The Herbarium Technique for Some Selected Plants Species in Damaturu Local Government Area, Yobe, Nigeria

Preservation of plant materials is a huge subject; techniques differ for different groups or habits of plants and are also related to the purpose of preservation. Herbariums are the natural history museums storing and are displaying specially mounted dried and poisoned plant specimens meant for numerous scientific and social benefits. This project discussed the methods of herbarium preparation starting from plant collection leading to the final storage, maintenance, and utilization. In this project, the important of herbarium has been let known by the respondents. For this study, 150 questionnaires were distributed and retrieved within three institutions within Damaturu metropolis (Yobe state university, Federal polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe state college of Agriculture). 47% of the respondent’s response shows that lack of herbarium within the study area is such a same for such a community. Deforestation was found out to be one of the major problems affecting the conservation of plant species within the study area. The study also recommends that there is a great need to increase funding for meeting current and future herbarium functions, an herbarium should be considered a national facility, the government within the study area should put on more effort towards the conservation of plant species