Xylarium
摘要
The xylarium is like a library, but instead of books, it contains authenticated wood specimens from all around the world. The term ‘xylarium’ comes from the Greek word xylon, which means ‘wood’ and refers to a collection of wood specimens with proven and certified accuracy. Xylarium’s main purpose is to display wood collections for scientific research, education, and other related programs. These wood collections contain taxonomic information (family genus, species) and collection details, including date, collector’s name, herbarium voucher number, country, altitude, latitude, longitude, plant habit, habitat, and other notes of the wood specimens. These collections are beneficial not only to wood anatomists, botanists, and foresters but also to other fields such as antiques, furniture restoration, forensic timber identification, history, ecology, archaeology, and climate change studies [