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    • Dr Leon Perrie holding 2 boxes in Te Papa Museum’s herbarium
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 24 September 2010 Size: 390 KB Referencing Hub media

    Te Papa’s herbarium has more than 260,000 dried plant specimens, including approximately 19,000 fern specimens. Herbaria are a collection of preserved and catalogued plant specimens, mostly pressed and dried, used for teaching and research.

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      Plant collections in museums

      Museums are places or buildings where objects of historical, cultural, artistic or scientific interest are exhibited, preserved or studied. The word ‘museum’ is derived from the Greek word ‘ ...

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