Index Seminum 2023

The Index Seminum 2023 of the Botanical Garden of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University contains a list of 291 seed samples offered for the international exchange among botanical gardens on the world. It includes seeds collected from the wild plants in natural localities of Slovakia with a detailed description of the localities with coordinates and date of collection (92 samples) and seeds of plants grown in the Botanical Garden (25 samples) and seeds from Exposition of the Tatra Mountain Nature of the State Forests of Tatra National Park, Tatranská Lomnica (69 samples) as well as 105 seed samples from Hrádocké Arboretum of the Secondary Forestry School of Jozef Dekret Matejovie in Liptovský Hrádok. The index includes a desiderata table that can be used when ordering seeds.. URL: https://unibook.upjs.sk/

The Bergen University Gardens' Index Seminum includes separate lists for spontaneous and garden-origin accessions.This year, we offer wild-collected seeds from different localities in Norway.
We conducted the work under permits issued by the pertinent government authorities and documented our field observations in iNaturalist, these are presented in a separate project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bergen-irisbg-export.
In response to the International Convention on Biological Diversity, the seeds are supplied to other botanical gardens and research institutions on the following conditions: 1) The seeds will be used for the common good in the areas of research, education, conservation, and the development of botanical gardens.
2) Information on the material will be appropriately stored and the connection between the information and the material will be maintained.
3) If scientific publications are produced on the plant material provided, the origin of the material must be cited.In addition, the garden would expect to receive a copy of these publications.
4) Permission must be sought from the garden if the recipient seeks to commercialize either the genetic material, its products or research derived from it.Such commercialization will be subject to the conditions of a separate agreement with the country of origin.
5) In case of material becoming invasive in the recipient's region, the garden takes no responsibility for the consequences.
6) Norwegian authorities do not issue relevant phytosanitary certificates for seed exchange.Seeds will only be sent if the receiving garden has contacted their regional authority and received written proof of exemption from phytosanitary requirements.
Please note that all seeds are the result of open pollination.