Scottish Crop Research Institute
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Scottish Crop Research Institute |
| Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA | |
| Tel: 01382 562731 | |
| Fax: 01382 562426 | |
| Email: mail@scri.sari.ac.uk | |
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| Latitude: 56.4564056 | |
| Longitude: -3.0693870 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
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| Ownership: | Scottish Office |
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| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| J. R. Hillman | |
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| Physical environment These need not be exacting, an approximate description of the site is all that is required. | |
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| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Brassica, Hordeum, Narcissus, Ribes, Rubus, Solanum, Vicia | |
| Special collections: | |
| Ribes, IPGRI – 860 Accessions. Narcissus, IPGRI – 201 Accessions, . Potato dihaploid, IPGRI Cultivated potato, IPGRI Commonwealth potato, IPGRI Wheat and barley, IPGRI Rubus, IPGRI – Accessions 507 Faba bean (and related species), Barley, IPGRI Accessions 1500. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | Yes |
| Research facilities: | Yes |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Higher |
| Interpretation: | No |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | No |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Specialist access by appointment only |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Fri: By appointment |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Location map | |
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