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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

New high-tech home for priceless treasures

The new National Herbarium of NSW in Sydney holds a 1.4 million plant specimens. (AAP)

When Australian scientists fear another plant has become extinct, or believe they might have discovered a new one, they inevitably end up in the same place.

The National Herbarium of New South Wales holds a staggering 1.4 million plant specimens plucked from the Australian landscape over two and a half centuries.

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