Ashwini Dr Rawat makes a nice point but i differ in one aspect... I feel if you so desire, go ahead.. no harm in starting and experimenting..
Santhan ji has made a useful suggestion put moth balls in the box where you keep them and if you make it the way the teacher in the Herb link is doing 1 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhspYfnQM9M%20%20%20and%20> and 2 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgkLd5_GkQ> keeping it to letter size and storing them in plastic sleeves meant for storing letter <https://www.google.co.in/search?q=plastic+sleeves+for+paper&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=25EiVeaeD8G7uATRgIHQDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=939&bih=558>size pictures or printed papers and storing the three ring binder in cool air tight place with those moth balls one or two and I would get a pesticide company to put a couple of dots of their cream they use for silver fish, i get them to do the dots on a piece of wooden circles // coasters i dont use to stick in boxes where i have old books etc i want to protect from white fish your herbarium may be safe anyway esp in Dharamsala where its so cool most of the time Do cockroaches and those pesty grain insects attack stuff in your kitchen??then you need to protect your collection its when you come down later to the gangetic plains etc you'll have a lot more problems but I dont see why you cant start and see how it goes and how you deal with the laborious process start with your ferns and some stuff like those difficult to pin down violas you had... and the latest gentian or not specimen i would love to see these two years down the line OLD VEDIC trick of keeping palm leaf manuscripts may be worth remembering old temples bind these tightly in 100% cotton khadi dyed red... for some reason it has to be red and then hang from the ceiling ( air circulated around them is what I have been told.. but there may be other reasons I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS EXACTLY. but i do follow this following one, I learnt it from some old Ayurvedic doctors .. in spring when the leaves have just become nice lush green and juicy ie mature the bitter neem leaves twigs a few every so often in the leaves of the books keeps insects away and the leaves for some reason donot stain the leaves ..not enough tannin I guess where as some mehendi leaves left similarly stained my book horribly but for preservation this neem leaf trick has worked in a couple of different climate types including hot and humid gangetic plain... anyway... start.. all that will happen is you'll have fun some successes and have fun ( just dont pick //uproot rare stuff or what Pankaj tells you not to pick)) and who knows? may be a second career usha di On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:51 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > Ashwini Ji > Some good links are already there in Usha Di response. > However, I believe (you may agree or not) that making a herbarium is a > laborious but possible exercise, BUT maintaining it is certainly difficult > and requires use of chemicals as repellents/ insecticides/ fumigants. After > one or two years specimens are attacked by insects which is difficult to > control. Many of the herbarium specimens are destroyed because of this > despite of having even trained staff. > My opinion is to make a virtual flora (collection of photographs) of the > area rather than herbarium which is most often meant for hard core > taxonomists. You already have many quality photographs with fine details of > morphology. AND every body know that how easy is to maintain a virtual > flora (collection of digital pics). > Good luck! > DSRawat Pantnagar > > On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 9:42:10 PM UTC+5:30, ashwini wrote: >> >> This is an unusual request to all of you. I was thinking of making a >> herbarium of local plants this summer with my son and daughter. What do I >> need to make a professional herbarium–something which can be useful in >> gaining further insights later? Since I have no previous experience, please >> guide with basics such as materials, process etc. >> >> I will be grateful for any insights. >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Ashwini >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
