**Code**: [E](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125811) **Organization**: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh **Location**: Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 3000000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1839 **Taxonomic coverage**: All groups worldwide; Ericales; Gesneriaceae; Lamiaceae; Orchidaceae; Zingiberaceae; conifers; cultivated plants; bryophytes; fungi; lichens **Geographic coverage**: Southwestern and southeastern Asia, Arabia, Turkey, Bhutan, Brazil, Britain, China, Himalayas, Mediterranean, Chile, Argentina, and southern Africa **Incorporated herbaria**: Part of ACHE, CTN, EBH, EDH, EGH, KSO, GL phanerogams (except British) on permanent loan, NCE (tropical pteridophytes), NCCE., LANC (ca. 10,000arctic collections, except Greenland, Mar 2014), EGHB (2500 specimens, 1990) **Important collectors**: G. C. G. Argent, G. A. W. Arnott, J. H. Balfour, I. B. Balfour, J. Ball, F. W. Beechey, T. Bridges, F. Buchanan-Hamilton, B. L. Burtt, H. F. Comber, B. Coppins, H. Cuming, P. H. Davis, U. K. Duncan, R. Farrer, G. Forrest, J. Gillies, R. K. Greville, A. J. C. Grierson, I. C. Hedge, O. M. Hillard, W. J. Hooker, J. D. Hooker, H. H. Johnston, J. Keenan, J. H. Lace, A. A. H. Léveillé, D. G. Long, H. S. McKee, A. Menzies, A. Morrison, C. N. Page, J. Ratter, W. Roxburgh, J. Sinclair, R. Watling, G. Watt, R. Wight, P. J. B. Woods, J. Woods **Notes**: Updated Apr 2017 (incorporated herbaria EGHB). Index of collectors in the Edinburgh Herbarium, I. C. Hedge and J. M. Lamond, 1970. Administered by Board of Trustees. Non-functional phone number removed Feb 2023. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-04-12 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.