The team

Curator: Matt Buys  

Assistant Curator: Elizabeth Miller  

Herbarium technician: Wendy Hurren

Honorary Associate: John Hobbs  

Honorary Associate: Graeme Jane  

Loans & Visitors

Loans
The National Forestry Herbarium participates in a loan programme with herbaria listed in Index Herbariorum. Specimens are loaned for the purpose of taxonomic research. Those wishing to loan specimens from the National Forestry Herbarium must abide by the herbarium's loan conditions. Researchers are encouraged to make use of our online loan system.

Visitors
The National Forestry Herbarium is a PC 1 Containment Facility and therefore not open to the public. Access for bona fide researchers or for educational purposes is by prior arrangement with the curator only.

Hours
9am to 4:30pm Monday-Friday, closed on public holidays.

Information services

The National Forestry Herbarium provides a range of information services to the forestry community, researchers and the public. These services include:

• Identification of tree species that occur in New Zealand, especially eucalypts and conifers.
• Provision of botanical information from the herbarium database.
• Permanent storage and databasing of voucher specimens for forest biodiversity studies.
• Identification of native and exotic plants from the Bay of Plenty.

Plant identifications
The better the samples we receive, the better we can identify a plant. Good samples usually imply fertile material (i.e. more than just branches and leaves) possessing reproductive parts like cones or flowers and fruits/capsules. If you wish to have a tree identified, it is recommended that you provide us with material that contains:

• A shoot at least 20 cm long with attached leaves.
• Cones or flowers and fruit, including seeds.
• A small sample of bark.
• A description of the tree in terms of shape and height.
• Photographs of the tree, especially the bark.

Eucalypts and Pines can be particularly challenging to identify and the following set of characters will assist greatly:

Pines	Eucalypts
Shoot with needles (leaves)attached. Leaf buds. Two or three mature cones. A small piece of bark.	Flower buds. Mature seed capsules attached to shoots. Mature and juvenile leaves. Bark. Notes on whether the bark changes in colour or texture, and if so, how far up the tree.

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Plant identifications cost $65 (includng GST) per specimen. Send plant material sealed in a bag with your contact details either via mail to:
Herbarium Curator, National Forestry Herbarium, Scion, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua 3046, New Zealand

or via courier to:
Herbarium Curator, National Forestry Herbarium, Scion, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua, New Zealand

Identification keys

Interactive keys

World		Key Description
The Families of Flowering Plants		Families of flowering plants. Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards).
Gymnosperm families		Gymnosperm families. Watson & Dallwitz (2008 onwards)
Grassbase		Kew. GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. Clayton et al. (2006 onwards).
Genera of Lamiaceae		Kew. Interactive key to the genera of Lamiaceae (Davies, Bramley & Kirkup).
New Zealand
Cortaderia		SCION. Species of Cortaderia.
Paulownia		SCION. Species of Paulownia.
Pinus		SCION. Cultivated Pines of New Zealand.
Interactive keys to plants		Landcare. Intercative keys to: Coprosma, Grasses of NZ, Native orchids, Flowering plant Genera, Weed species of NZ, amongst others.
New Zealand Myrtaceae		Landcare, Scion et al. Interactive key to the most common indigenous and non-indigenous species of Myrtaceae in New Zealand..

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