Herbarium Case

Herbarium is a collection of dried and mounted plant specimen used in systematic botany. Herbarium contains a wide range of plants from many different families. The type of plants that can be used by this way is a weed shrub tree, plants ranging from fungi, lichens, mosses (bryophytes), ferns, grasses, and forbs. The specimen must have all the part of plant like root, stem leaf and flower.

In making Herbarium, student needs to collect the specimens and clean it's.Next, a pair of old boxes is already prepared with four piece of newspaper. Lay the specimen on two piece of newspaper and cover the specimen with another two pieces.After that, place the covered specimen in between a pair of old boxes. Use heavy books on the top of old boxes to make the specimen flat and dried faster. We must always check the specimens until it dried completely.

There are two aspects of preservation. The first aspect is the physical specimen. After plants have been collected, it's must be dried as soon as possible to prevent the specimens become wilt. If wilt, we face a problem to handle it's when wet ried to put the specimens in the newspapers. Other than that, the newspaper must change everyday to prevent the specimens from any infection like fungi or bacteria.

The second aspect of preservation is maintenance of the information related to the collection of each specimen. We should include the data for every specimen like it's scientific name, common name, family name, habitat, date when specimen was collected, and the location from which the specimen was collected. This data is important because it show the background of the specimens.

For every specimen, It usually take time at least 3 months before it completely dried. The dried specimen can be placed into a clear folder. It's must be kept carefully.We also can frame the specimen and covered with plastic to prevent from insect or dirt.The specimens that have already done can be reach for long time period. It can be used as a reference for our next generation