New Sydney herbarium to house Cook plants

By Rachel Gray
Updated June 4 2018 - 10:01am, first published 9:54am
A new mega-herbarium will be built in Sydney's west to re-house more than a million plants.
A new mega-herbarium will be built in Sydney's west to re-house more than a million plants.

Plants collected by Captain Cook's botanists during his 1770 voyage are among 1.4 million precious specimens to be moved from Sydney's Botanical Gardens to a new mega-herbarium in the city's west.

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