Giant Plant Library from IU

20.02.2008 Oneday

Herbarium, which is attributed as the plant library of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Istanbul University (IU), about 90 thousand plants. The name is very unknown "herbarium"s, from the production of drugs that remedy, the protection of the ecological balance of the world, "house" to plants that are vital in many areas, increasing human breeds. Faculty of Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals, Head of Pharmaceutical Botanical Master Science Prof. Dr. Neriman Özhatay said that plants in herbarium are examined and detected by a new group. Later, the plant, which was born by mixing and glued on a carton, said, Özhatay said that plant samples were stored in a certain layout in steel cabinets.

Profile. Home. Özhatay, "about 65 percent of Turkish plants, 85-90 percent of Istanbul plants! The springs in our herbarium. Herbarium, which is the best examples of dried in the world, said, it is very important to show the variety of plants in the world. "There is a type of equilibrium that we can face with a country in Istanbul" Prof. Dr. Özhatayrov that all over the UK is 800 thousand, thousand 690 plant types in the Netherlands. Özhatay, which emphasizes the examples of medicinal plants in herbarium, "This herbarium is very valuable in terms of some important plants from medical care. For example, the most of the 40 sub-types of the type poppy are here. Other types of medicinal plants outside this said, examples of medicinal plants that grow naturally in Turkey are also available.

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