It seems as though it’s a good life being a botanist. It was my second day at work today and it ended at 2:30 in the afternoon with bubbly and double helix clipping ;)
Accessions go back as far as Bishop Gunnerus in the 1760s.
Introduction Tommy Prestø with a series of slides about how the reconstruction of the herbarium happened
Cutting the double helix to open the herbarium needed two pairs of scissors, of course!
Tommy then showed examples of what can be found in the herbarium. Here is huldrestry (Usnea longissima) which can reach several metres long and was the original Xmas decoration: http://www2.artsdatabanken.no/faktaark/Faktaark136.pdf
Scopolia carniolica, a poisonous plant, found on Lade in Trondheim by Tommy, a garden escape
A specimen collected on Sverdrup’s Fram expedition in 1901!
Below are a series of pictures of my favourite potatoes which I grew until 2012-2013 when blight made it difficult to grow varieties with little resistence:
Blå (blue) Kongo (left) and Kampion
King Edward, Blå Kongo and Kampion
King Edward, Blå Kongo and Kampion
See next picture for IDs
Same as the last picture but slightly rearranged
Kampion has roundish tubers, deep eyes and the skin is dark purple. The flesh has a dark purple ring about 5-10mm under the skin. Otherwise the flesh is yellowish.
19 different potatoes cooked for my daughter’s birthday in 2012 (see the next picture for IDs)
19 different potatoes cooked for my daughter’s birthday in 2012
Kampion, Blå Kongo and Russepotet
Shetland Blue Eye, possibly the same as Catriona
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
