Re: [Aroid-l] Off the wall question from a newbie. preserving the

From: hermine <hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2009.01.20 at 19:02:43 At 10:17 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote: Although it's not a techniquethat's available to most of us - certainly not to me - some years back I read an article about using vacuum dessication for preserving all sorts of specimens, plant and otherwise, with remarkable results. I think I recall that they combined this with cold, so that the waterjust sublimed out of the specimen. for a while, and maybe still, this was done with things likemushrooms and strawberries  and the results were...interesting. I just remember seeing ancient preserved specimens, and they all had adismal fig-like brownness to them unless they were say, preserved likeupside down corsages in some dessicant, i forgot what. silica something,who knows. large pieces of vegetable matter, I dunno. but it is worth a try,certainly. herm --=====================_248380546==.ALT----===============2372724620685821515==

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