books for a day or so...it will be completely dried up and u can stick it with glue or cello tape and write a brief information on it...
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For the preparation of herbarium sheets, a sheet of about 29 x 41 cm is cut from chart paper. Dried specimens are mounted on the sheets with the help of glue or cellotape. A label is pasted on sheets at lower right comer.
Tools for collection are
(i) Digger (ii) Knife (iii) Scissors (iv) Vasculum
(v) Polythene hags (vi) Old newspapers (vii) Blotting papers (viii) Plant press
(ix) Field notebook (x) Magnifying glass.
Information from herbarium sheets. The label of herbarium sheets has information like scientific name of plant, family, common and English name, local name, collector’s name, place, time and date of collection.
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