Herbarium course teaches drying processes and plant conservation
Participate and learn traditional methodologies and procedures used in scientific herbaria
The activity aims to teach the processes of drying and preserving leaves and other parts of plants. Traditional methodologies and procedures used in scientific herbariums will be presented so that the techniques can be transferred to everyday life, whether for the development of a scientific herbarium or even to produce decorative objects, such as paintings with dry leaves or any other creative application .
Herbarium – from Latin herbarium – is the name used to designate a collection of plants or fungi, or part of them, organized and preserved in a technical and scientific way. Herbaria are used to study the flora or fungi of a particular region, country or continent, focusing on scientific issues in botany such as morphology, taxonomy, biogeography, history and other fields of knowledge about plants.
Through the herbaria, it is possible to access information about the biodiversity of a certain region, to know the conservation status of the species (if a plant species is at risk of extinction, for example), among other uses. In recent years, the growing interest in plants worldwide has attracted the attention of many to dried and pressed plants. Currently, there are several products on the market that use parts of dried plants. Scientific conservation techniques are the most efficient for the conservation of dried and pressed plants.
Schedule
- History of herbaria;
- how to collect plants;
- herborization processes and techniques;
- assembly of a greenhouse for drying plants;
- assembly of exsiccates (pastes with dried plants);
- how to avoid the attack of fungi and insects;
- organizing a herbarium collection;
- how to handle dry plants.
Service
- Event: herbarium breeding techniques course
- Date: May 12, 2018
- Hours: from 2 pm to 5:30 pm
- Location: School of Botany
- Address: Av. Angélica, 501, Santa Cecília, São Paulo, SP
- Number of vacancies: 15 (fifteen)
- Minimum number of participants: 8 (eight)
- Value: R$ 180.00 (includes participation in the activity and materials used to assemble botanical samples)
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