The Herbarium of the Institute of Dendrology PAS (KOR) is a scientific collection of woody plant specimens which currently includes over 55 thousand sheets. The collection dates back to 1952 and since that time, it has been extended by trees and shrubs collected by the Institute's employees or specimens received from other scientific centres as part of exchange. The KOR collection mostly includes woody plants from Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea basin, in particular its eastern and western parts (Greece, Turkey, Spain, and North Africa), and South West Asia. The Herbarium has thousands of specimens representing trees and shrubs cultivated in Polish dendrological collections and botanical gardens. 
A special place in the colllection is occupeid by plant species belonging to the Rubus genus (brambles), for which the Institute of Dendrology PAS is a research centre of particular significance at European scale owing to the activities pursued by a batologists’ team established and managed by Prof. Jerzy Zieliński for long years. The Herbarium collected around 10,000 herbarium sheets representing approximately 260 species of brambles, including all taxonomic items that can be found in Poland (approx. 100 species). In addition to the Rubus genus, the most numerous ones are Rosa (rose), Acer (maple) or Salix (willow).
Since 2018, the Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, has been digitalising its collections as part of a project entitled “Open Resources in the Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes - OZwRCIN” Digital resources (photographs and data) are available on https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/collectiondescription/478
Following a previous appointment, you may view our herbarium collection on site.
Curator: dr hab. Dominik Tomaszewski, prof. ID PAN [PhD Habil., Associate Professor at ID PAS]