Tussie-mussies

Mar 27 2019

Weddings, funerals, festivals, and ceremonies — people have always had the impulse…


By Amy Weiss

Typical: Astragalus cusickii var. packardiae

Feb 27 2019

Specimen Stories

Covered in flower dissection illustrations by Rupert Barneby — we should all…


By Amy Weiss

Typical: Ceratozamia euryphyllidia, the largest type?

Oct 11 2019

Specimen Stories

Plant specimens come in all shapes and sizes, but they are usually…


By Matthew C. Pace

Typical: Christmas in the clouds

Dec 24 2019

Collectors

Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), a botanist who spent the majority of his career…


By Amy Weiss

Typical: Gymnopilus pallidus

Jun 3 2019

Specimen Stories

Some characters are altered in the drying process used to create herbarium specimens.…


By Amy Weiss

Typical: Hibiscadelphus stellatus

Mar 5 2019

Specimen Stories

This type specimen is like a postcard from Hawaii reading "Wish you…


By Amy Weiss

Understanding Interactions: Taking Botany Out of Isolation

Apr 1 2020

Focus on Science

For centuries we have viewed plants and fungi in isolation. Tried to…


By James C. Lendemer

Vanilla in Mexico

Aug 12 2023

It is in Mexico where Vanilla planifolia is said to originate, where…


By Jason Lopez

Vanilla in Puerto Rico

Aug 12 2023

Vanilla also has a long history in the Caribbean, especially in Puerto…


By Jason Lopez

Vanishing Lakes: Great Salt Lake

Apr 14 2023

Focus on Science

Great Salt Lake is a shallow, highly saline, terminal lake situated in northern…


By Matthew C. Pace

Vanishing Lakes: Salton Sea

Apr 14 2023

Focus on Science

Ingloriously described as “the biggest environmental disaster in California history,” and a…


By Matthew C. Pace

Vanishing Lakes: Tulare Lake

Apr 14 2023

Focus on Science

The California Central Valley was once a matrix of riparian grasslands and…


By Matthew C. Pace

Victorian fern collecting (and overcollecting)

Feb 15 2019

Fern collecting was one of few hobbies to transcend class and gender…


By Amy Weiss

View of Sítio Burle Marx

Jun 5 2019

Expeditions

This Calathea species was collected by botanist Helen Kennedy in Roberto Burle…


By Nicole Tarnowsky

Views from a 1910 Botanical Expedition through Western…

Apr 22 2021

Expeditions

New York Botanical Garden led around 136 botanical expeditions between 1898 and 1918.…


By Dr. Emily Sessions

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