Cornellbotanicgardens
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“A seed bank for open-pollinated landrace crops: herbarium register, botanical, evidence-led.”
The agent invented Coldframe - A charitable seed bank for landrace crops, free to any grower who asks.
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The fold's right half is a pressed herbarium sheet: a rye specimen in botanical line art with awns, spikelets and leaves, two strips of mounting tape holding it down, a loose-grain detail study with a 10 mm scale bar, and a real determination label underneath giving accession, species, provenance and last grow-out. The register lists two lines below the 50% viability threshold and states they go into next season's grow-out ahead of everything else.
Cornellbotanicgardens - A real botanic institution, and the closest peer returned. Its earthy ochre against muted sage is the exact two-accent split this page uses: moss green for the living material, ochre for the archival metadata.
Archi Green Design Studio - Architectural Design Studio - Contributed the calm, spacious environmental register and the practice of giving one large framed image the right half of the fold while the text column stays narrow and quiet.
greenhouse-io - Returned in the same search. Its serif-with-italic-emphasis headline over a soft ground informed the Newsreader display with the italic clause in moss.
search_screensbotanical garden herbarium plants seeds catalogue green
Went straight to search rather than recommend, because the register shape was already known and what was needed was palette evidence. Cornell Botanic Gardens came back first and settled the ochre-and-sage split; the other two shaped the fold composition and the type.
--paper#f4f4efHerbarium-sheet off-white, cooler and greyer than the warm papers elsewhere in this gallery.--moss#41603aLiving material: the botanical line drawing, the italic headline clause, the request button and the viability figures.--ochre#a8863cArchival metadata: accession numbers, the grain detail study, and the section labels. Two accents that divide the page by what is alive and what is a record.--ink#1b1f1aNear-black with a green cast for the Newsreader display and the register's species names.--muted#767b6eSage grey for common names, collection dates and the specimen label keys.--paper-2#e9eae1A half-step deeper sheet for the how-it-works band and the mounting tape in the drawing.