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Press Vegetation for a ‘Quarantine Herbarium’
Photo: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP (Getty Images)Herbaria make fascinating time capsules. In a museum or university near you, there’s probably a room with pages and pages of old, large sheets of paper, each with a dried whole plant delicately taped to it. These are the plant equivalents of dinosaur bones or taxidermied wildlife: once-living specimens preserved for…