Why are Botanical gardens called the living herbaria?

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Yes,Botanical Gardens are living herbaria as herbaria means keeping specimens in an herbarium sheets,as when we do so we actually need to kill the specimen but in botanical gardens they are preserved alive and a appropriate atmosphere(required to live) are maintained.
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