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Establishment of cultivated plant collection in ZAGR Herbarium

The aim of this paper is to analyse the collection of cultivated plants housed in ZAGR Herbarium. ZAGR is an international acronym that was awarded to the Herbarium of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb in 2013 when it was founded. It is estimated that ZAGR Herbarium contains over 7500 specimens of vascular plants. Since 2014, in addition to autochthonous vascular flora, the herbarium material stored in ZAGR Herbarium also includes a collection of cultivated plants. Cultivated species represented by cultivars are of special value in the collection. An analysis showed that 148 herbarium specimens belong to the collection of 20 cultivated species represented by cultivars. Olive and grapevine have the most cultivars, that is 10 each. Fruit crops such as apple, pear, sour cherry, cherry, peach, walnut, blueberry, white and red currant, gooseberry and aronia are also represented in ZAGR Herbarium, but with a smaller number of cultivars. Wheat, barley, beans, basil, lacy phacelia, French marigold and Mexican marigold are also represented by cultivars. Cultivars were collected mostly at the experiment stations of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb (Maksimir and Jazbina), at the experiment station of the Croatian Centre for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in Donja Zelina and at the experimental estate of the Institute of Agriculture and Tourism in Poreč. The collection of cultivated plants is available at http://herbarium.agr.hr/. The above results indicate that ZAGR Herbarium provides a significant source of information on cultivated plants.

collection of cultivated plants, herbarium, ZAGR, Zagreb

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