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Leon Perrie with plant specimens

Dr Leon Perrie holding 2 boxes in Te Papa Museum’s herbarium

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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