This Utricularia gibba was gifted as a piece of art to a gardener from the Botanic Gardens Bonn for helping with growing plants that I use for research. Another specimen is hold by the Herbarium Bonn. For the Botanic Gardens Bonn, Utricularia gibba is usually a "weed" that needs to be removed regularly. Last year, some were allowed to bloom to obtain seeds. #Utricularia #Herbarium #BotanicalGarden #Bonn

First two Photos by @jahorz :)

Old #herbarium sheets come with perks and challenges. I love to figure out what is written. For this particularly hard example, I got lucky because the collection was cited with the old species name in an old paper. It's "An der Lesum bei #Vegesack" in #Bremen, Germany. Could you have deciphered it?

The label is written in German #Kurrentschrift, an old style of handwriting. The long s in "Lesum" and the V and the k in Vegesack are unusual, and the first e rather looks like an "a". But there is no alternative at the Lesum river. Johann Otto Boeckeler is known to have collected in NW Germany.

#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Ursprünglich wollte sie ja Botanik studieren: #RosaLuxemburg. Die Liebe zur Natur gab ihr immer Kraft, auch in den Jahren ihrer Haft. Ab 1913 bis 1918 legte sie ein umfängliches Herbarium an und füllte 16 Hefte. Viel zu Entdecken für alle Naturfreund:innen: https://dietzberlin.de/herbarium

#luxemburg #bookstodon #herbarium #botanik #nature #naturelover #naturliebe #buchtipp #buchgeschenk #lesetipp