A look at the hidden side of a collection of herbariums that traces the often turbulent history of the origins of dried plants and the people who harvested them. A collection of herbaria plates is a vegetal treasure of two-fold beauty: an intrinsic one, the fruit of the fascinating adventure of the plant, its evolution, its multiple adaptations or its various properties and that of its collector, whether scientist, enthusiast, traveller or simply curious; an extrinsic one, through the splendour of the sample, the care taken by the collector and its enhancement by the curator. It is this odyssey through space and time, through myths and science, that the authors offer to the reader who does not have the good fortune to visit a herbarium, in this case that of the Zurich collections, with the motto: one sample, one story. With nearly 2.5 million preserved specimens of vascular plants, the authors could have told several thousand anecdotes, but in the end they have selected fifty for you...