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Science 2 February 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4072, pp. 486 - 487
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4072.486
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Plant Taxonomy: Ultraviolet Patterns of Flowers Visible as Fluorescent Patterns in Pressed Herbarium Specimens

Thomas Eisner 1, Maria Eisner 1, Peter A. Hyypio 2, Daniel Aneshansley 3, and Robert E. Silberglied 4

1 Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
2 Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University
3 Section of Neurobiology and Behavior and Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
4 Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Pressed flowers, in herbarium specimens, show visible fluorescent patterns matching the invisible ultraviolet patterns that the flowers show in life. The technique is taxonomically applicable since it makes an important but usually neglected floral character readily demonstrable.


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