Special Collections

Some of the most important collections identified at ISTF to date can be listed as follows:

• The collection around the Dead Sea, collected for II. Abdülhamit’s nature museum
• Specimens collected during Boissier’s Flora Orientalis study (Boissier, E. (1875). Flora orientalis, sive, Enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae fines hucusque observatarum (Vol. 3). H. Georg.)
• Hüsnü Demiriz collection (It covers the whole of Turkey, but mostly includes samples collected from Istanbul, Erzurum and Diyarbakır)
• The collection containing geophytes such as Colchicum, Iris, Tulipa, Crocus, collected by Turhan Baytop and arranged on the basis of kinship relations.
• Murat mountain plants collection collected by Ali Çırpıcı
• Uludag plants collection collected by Mehpare and Alfred Heilbronn
• Bilgin Tözün’s Florida (USA) macroalgae collection.
• Collection of specimens from the Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden.
• A rich Crocus collection.

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