Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens herbarium logs its millionth specimen
Advertisement As the group of tired botanists and horticulturalists drove along the dirt road in Victoria’s high country, they were almost ready to give up. These scientists from Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens had been driving along the track near Swift’s Creek all morning, scanning native vegetation on the roadside. Their quarry was the (rather accurately named) elusive cress, or Irenepharsus magicus, a rare herb-like plant that grows up to a metre tall and has elongated sprays of sm...
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