"specimens of plants" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to physical samples or examples of different plants. Example: During our field trip, we collected specimens of plants from the rainforest to study in our biology class.
"As we were going through the forest, we were just picking up specimens of plants, reptiles, butterflies, really rather opportunistically", said Dr Bayliss.
Wallace spent four years in the Amazon and collected and mounted thousands of specimens of plants and animals, only to lose them all in a fire at sea in the Atlantic.
Over the years the institution has acquired property in areas that have numerous specimens of plants that are in danger of becoming extinct.
If all went well, we would then make brief touchdowns in isolated areas, securing specimens of plants, animals, and of the intelligent beings themselves.
GPI's goal is to digitize and provide access to type specimens of plants, fungi and algae through community-contributed JSTOR Global Plants online database (http://plants.jstor.org).jstor.org
The world's 3400 herbaria curate 350 million specimens of plants, algae, and fungi (Thiers, 2015) and represent a critical big-data resource for pressing questions related to the environment, human health, biosecurity, commerce, and the biological sciences (Beach et al., 2010).
Specimens of plant-feeding mites dated to the Triassic Period (251 million to 199.6 million years ago) are among the oldest arthropod fossils preserved in amber.
It's by far the most magnificent specimen of plant life I've ever been lucky enough to see.
Voucher specimens of the plants are deposited at the SANBI herbarium or in the Department of Toxicology Onderstepoort Veterinary Institutee, Pretoria).The plants investigated included: the root-bark of Lannea schweinfurthii (Engl).
An ingenious study looked at how old herbarium specimens of foreign plants brought to Britain long ago have changed by comparing them with today's living plants of the same species, and the results were astonishing.
The garden also maintains the outstanding herbarium of Bavaria (the Botanical State Collection [Botanische Staatssammlung]), which contains about 1,500,000 specimens of dried plants.
