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Use for: plant hunting, plant collecting

• The acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen.

Use for: plant diseases, plant pathology, phytopathology

• a branch of botany concerned with the diseases of plants

• Here are entered works on the discipline of medical botany. Works on the description and/or the cultivation of medicinal plants are entered under [Medicinal plants.]

Use for: Economic Botany

• a division of botany that deals with the utilization of plants

• a branch of biology dealing with plant life

• Artwork is always scientifically and botanically correct but not necessarily complete. More emphasis is placed on the aesthetic value of the plant or flower but without the requirement for ALL the information required by the botanists.
• Artwork is frequently in colour (on a plain background). It may also include a record of the plant growing in its natural habitat. Botanical art may form part of a project and contribute to a flora - records made of plants in a geographical location or garden.

• botanical garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups. In modern times, most botanical gardens are concerned primarily with exhibiting ornamental plants, insofar as possible in a scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Thus, the two functions are blended: eye appeal and taxonomic order.

• The Botanic Cottage originally stood at the entrance to a long lost incarnation of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), across the city on Leith Walk. It was built in 1764-5, was both the home of the principal gardener and the main entrance to the Garden. It contained a classroom where every medical student was taught botany during the height of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 2016, it was moved stone by stone across Edinburgh, and rebuilt in our Demonstration Garden, where schools, students and community groups have plots. It was rebuilt with all of the stones and timbers going back in the correct places, and finished so that it looks as good as it did 250 years ago.

Use for: Borage

• A family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Polemoniales) of wide distribution distinguished mainly by circinate inflorescence and nutlike fruit. Commonly known as the forget-me-not family.