Whyte Thorne Botanic Garden

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  • Name

    Whyte Thorne Botanic Garden

  • Herbarium Code

    HSMC

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Douglas McMurtry, Curator, dm.whitethorn@gmail.com

  • Contact

    [27] 0 13 747 2270
    Email: dm.whitethorn@gmail.com

  • Address

    Hortus Siccus McMurtrianus
    Whyte Thorne Botanic Garden
    P.O.Box 218
    Karino 1204
    Republic of South Africa

  • Notes

    Entered Feb 2014. The herbarium moved from Johannesburg to Nelspruit area during 1998. The herbarium building, which incorporates the library and an annex for mounting and freezing of specimens at Whyte Thorne, was inaugurated in Feb 2001. The herbarium has been privately owned and funded from inception in 1967. The Herbarium, Library and Garden are open to all bona-fide botanically motivated persons. Whyte Thorne Botanic Garden has been developed on the same property, consisting of 23 hectares of which six acres comprise the laid –out garden and nursery including a 900sq m shade house & 34sq m propagation house. WTBG is a privately sponsored botanic Garden with 8300 living plant accessions, 6500 living plant orchid accessions and 11990 seed accessions. Accession numbers are cross-referenced to herbarium material where appropriate. D. McMurtry collecting numbers currently stand at 15200 of which ±7500 pressed specimens are lodged at the Johannesburg Botanic Garden Herbarium, the rest in HSMC. Duplicates in PRE and BNRH. Specimens mostly from the four northern provinces of S.Af. but include Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, St Helena, Reunion, Madagascar and Comores . Carpological Spirit material (mostly Orchidaceae) collections maintained.

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  • Number of Specimens

    8100

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • Date Founded

    1967

  • Updated

    /02/2014

  • Important Collectors

    S. Burns, J. E. Burrows, I. S. Collenette, N. R. Crouch, H. F. Glen, O. Maurin, D. M. McMurtry, S. M. Muller, L. N. Prosser, B. C. Turpin