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Margot Forde Genebank

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Margot Forde Genebank

The Margot Forde Genebank at AgResearch in Palmerston North holds 70,000 seed samples from 1,600 native and exotic forage species (feed plants for animals). All the samples are carefully classified, with information on the identification of the seeds and where they came from.

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Simon Nathan, Collections of plants and animals – Collections in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12137/margot-forde-genebank (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 1 March 2009.