# Botany

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## [About the Botany category](https://speciforum.org/t/about-the-botany-category/120)

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**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\
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Herbarium researchers are invited to discuss collections software, data, workflows, database and project issues in this Discourse category. Start a new “Topic” to elicit replies and discussion.

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## [Specify Botany Webinar: Multiple Specimens on a Sheet](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-botany-webinar-multiple-specimens-on-a-sheet/1643)

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**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-botany-webinar-multiple-specimens-on-a-sheet/1643 "2024-04-10T09:27:18Z")

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Multiple Specimens on a Sheet Date: 2024-03-04T06:00:00Z (UTC) Host: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh In botany, a common practice historically has been to mount several different specimens on a single herbarium sheet. …

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## [Combine APG IV classification within the classic Taxon tree](https://speciforum.org/t/combine-apg-iv-classification-within-the-classic-taxon-tree/1228)

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**Author:** [@Eitan](https://speciforum.org/u/Eitan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/combine-apg-iv-classification-within-the-classic-taxon-tree/1228 "2023-07-03T01:03:20Z")

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For our Botanic garden collection, I’m looking for a way to maintain a single Taxon tree for the two classification approaches - the classic and the Clade-based APG IV. The solution that I choose has three points: Lab…

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## [Best practice to handle destructive sample(s) on a preparation?](https://speciforum.org/t/best-practice-to-handle-destructive-sample-s-on-a-preparation/892)

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**Author:** [@pverley](https://speciforum.org/u/pverley)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/best-practice-to-handle-destructive-sample-s-on-a-preparation/892 "2022-12-01T09:21:20Z")

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Specify Spotlight from RGBE (16/11/2022) showed that some of you (E, DAO, RJB) are using additional preparations to keep track of destructive samples on existing preparations attached to a collection object. I’m in the …

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## [Specify Spotlight: Botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-botany-at-the-royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh/881)

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**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-botany-at-the-royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh/881 "2022-11-17T01:16:27Z")

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Special thanks to the amazing team at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh! @Ben, @ehaston, @rcubey, @rdrinkwater