South Africa video blog - 2, part 3

Collecting the specimens is just part of the process. Each inflorescence has to be split and put into a plant press. I usually separate a few flowers for later dissection. It's much easier to do this now than after the specimen has dried.

Host root tissue needs to be collected and dried in silica gel for identification via DNA sequencing, and I dry individual flowers in silica gel for later DNA extraction and molecular studies.