The Botanical Museum houses a collection entitled ‘Spermoteca Italica’, made up of around 16,000 test tubes containing small seeds and fruits, most of which measuring 7 cm by Ø1.5 cm, and a smaller number measuring 8 x Ø0.9 cm. The specimens provide no information on location and date of collection, but it is known that they derive from exchanges between various Italian and possibly European gardens, botanical and others. The seeds preserved belong both to cultivated species for ornamental and food use, and to species growing wild in Italy.

There is also an educational collection of seeds assembled by Raffaello Sernagiotto, including both weed and cultivated species found in Italy, all dating from the period spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are three versions of this collection: the first is organized in ten 22x16x2 cm boxes that can be opened out like a scrap-book or journal, made of thick cloth-covered cardboard, coloured red; the second is organized in square cardboard boxes, dark green, measuring 27x27x10 cm; the third version consists of eighteen elongated boxes (measuring 50x15x15 cm deep), each with a label on the front bearing the binomial name, in Latin, of the first and last species contained in the box. 

There are also thirty small coloured cardboard boxes containing exotic and non-exotic fruits, some of which unknown to the general public, like the Brazilian ‘monkey pot’, Lecythis pisonis.