National Herbarium of Sri Lanka
The dried plant collection at the Peradeniya Herbarium began with the collections of Alexander Moon, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens from 1818 to 1825 and Author of the book “A Catalogue of the Indigenous and Exotic Plants Growing in Ceylon” (1824). An active plant collection, Moon gathered a collection which is now mostly at the Kew Herbarium in England, only a few of his specimens remaining at PDA. His immediate successors made substantial additions to the Herbarium, but their specimens,
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- Website: https://www.botanicgardens.gov.lk/service/national-herbarium/
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The dried plant collection at the Peradeniya Herbarium began with the collections of Alexander Moon, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens from 1818 to 1825 and Author of the book “A Catalogue of the Indigenous and Exotic Plants Growing in Ceylon” (1824). An active plant collection, Moon gathered a collection which is now mostly at the Kew Herbarium in England, only a few of his specimens remaining at PDA. His immediate successors made substantial additions to the Herbarium, but their specimens,
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