Get a rare peek inside the largest herbarium in Texas—with over a million plant specimens housed right in the UT Tower.
In brief, an herbarium is a collection of specimens of plants that have been pressed and dried, or, as we like to call them, dead flat plants. Even though an herbarium can be a huge museum collection and occupy a lot of space, without these rather uninspiring-looking specimens it is nothing. These dead flat plants are attached by gluing and often sewing onto a standard-sized piece of very high-quality, archival, heavy white cardstock 11.5" x 16.5" in size, along with the data about their collection (where, when, by whom, and details of the environment and the plant itself) and a little "packet" for loose material.
Learn more about the home of the current plant collection at UT Austin, the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Collection at biodiversity.utexas.edu/collections/plants
